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Apr 19, 2012

UNICEF News, Apr 19, 2012

Wapple Empowers Mobile Users to Speak up for Children With UNICEF
EIN News (press release)
Children across the world are suffering because of the rise in food prices, the economic crisis, the changing climate and increasing disasters. It shouldn't have to be like this. Visit http://speakupforchildren.unicef.org.uk to add your voice to the ...
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National media briefing: the Children's Society, Unicef, Jimmy Savile's ...
Third Sector
Aid agencies including Unicef are attempting to raise awareness of a hunger crisis that is spreading across the Sahel in western Africa. A mass auction of the late Sir Jimmy Savile's possessions is expected to raise millions when the legendary DJ's ...
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Ministers aim to make sanitation and water for all a reality, not a dream
GhanaWeb
The meeting, convened by Mr Anthony Lake, Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), comes against the backdrop of an announcement in March by UNICEF and the World Health Organization that the world had met the Millennium ...
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Selena Gomez urges fans to prevent deaths of children in West Africa
Marie Claire.co.uk
UNICEF needs £77million to respond to the needs of more than one million children at risk of severe life-threatening malnutrition, but has received less than half that amount to date. On April 3, UNICEF offices around the worldlaunched a mass social ...
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LA Laker Pau Gasol Narrates iPad book app to aid UNICEF
PadGadget
“This story is about helping children overcome life's greatest challenges, which is what UNICEF does every day in its work throughout the world,” said Gasol. “Together, we can help change the lives of so many children who need our support to survive ...
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PadGadget
Head of Ambassador Relations
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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UCF celebrates Earth Month
Central Florida Future
Other events that took place earlier during Earth Month include World Water Day, an event put on by UNICEF that promoted awareness of global water pollution, and the UCF Community Summit on Environment and Global Climate Change, an event put on by ...
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Amitabh Bachchan conferred Polio Eradication Champion award
NetIndian
Bollywood megastar and UNICEF polio ambassador Amitabh Bachchan rreceiving the Polio Eradication Champion award by Rotary International for his support to India's Polio Eradication Programme, in Mumbai on April 19, 2012. Bollywood megastar and United ...
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Anders Breivik's Norway massacre partly inspired by 'English mentor', trial ...
San Francisco Luxury News
This journey to West Africa required him to pose as an aid worker with Unicefand later as a “blood diamond” dealer. There Breivik met a Serb ultra-nationalist who was hiding from international justice. “From our point of view, he was a military hero, ...
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Norway's mass killer complains he is being ridiculed - Today's World News!
San Francisco Luxury News
When he went to Liberia in 2001 to meet a Serbian nationalist he had two covers, he said on Wednesday, one as a worker for UNICEF, the UN children's organisation, and the other as a blood-diamond smuggler carrying a magnifying glass.
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Act To Prevent Deaths of Children
Forward
Most Vulnerable: On Holocaust Remembrance Day, let's resolve to do what we can to prevent the deaths of thousands of children around the world. By Caryl Stern Two images of children have stayed with me throughout my life. One is a photograph of little ...
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Forward
Humanitarian Organization That Pioneered Protections For US Children and ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Raybould attributes his stints around the world as helping to hone his innovative management style. An English native, Raybould spent his formative years in Africa and Australia before returning to the British Isles to complete his education.
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ROBBIE WILLIAMS: Soccer Aid line-up
Xperedon Charity News
Some of the recent confirmations for the celebrity charity fixture in Manchester, supporting UNICEF, include Mark Owen of Take That. Others joining the line-up include Harry Potter actor Jason Isaacs, comedian John Bishop, ...
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UN SG Ban Warns Of 'Cascading Crisis' Of Drought, Conflict In African Sahel
Kaiser Family Foundation
Speaking to the Luxembourg Parliament on Tuesday, Ban said, "I call upon theworld to respond. Simply put, we must do more -- and do it quickly" (4/17). On Wednesday, UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake appeared on BBCWorld News to discuss the ...
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Haiti health workers to give cholera vaccine
Las Vegas Sun
At the time, there was only one cholera vaccine on the global market. A second, Shanchol, wasn't approved by the World Health Organization until September. The approval was needed so UN agencies like UNICEF could procure the vaccine.
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Liga - Clasico A to Z: Abidal to Zidane
Yahoo! Eurosport UK
Even a world record £37 million fee was never going to placate his former fans, who greeted his return to Catalonia by pelting various objects at him, including that infamous pig's head. G - Giovanni: The highlight of the Brazilian striker's three ...
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Yahoo! Eurosport UK
UN MUST STOP BARBARISM IN THE MIDDLE EAST By Aie Zi Guo
Abugidainfo
The Middle East is the epicentre of the world's great religions: Christianity, Islam and Judaism. Great mathematicians, scientist and engineers originated from this part of the world. The pyramids of Egypt, the Walls of Babylon, the lamps of Aladdin, ...
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Anders Breivik prefers execution over 'pathetic' jail term
The Guardian
Arriving in the country, he says he told the Liberian authorities that he was working for the children's charity Unicef. When he met two bodyguards who were to protect him during his stay, he told them he was there to buy blood diamonds, he claimed.
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The Guardian
Oil Wealth Brings Only Superficial Change
AllAfrica.com
When Chad's oil project came on-stream in 2003 an agreement had been drawn up with the World Bank, which funded the construction of a pipeline built to Cameroon so the oil could be exported, with the express aim of trying to ensure the revenues would ...
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Red Cross raises funds for global measles initiative
FoxReno.com
Launched in 2001, the Measles Initiative is a partnership led by the American Red Cross, United Nations Foundation, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, UNICEF and the World Health Organization, which is committed to reducing measles deaths ...
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Vindication, at last, for Keys and Gray
The Guardian
How do you like them apples, Unicef! Celebrations at full-time were long and raucous. The banter was led by Chelsea's head of banter England's Brave John Terry, who whipped off his shirt and strutted about the place like an ersatz Craig Beattie.
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The Guardian
Uganda: Making Water and Sanitation a Reality for All Africans
AllAfrica.com
Later this week, the World Bank and UNICEF will co-host a high-level Ministerial Dialogue on Sanitation and Water, to take stock of the water and sanitation situation around the world. This will be a vital opportunity for governments, donors, ...
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Norway Killer Claims He 'Had English Mentor' - World News Now
San Francisco Luxury News
He claimed that he travelled to Liberia for two or three weeks in 2001 to meet a Serb extremist, inventing cover stories that he was there as a Unicef worker or to buy diamonds. Breivik described the Serb, who was not named in court, as “a military ...
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Not just good for cocktails: The secret to safe drinking water is a twist of ...
Daily Mail
By Damien Gayle With all the benefits of first world living, it is sometimes easy to forget that for billions of people getting hold of clean water to drink is still a problem. For people living in less developed countries, their only source of water ...
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Daily Mail
Simi Valley Rotarian to be honored as Champion of Change
Ventura County Star
They meet with the National Polio Committee, responsible for organizing the immunization in the country, and staff from the World Health Organization andUNICEF. They break into groups of five the next day, traveling to a small town where polio is ...
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Charity can do without tax relief
gulfnews.com
Unicef has fed the hysteria by claiming that the world's poorest children could "pay with their lives". Apparently, one Unicef benefactor has already refused to support an emergency mission because of the tax implications. Some will wonder what this ...
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Latin American babies under siege
OneNewsNow
Abortion in Brazil -- the world's most populous Roman Catholic country -- is illegal, except in cases of rape and when the mother's life is threatened. But last week the Supreme Federal Tribunal, Brazil's highest court, legalized eugenic abortions by ...
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OneNewsNow
Uganda: Ministry Commissions Study
AllAfrica.com
The study will be funded by the Ministry of Health with support from the East, Central and South African Health community, USAID, WHO, WORLD BANK,UNICEF, UNFPA-Uganda and other development partners.
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Liberia: WaterAid Releases New Report
NL-Aid
According to the latest figures released by UNICEF and the WHO, only 13% of the population has access to safe sanitation. The MDG target for Sierra Leone is for 56% to have access for improved sanitation by 2015. According to the Country Representative ...
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NL-Aid
Top news photos for April 18
News in photos
(AP Photo/Lee Jin-man) Cigdem Ozyaman of Turkey unloads her shotgun during a training session ahead of the ISSF Shooting World Cup at the Olympic shooting venue in London April 18, 2012. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth A competitor shoots flying clay targets ...
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Fears over foreign aid in budget tightening
Coastal Times
Save the Children, the aid agency that commissioned the research withUNICEF, said it proved sustained foreign aid spending by countries like Australia had made a crucial difference. The report indicated at least 4 million children's lives are being ...
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Expert says fight against malaria looks promising
Vaccine News Daily (blog)
The partnership was launched in 1998 by the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the World Bank and the United Nations Development Program. The Roll Back Malaria Partnership has been critical in an effort to distribute bed netting treated with a mild...
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Vaccine News Daily (blog)
Hunger in Yemen
The Economist
In March, the UN's World Food Programme (WFP) reported that levels of food insecurity in Yemen had doubled since 2009. Today 5m people go hungry so often that it affects their long-term health. According to Unicef, the WFP's counterpart for children, ...
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The Economist
From the Global Classroom
Orangeville Citizen
A frightening book, “Damn Nations” (Samantha Nutt, 2011) is an account of the author's experiences as a doctor with the United Nations, Care International and UNICEF. It focuses on “greed, guns, armies and aid”, a frightening account of atrocities ...
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BBC News - Unicef chief: Sahel needs help
Unicef director Anthony Lake says the Sahel region has never been in more danger of mass starvation as his organisation tries to fight "donor fatigue" after years ...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-17765214
NZ aid money stolen from UNICEF
UNICEF first discovered irregularities via its internal financial oversight system in 2010 ... The governments said such fraud was effectively stealing money from some of the world's poorest people. ... Police judgment poor in NewsCorp case ...
www.stuff.co.nz/world/.../NZ-aid-money-stolen-from-UNICE...
draws warm - The Hong Kong Committee for UNICEF / UNICEF News
During the event, UNICEF HK Ambassador, World Cycling Champion Wong Kam ... As stated in UNICEF's report The State of the World's Children 2012 earlier ...
www.unicef.org.hk/news-media/unicef-news
Fiji Floods: UNICEF helps re-equip flood-affected schools | Scoop ...
UNICEF is working with partners to re-equip schools and welcome back children whose lives ... Scoop - Independent News · Contact Newsagent Login.World ...
www.scoop.co.nz/.../fiji-floods-unicef-helps-re-equip-flood-af...
Lucy Liu Discusses 'Southland' Emmy Buzz, UNICEF ... - ABCNews
World. Politics. Brian Ross Investigates. Health. Entertainment. Money. Tech. Travel. Extreme ...
abcnews.go.com/.../lucy-liu-discusses-southland-emmy-buzz-u...
UNICEF World Ball to Walkathons! | Lights Camera Action | Houston ...
Houston South Asian Lifestyle Society News. You are here: Home » Society with Ruchi » UNICEF World Ball to Walkathons! Top Image ...
www.rmrmedia.com/blog/.../unicef-world-ball-to-walkathons/
Twenty million Pak children not in school: UNICEF [newKerala.com ...
Read the full story of Twenty million Pak children not in school: UNICEF - Islamabad, Apr 7: Around 20 million children in ... Read other world-newsstories ...
www.newkerala.com/news/newsplus/worldnews-3367.html
VIDEO: Unicef chief: Sahel needs help - World - Top News Today
Unicef director Anthony Lake says the Sahel region has never been in more danger of mass starvation as his organisation tries to fight.
world.topnewstoday.org/africa/article/2051473/
UNICEF, UNICEF News
Everything you need to know about UNICEF: news, reviews, in-depth analysis,... Emergency Fund or UNICEF is the largest organisation in the world for the...
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Twitter / RFE/RL News: World Bank, UNICEF Say Und ...
World Bank, UNICEF Say Undernourishment Claims Lives Of Tajik Youngsters http://t.co/SVqu05K7.
twitter.com/RFE_RLNEWS/status/187118098682359808
National media briefing: the Children's Society, Unicef, Jimmy Savile's charity and theWorld Wildlife Fund
Read 'National media briefing: the Children's Society, Unicef, Jimmy Savile's charity and the World Wildlife Fund' and the latest charity & voluntary sectornews ...
www.thirdsector.co.uk/.../national-media-briefing-childrens-so...
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