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UNICEF News, Mar 22, 2012

UNICEF: On World Water Day, poor rural people missing out
UNICEF (press release)
by date by subject by region NEW YORK, 22 March 2012 – As the worldcommemorates World Water Day, UNICEF called on governments to pay particular attention to those who are being left behind in their countries' progress, especially with regard to access ...
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UNICEF's Spirit of Compassion Award for Nidhika and Pershant Mehta
Indo American News
The award, instituted in 2005, will be presented to them at the UNICEF WorldBall to be held at the Hilton Americas on Saturday, March 31, 2012. The accolade is UNICEF's way of expressing appreciation to the Mehtas as philanthropic leaders who opened ...
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American Airlines Flight Attendants Visit Dominican Republic To Witness ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The 2011 collections are also supporting UNICEF's HIV/AIDS programs in Latin America and other lifesaving programs for children around the world. "We are very proud of our 17-year partnership with American Airlines," said Caryl Stern, President and CEO ...
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Millenium Development Goals: the clean water targets have been met
The Guardian (blog)
Today is world water day. It comes in a week when UNICEF andWorld Health Organisation (WHO) announced that the millenium development goal on drinking water access has been met ahead of time. The goal for clean is described in detail on the United ...
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The Guardian (blog)
Podcast #55: What does achieving the MDG target on water mean for schoolchildren?
UNICEF (press release)
By Pi James NEW YORK, USA, 21 March – UNICEF and theWorld Health Organization recently announced that the world had met the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target of halving the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water, ...
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UNICEF (press release)
Chicago Restaurants Raise Money for UNICEF Tap Project, Clean Water
MyFox Chicago
Chicago - This week 80 Chicago restaurants are banding together for a very important cause: to bring clean, safe water to the world's children. It's all part of a special fundraiser with UNICEF that includes a benefit bash Friday night at the Centered ...
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Focus on water, sanitation and hygiene improves child health and nutrition in ...
UNICEF (press release)
By David Youngmeyer World Water Day, commemorated each year on 22 March, focuses attention on the importance of freshwater to sustainable development. World Water Day 2012 emphasizes the importance of water to global food security.
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UNICEF (press release)
Tell Congress to support clean water
Iowa City Press Citizen
Recently, the Joint Monitoring Program report, produced by the World Health Organization and UNICEF, announced that the Millennium Development Goal to halve the number of people who do not have access to safe drinking water has already been met, ...
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Human trafficking doctor uncovers modern day sex trade
Corpus Christi Caller Times
By UNICEF statistics, somewhere in the world a child is trafficked every 30 seconds. Yet definitions and statistics often do little to trigger the need to do something until there is a human face put with them. Kansas City filmmakers who have captured ...
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In Brief: Myanmar to immunize 6.4 million against measles
IRINnews.org
YANGON, 22 March 2012 (IRIN) - The Burmese Ministry of Health, in collaboration with the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization, have launched a measles vaccination campaign to reach 6.4 million under-five children nationwide.
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World Water Day: Sudan celebrates World Water Day
Afrique en Ligue
The Water and Environmental Sanitation Department of the Public Water Corporation was joined by UNICEF and other partners at different WWD events across the country. “Our health is in our hands and each member of the community must unite to overcome ...
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Climate Change Advisor
Third Sector
UNICEF is the world's leading organisation working for children and their rights in more than 190 countries. As champion of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, UNICEF works to help every child realise their full potential.
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Sutter Memorial garners 'Baby Friendly' status
Sacramento Bee
The World Health Organization and UNICEF created the label for sites that follow certain practices to promote breast-feeding. Baby Friendly practices include training all staff members on lactation, helping mothers begin breast-feeding within an hour ...
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Africa: UN-Backed Campaign Aims to Vaccinate 111 Million Children Against ...
AllAfrica.com
In a news release today, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) described the campaign as entering a "decisive phase." "Either we succeed in eradicating polio today or this initiative will falter tomorrow and polio will ...
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Aid workers count humanitarian cost of conflict in Syria
The Guardian
Technical staff from various UN agencies, including the World Food Programme (WFP), the UN Children's Fund (Unicef) and the World Health Organisation(WHO), as well as from the Organisation for Islamic Cooperation (OIC) are accompanying the mission, ...
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Young People From London 2012's International Inspiration Programme Set to Run ...
PR Web (press release)
The programme is delivered around the world by the British Council, UNICEF and UK Sport and it is enriching the lives of more than 12 million children in 20 countries around the world through high-quality and inclusive physical education, ...
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PR Web (press release)
Three Firms Top Inspiring Ideas
AllAfrica.com
"We work with NGOs like UNICEF, World Vision to reach out to schoolgirls in rural areas," he says. Menstrual-related absenteeism and high school drop-out rate among rural schoolgirls is a common problem. The pads are working to reduce these rates.
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Montreal researchers repel mortality in Malian mothers
PhysOrg.com (press release)
UNICEF, UNFPA, World Bank (2010). Trends in Maternal Mortality: 1990 to 2008. Estimates developed by WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA and The World Bank. Geneva: World Health Organization This PHYSorg Science News Wire page contains a press release issued by an ...
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PhysOrg.com (press release)
Montreal Researchers Repel Mortality in Malian Mothers
Newswise (press release)
*World Health Organization,. UNICEF, UNFPA, World Bank (2010). Trends in Maternal Mortality: 1990 to 2008. Estimates developed by WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA and The World Bank. Geneva: World Health Organization.
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Today is the World Water Day
publics.bg
About 6.1 billion people had access to safe drinking water at the end of 2010, meeting one of the UN's Millennium Development Goals set in 2000, Unicef and the World Health Organization said in a report today. The number increased by 2 billion people ...
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Disaster is stalking children in the Sahel
UNICEF Australia (press release)
UNICEF is the driving force that helps build a world where the rights of every child are realised. It has the global authority to influence decision-makers, and the variety of partners at grassroots level to turn the most innovative ideas into reality.
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Child Labour in the Country
AllAfrica.com
According to the Unicef World Fit for Children Report of 2002-2006, Zimbabwe is experiencing a complex interplay of structural chronic poverty combined with transient poverty. This is attributed to the unprecedented economic challenges that the country ...
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Water for Life Festival raising awareness with city-wide events
Edmonton Examiner
He cites UNICEF and World Health Organization data showing two million children die annually due to lack of clean water in their communities. “Edmonton's got a million people, Calgary's got a million people. Imagine a year from now there's two million ...
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UNICEF Australia
Stay up to date on what UNICEF is doing around the world to help children survive to adulthood. A food crisis is looming in the Sahel. More than a million children could face life-threatening malnutrition if we don't take immediate action.
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New Polio Campaign Underway
AllAfrica.com
The disclosure was made Wednesday, March 21, 2012, by World Health Organization's (WHO) Medical/Surveillance Officer on Expended Program on Immunization, Dr. Sei Parwon, when he addressed a press conference at the headquarters of the United Nations ...
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World Water Week 2012
About - Cities & Towns
By Pamela Skillings, About.com Guide March 21, 2012 That means you can pay just $1 for your glass of water when you're dining out in New York City and help UNICEF provide safe, clean drinking water for children around the world.
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About - Cities & Towns
Every drop counts
UNICEF Australia (blog)
By Jade Bae, UNICEF Australia Communications Intern Here's a tried and tested question. What is the one thing that you couldn't live without? Let me guess. Your iPhone/car/ TV/internet /money… or, you know, personally speaking, food.
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Searching for Safe Water in New York City on World Water Day
UN Dispatch
Last month, UNICEF's Joint Monitoring Programme reported, “between 1990 and 2008 an estimated 1.77 billion people gained access to improved sources of drinking water.” The bad news is many of these sources still require a long walk, a significant ...
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We Are Water Foundation Warns on World Water Day "We Eat More Water Than We Drink"
Energy Digital (press release)
The money raised by the Foundation through the application will fund the four aid projects that the foundation is carrying out in the world in 2012, with organisations such as Unicef, the Vicente Ferrer Foundation, Oxfam and Education Without Borders.
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Agencies to vaccinate millions to avert “polio explosion” in Africa
Reuters AlertNet
We will then see millions of children being paralyzed by this disease”, said David Gressly, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) regional director for West and Central Africa. Experts say the best way to fight the disease is by immunising as many children ...
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On World Water Day, the We Are Water Foundation Warns That "We eat More Water...
Energy Digital (press release)
The "We Eat Water" application has a symbolic cost of 0.79 Euros (almost 4 AED) that is designated to funding the 4 aid projects that the We Are Water Foundation has put into place this 2012 in collaboration with organizations likeUnicef, ...
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Water, a problematic source in Africa despite abundance
The Africa Report
This was re-emphasised during the 6th World Water Forum, which took place in Marseille between March 12 and 17. According to the World Bank andUnicef's biennale 2012 update on the Progress on drinking water and sanitation, 40 percent of the 783 ...
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Prime Minister Raila boosts Kenyauner-20 women's team
The Star
We will continue supporting the girls to see them in the World Cup,” said Raila. The team got a boost from cooperates like Coca-Cola, AAR, UNICEF, Safaricom and Airtel for their World Cup campaign. According to the head coach, Florence Adhiambo, ...
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'Lack of transparency causing sweet water decline'
Daily Star Online
DPHE, Unicef, World Bank, Bangladesh WASH Alliance, Japan International Cooperation Agency, Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies and NGO Forum for Public Health jointly organised the seminar, says a press release.
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Oh precious clean drinking water, where art thou?
PakistanToday.com.pk
A national survey jointly conducted by the Aga Khan University (AKU) in collaboration with United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) under the title National Nutrition Survey (NNS) 2011 reveals that despite being one of the important agricultural ...
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PakistanToday.com.pk
World Water Day 2012 - UNICEF Australia
World Water Day 2012. 19/03/12 Print this article | Email this article to a friend. A small child fills a collapsible jerrycan with safe water at one of several outdoor...
www.unicef.org.au/Discover/.../World-Water-Day-2012.aspx
Nice overview of UNICEF's State of World's Children | Global Health ...
Global Health Hub: news and blogosphere aggregator · Home · Infectious Disease ... Nice overview of UNICEF's State of World's Children. By Humanosphere ...
www.globalhealthhub.org/.../nice-overview-of-unicefs-state-of...
UNICEF Malaysia - Recent news - World Water Day 2012
Working to provide children and their families with access to clean and affordable water is a priority for UNICEF.
www.unicef.org/.../news_unicefaction-worldwaterday2012.ht...
World Water Week: UNICEF Tap Project Allows You To Pay $1 Extra At ...
The next time you're automatically handed that glass of water in your favorite restaurant, UNICEF urges you to realize how fortunate you are -- and then do...
www.huffingtonpost.com/.../world-water-week-tap_n_136826...
1.5 million children face Sahel hunger disaster: UNICEF | NTN24 ...
NEWS/world. 1.5 million children face Sahel hunger disaster: UNICEF ... and 1.5 million children may suffer from severe acute malnutrition this year,"UNICEF ...
www.ntn24.com/news/.../15-million-children-face-sahel-1157...
Disaster stalking children in Africa's drought ... - Morocco World News
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is warning that more than a million children below the age of five in the Sahel are facing a disaster amid the...
moroccoworldnews.com/2012/03/disaster...in.../31645
UNICEF Launches New Campaign To Bring Clean ... - Yahoo! News
Watch the video 'UNICEF Launches New Campaign To Bring Clean Water To Children Around The World' on Yahoo! News.
news.yahoo.com/.../unicef-launches-new-campaign-to-bring-c...
Unicef launches 2012 state of world children report in ... - Youtube
Automatically uploaded video [VIDEO] Unicef launches 2012 state of world ...Unicef launches 2012 state of world children report in Nigeria - Press TVNews ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuKeba3McSo
BERNAMA - UNICEF Concerned Over Impact Of Violence On Children
JERUSALEM, March 14 (BERNAMA-NNN-WAFA) -- The United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF) expressed deep concern over the impact on ...
www.bernama.com/bernama/v6/newsworld.php?id=652062
Red Rooster Hosts UNICEF Tap Water Project
Today marks the kickoff for World Water Week, where UNICEF's Tap Project is put into full ... For more Red Rooster news, follow me on Twitter (@MarcusCooks) ...
marcussamuelsson.com/.../red-rooster-hosts-unicef-tap-water-p...
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