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UNICEF News, May 10, 2012

Barilla Sets Guinness World Record
MarketWatch (press release)
... the world's number one pasta brand, has captured the Guinness WorldRecord for the biggest pasta box. Unveiled in Istanbul, the boxes weigh a half metric ton and benefit the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) to help enroll underprivileged ...
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World's biggest boxes of pasta on sale in Turkey
Reuters
All revenues from the sales of the massive cartons will go to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). Turkey consumes 450000 tons of pasta per year, and is the world's No. 5 producer. (Reporting by Steve Scherer, editing by Paul Casciato)
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FCB and UNICEF strengthen their partnership for children in four countries
UNICEF (press release)
UNICEF works in 190 countries and territories to help children survive and thrive, from early childhood through adolescence. The world's largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and ...
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International adoptions plummet globally
Boston.com
HANOI, Vietnam—The number of international adoptions has plummeted to its lowest point in 15 years, a steep decline attributed largely to crackdowns against baby-selling, a sputtering world economy and efforts by countries to place more children with ...
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International adoptions drop amid fraud crackdowns
Salt Lake Tribune
By MARGIE MASON | AP Hanoi, Vietnam • The number of international adoptions has fallen to its lowest point in 15 years, a steep decline attributed largely to crackdowns against baby-selling, a sputtering world economy and efforts by countries to place ...
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Announcing Gadling's Facebook + Delta SkyMiles + Unicef Challenge
Gadling
Here's more about UNICEF: For more than 60 years, UNICEF has been theworld's leading international children's organization, working in over 150 countries to address the ongoing issues that affect why kids are dying.UNICEF provides lifesaving ...
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Most foreign money given to Canadian charities doesn't go to environmental ...
National Post
Second was World Vision Canada, which has reported $89 million in foreign income. World Vision Canada says the vast majority of that money comes from gift-in-kind donations from UN organizations and international corporations with branches in Canada.
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National Post
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UNICEF Australia
Stay up to date on what UNICEF is doing around the world to help children survive to adulthood. Carrie Bickmore has been announced as a UNICEFAmbassador, adding to her roles as television presenter of Channel 10's The Project and mother to son Oliver.
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A WORLD APART
Mail Tribune
The HIV rate in Tanzania in 2009 was 5.6 percent, and an estimated 13000 children were orphans because of HIV/AIDS, according to UNICEF. The HIV/AIDS rate in the US at that time, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, ...
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Healthy Women And Healthy Kids
Huffington Post (blog)
We bear a collective responsibility for the survival of the world's children. Today, the US government, India and Ethiopia, along with UNICEF, are mobilizing to end preventable child deaths through the Child Survival: Call to Action.
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Unite against child abuse, believe in zero
Bizcommunity.com
"South Africa's levels of violence against children are among the highest in theworld. Tens of thousands of children are victims of abuse, neglect and exploitation every year - and offenders often go unpunished," says Aida Girma,UNICEF Representative ...
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Dear G8 leaders,
Huffington Post
About one third of children in the developing world are stunted, according toUNICEF and poor nutrition is the underlying cause of about 35 percent of all deaths of children under the age of five each year. Another 200 million children are chronically ...
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In pictures: How to net mosquitoes in DR Congo
BBC News
Congolese villagers line up to collect the mosquito bed nets using vouchers given out by Unicef, the World Bank and USAid. Insecticide-treated nets are highly effective in the prevention of malaria, especially among children under five, ...
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BBC News
'Plantosaurus Rex' opens at Conservatory of Flowers
San Francisco Examiner
Ishmael Beah, author of “A Long Way Gone” and UNICEFadvocate for children affected by war, tells his story of abduction and war in Sierra Leone and discusses how we can stop the use of children as a tool of war. [6 pm, World Affairs Council, ...
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San Francisco Examiner
International adoptions plummet globally
Monterey County Herald
The number of international adoptions has plummeted to its lowest point in 15 years, a steep decline attributed largely to crackdowns against baby-selling, a sputtering world economy and efforts by countries to place more children with domestic ...
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Challenge from the Sahel
gulfnews.com
Anthony Lake, head of Unicef, has said that the drought-stricken region is today threatened by famine as never before. A WorldBank consultant, Serge Michailof, has estimated that rural development in the Sahel would require an investment of €1.5 ...
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gulfnews.com
International adoptions at lowest point in 15 years
USA TODAY
The drop is being attributed to crackdowns against baby selling, a struggling world economy and moves by countries to place more children with domestic families, according to the AP. Some adoption advocates blame the drop on the Hague Adoption ...
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USA TODAY
Displaced and forgotten
DAWN.com
Now Unicef says that 50 per cent of them are children. School facilities are available only at the Jalozai camp near Peshawar, where less than one-third of the Khyber IDPs are housed and where living conditions are quite bad. Many of these people were ...
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Environmental charities don't top list of foreign-funded groups
CBC.ca
The charity that reported the fourth-most foreign funding was the Canadian UNICEF Committee, with $37 million. Small minority report foreign income The CRA database shows only 1998 of the 85000 or so registered charities now active in Canada have ...
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CBC.ca
Cybercrooks take advantage of Canada's squeaky clean reputation
ITBusiness.ca
For example, Canada is No. 2 in international happiness according to the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development. UNICEF ranks Canada No. 2 in terms of quality of life. And Canada also ranks second in theworld for hosted phishing sites.
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US Hosts African Food Security Summit In Johannesburg
Leadership Newspapers
More than 90% of the world's stunted children live in Africa and Asia, and according to a January 2011 UNICEF news release, of the 24 countries that account for 80% of the world's stunting burden, seven are in the Eastern and Southern African region.
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Leadership Newspapers
The Ten Best Audrey Hepburn Movies By Farr
Huffington Post
Decades later, with her movie career behind her, Audrey's experience of near-starvation would help inspire her to become perhaps UNICEF's most visible, if not influential, ambassador. In life, one measure of character is how you enter and how you exit.
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Diana Mpyisi - Performing Arts Warrior
AllAfrica.com
I'm the founding curator of what is known as the 'Global Shapers' which is an off shoot of The World Economic Forum. The World Economic Forum seeks to involve youth in its activities so what they came up with was the Global Shapers community around the ...
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Kanu's Honorary Degree From University of Jos
AllAfrica.com
Following a distinguished performance at the 1993 U-17 World Championship in Japan where he emerged as the most valuable player of the tournament, he was signed by the Dutch team Ajax. In 1996 he was bought by the Italian team Inter-Milan ...
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10th Anniversary Cause Marketing Forum
CSRwire.com (press release)
Nonprofit speakers include executive and cause marketing representatives from US Fund for UNICEF, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, KaBoom!, ACCION,World Wildlife Fund, DoSomething.org, March of Dimes, Adopt a Clasroom and others. A behind-the-scenes look ...
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London 2012 - Ten Local Schools Benefit From International Inspiration Project
AllAfrica.com
The project, with a vision to enrich the lives of some 12 million youths all over the world, using the power of sports, was inaugurated in 2007 in five countries including Brazil and India. Twenty countries have now signed on to the II project with ...
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Scots actor Ewan McGregor joins Twitter bandwagon
Deadline News
The Trainspotting star may have shot movies on glamorous film sets around the world, but he revealed his love of Scottish cuisine had never waned. McGregor tweeted his love of haggis within two days of signing up. McGregor tweeted his fondness of ...
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Laos villagers see farms become fairways
AFP
During a visit last week, UN agency UNICEF was carrying out a vaccination programme. Mother-of-three Nit, 30, once farmed Laos's signature sticky rice in the hills. Now she works as a cleaner at the new course for $100 a month, about the same as she ...
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AFP
New report on Education in Dadaab
Reuters AlertNet
“Through the ALP, NRC has educated hundreds of thousands of children across the world, with good results. In Kenya, we are collaborating with the Kenyan Institute of Education, Save the Children and UNICEF to condense the formal curriculum and tailor ...
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BASF SE : SAFO goal achieved: 100 million people with malnutrition now using ...
4-traders
According to World Health Organisation (WHO) and UNICEF statistics, 40% to 60% of children under 5 in developing countries have vitamin A deficiency. As the human body is unable to make its own vitamin A, the vitamin needs to be ingested with the diet.
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2011 Nutrition survey: Filipino children suffer from stunting, wasting
Philippine Information Agency
Growth parameters were measured using the global indicators and techniques of measurement being used by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). Infants aged 6-11 months were observed to suffer from wasting.
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Sleep over with friends for UNICEF and World Malaria Day | World of ...
Back to News. Charities - 07/05/2012. The 16th June marks the start of WorldMalaria Day, and UNICEF is raising awareness of the campaign by organising the ...
worldofdifference.vodafone.co.uk/news/archives/11367
UNICEF urges Mali militants to stop abusing women ... - SINA English
World > International Organizations ... UNITED NATIONS, May 1 (Xinhua) -- The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) Tuesday called for "an immediate end" ...SINA English is the English-language destination for news and information about China.
english.sina.com/world/2012/0501/463836.html
Tennis - ATP World Tour - Belgrade 2012 - UNICEF Hosts Serbia ...
UNICEF and Family Sport welcomed children to the “Novak” sports centre in Belgrade for the second annual Serbia Open Family Day, held Sunday ahead of the ...
www.atpworldtour.com/.../Belgrade-UNICEF-Hosts-Family-D...
UNICEF rescues over 700 child labourers in Salem, D'puri dists
... Nations Children\'s Fund (UNICEF) from Salem and Dharmapuri districts in... All Categories, India, World, Sports, Business, Entertainment, Technology, Others ... CNN and the CNN logo are registered marks of Cable NewsNetwork, LP ...
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NEWS - WORLD - UPS helps UNICEF deliver life‐saving ...
Watch more Canal Internacional: www.ci-webtv.com UPS helps UNICEF deliver life‐saving ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGaTx3-QQHs
UNICEF reports declining breastfeeding rates in East Asia | World ...
UNITED NATIONS, May 1 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) on Tuesday voiced alarm at the decline of breastfeeding across East Asia, ...
www.undpi.org/.../UNICEF-reports-declining-breastfeeding-ra...
Primary and secondary students learnt from Wong Kam
“I feel sad when I see more and more news about children getting injured in cycling ... UNICEF HK Ambassador, World Cycling Champion Wong Kam Po said he ...
www.unicef.org.hk/news-media/unicef-news
World's biggest boxes of pasta on sale in Turkey
... Thursday at supermarkets in Turkey, but not in the world's spaghetti capital of Italy. ... of the massive cartons will go to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). ... providing investing news, world news, business news, technology news, ...
www.reuters.com/.../us-food-pasta-idUSBRE84912520120510
New photo exhibition shows life-changing power of sport - UNICEF UK
Why give to UNICEF? Where the money ... Soccer Aid: children kick off worldrecord attempt · Children's rights and business: does the Government have a role ?
www.unicef.org.uk/.../2012-london-inspired-by-sport-rankin/
UNICEF reports declining breastfeeding rates in East Asia - Xinhua ...
UNITED NATIONS, May 1 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) on Tuesday voiced alarm at the decline of breastfeeding across East Asia, ...
news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012.../c_131562517.htm
Horn of Africa improvement: UNICEF | Audio News & Podcast | SBS ...
World News Australia Radio on Facebook · Add your comment. UNICEF says the critical food situation in the drought-hit Horn of Africa countries has improved ...
www.sbs.com.au/news/.../Horn-of-Africa-improvement-UNIC...
UNICEF - Press centre - First Mother-and-Baby Friendly Hospital in ...
European Commission donates 16.5 million Euros to UNICEF's Sahel appeal as dry season begins · UNICEF ... News note ... The world's largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good ...
www.unicef.org/media/media_62322.html
BBC News - In pictures: How to net mosquitoes in DR Congo
Week in pictures School children wait with inflatable corgi dogs prior the arrival of Queen Elizabeth II in Exeter. News photos from around the world ...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-17998845
20% of Ghanaian children not immunised – UNICEF Study ...
Ghana football, Ghana soccer, Ghana football news, scores, stats, and features from ... A research conducted by the UNICEF in 2011 in Ghana indicates that 20 per cent of ... Ghana U20 Ladies Slice Tunisia In World Cup Qualifier thumbnail ...
www.ghanasoccernet.com/20-of-ghanaian-children-not-immu...
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