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UN seeks to end toilet 'taboo'
Mar 22, 2013 04:45 EDT
The United Nations launched a campaign Friday to lift a deadly taboo on talking about toilets and to turn the world into an "open defecation-free zone."
DR Congo rape doctor in new campaign against violence
Mar 18, 2013 10:15 EDT
A gynaecologist renowned for his work in treating thousands of rape victims, Denis Mukwege has begun a new crusade against widespread sexual violence in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
UN pleads for Syria aid, warns of threat to region
Mar 14, 2013 06:38 EDT
The UN urged governments on Wednesday to unlock the funds it desperately needs to assist one million refugees who have fled Syria's war, which a charity said increasingly features child soldiers.
UN pleads for Syria aid, warns of threat to region
Mar 13, 2013 16:38 EDT
The UN urged governments on Wednesday to unlock the funds it desperately needs to assist one million refugees who have fled Syria's war, which a charity said increasingly features child soldiers.
Child soldiers increasingly recruited in Syria: charity
Mar 13, 2013 11:09 EDT
Children are being increasingly recruited on the frontline in Syria's war, with both sides to the conflict using boys as soldiers and even human shields, a British charity said on Wednesday.
The mother rescuing Nepal's children from behind bars
Mar 13, 2013 02:07 EDT
Inside a crumbling brick-walled compound in the heart of Kathmandu, children chatter and play hopscotch in the dust while their mothers peel vegetables and wash clothes in the pale winter sunshine.
Syria says ready to fight rebels 'for years'
Mar 12, 2013 19:06 EDT
Syria warned Tuesday it is ready to fight "for years" against rebels, as world powers worked on a new initiative to find regime officials suitable for peace talks with the opposition.
In Mali, abandoned weapons kill and maim children
Mar 12, 2013 10:42 EDT
Intrigued, Amadou picked up a discarded grenade to play with outside an earth hut in central Mali. When he threw it, it exploded and he lost all the fingers on his left hand.
Generation of Syrian children could be lost: UN
Mar 12, 2013 07:44 EDT
A whole generation of Syrian children risks being lost amid the country's spiralling civil war, the UN children's agency cautioned Tuesday, saying it was in urgent need of funds to address the crisis.
Israel ill-treatment of Palestinian minors 'systematic': UN
Mar 06, 2013 07:42 EST
The ill-treatment of Palestinian minors held within the Israeli military detention system is "widespread, systematic and institutionalised," a report by UN children's fund found.
UNICEF seeks $45 million for Mali's children
Feb 26, 2013 09:24 EST
UNICEF said Tuesday it urgently needs $45 million (34.4 million euros) to help children in conflict-stricken Mali, where the threat of violence and trafficking has spiralled, compounding a long-running food crisis.
Mali crisis disrupts education of 700,000 children: UN
Feb 24, 2013 16:40 EST
The conflict in northern Mali has disrupted the education of nearly three quarters of a million children, the United Nations Children's Fund told AFP on Sunday.
Northern Mali displaced too scared to return: ICRC
Feb 22, 2013 08:21 EST
Tens of thousands of people who fled northern Mali are too scared to return despite the French-led military intervention to root out Islamist militia there, the Red Cross said Friday.
Text messages help cholera fight in Mozambique
Feb 21, 2013 00:11 EST
As Mozambique struggles to recover from the worst flooding in more than a decade, aid agencies are pioneering the use of mobile phones to distribute aid and, they hope, cut the cost of logistics in disaster zones.
Al-Qaeda's Arabian branch calls for holy war in Mali
Feb 12, 2013 08:53 EST
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has called for jihad in Mali, a monitoring group said Tuesday, after four days of suicide attacks and guerrilla fighting in territory French-led forces reclaimed from Islamist rebels.
Al-Qaeda branch calls for holy war in Mali
Feb 12, 2013 07:40 EST
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has called for jihad in Mali, a monitoring group said Tuesday, after four days of suicide attacks and guerrilla fighting in territory French-led forces reclaimed from Islamist rebels.
Pakistan judge orders fake schools investigation
Feb 11, 2013 15:13 EST
Pakistan's top judge on Monday ordered a nationwide investigation of hundreds of "ghost" schools where teachers do nothing but draw salaries and buildings are occupied by animals.
Gunmen kill 10 in attacks on Nigeria polio clinics
Feb 08, 2013 21:54 EST
Gunmen killed at least 10 people in horrifying attacks on two Nigerian polio clinics, dealing a new blow to the campaign to wipe out the disease.
Water supplies in war-hit Syria cut by a third: UN
Feb 08, 2013 15:06 EST
Syrians living in areas affected by the nearly two-year conflict have seen their water supplies cut by one third, putting children at especially high risk of disease, the United Nations said on Friday.
Violence follows Syrian refugee women and children
Feb 05, 2013 10:25 EST
As if the war which drove them out of Syria and the hardships of exile were not enough, refugee women and children in Lebanon are facing domestic violence born of stress, deprivation and frustration.
Facts from the Wikipedia page:
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| Org type | Fund | ||
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| Acronyms | unicef | ||
| Head | Ann Veneman | ||
| Status | Active | ||
| Established | December 1946 | ||
| Website | http://www.unicef.org | ||
| Parent org | ECOSOC | ||
