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UNICEF NZ Welcomes Child Poverty Proposals
Thursday, 13 September 2012, 4:00 pm | UNICEF
UNICEF NZ (United Nations Children’s Fund) Media Release Thursday 13 September, 2012 UNICEF NZ Welcomes Child Poverty Proposals Dennis McKinlay, Executive Director of UNICEF NZ, welcomes the recent launch of the Green party campaign to encourage ... More >>
UNICEF NZ Welcomes Child Poverty Proposals
Tuesday, 28 August 2012, 12:24 pm | UNICEF
UNICEF NZ (United Nations Children’s Fund) Media Release Tuesday 28 August, 2012 UNICEF NZ Welcomes Child Poverty Proposals More >>
Fiji Takes First Steps to Ensure Better Water and Sanitation
Wednesday, 22 August 2012, 4:38 pm | UNICEF
SUVA, 17 August 2012 – It’s no secret that children will feel more comfortable and lead healthier lives if they had clean and safe water as well as proper sanitary facilities in school. More >>
UNICEF NZ Says Lessons Can Be Learnt From the Netherlands
Wednesday, 22 August 2012, 10:22 am | UNICEF
UNICEF NZ (United Children’s Fund) Media Release Wednesday 22 August, 2012 UNICEF NZ Says Lessons Can Be Learnt From the Netherlands Study “ There is much we can learn from the Netherlands about how to achieve better results for children in New ... More >>
Jonah Lomu Wants You to Live Below the Line for UNICEF NZ
Wednesday, 15 August 2012, 9:07 am | UNICEF
Jonah Lomu is getting back in the game, but this time as UNICEF NZ’s team coach for Live Below the Line . Jonah’s challenge to New Zealanders is to spend only $2.25 a day on food and drink for five days – the NZ equivalent of the extreme ... More >>
UNICEF: child maltreatment in East Asia and the Pacific
Friday, 10 August 2012, 12:10 pm | UNICEF
Unacceptable physical abuse is causing long-term damage to the lives and futures of far too many children in East Asia and the Pacific, according to a report to be released by UNICEF tomorrow. More >>
Make Breastfeeding easier for mothers, says UNICEF
Wednesday, 1 August 2012, 12:18 pm | UNICEF
New York, 1 August 2012 – On the 20th anniversary of World Breastfeeding Week, UNICEF says strong national policies supporting breastfeeding could prevent the deaths of around 1 million children under five in the developing world each year. More >>
UNICEF NZ Supports Paid Parental Leave Bill
Thursday, 26 July 2012, 4:15 pm | UNICEF
UNICEF NZ (United Children’s Fund) Media Release Thursday 26 July, 2012 UNICEF NZ Supports Paid Parental Leave Bill UNICEF NZ (UN Children’s Fund) has given its full backing to the Bill to extend paid parental leave from 14 to 26 weeks. Speaking ... More >>
Fiji Government And Youth Connect Around Rio+20 Outcomes
Monday, 23 July 2012, 11:30 am | UNICEF
Suva, Fiji, 20 July 2012 – Government officials from Fiji and youth representatives met on 18 July in Suva to connect on the outcomes of the Rio+20 Conference. It is the first time that such an official inter-generational dialogue takes place in Fiji ... More >>
Youth Connects Pacific Voices With Rio+20
Thursday, 21 June 2012, 5:47 pm | UNICEF
Suva, Fiji, 21 June 2012 – A 24 year old youth advocate from Fiji is these days promoting young people’s views at the Rio+20 climate change conference and around the world, using social networking to connect with some 2 million UNICEF Facebook ... More >>
2 Diseases are Biggest Killers of East Asia-Pacific Children
Monday, 11 June 2012, 1:07 pm | UNICEF
A new report from UNICEF has highlighted the huge child survival gap between the richest and the poorest children by focusing on pneumonia and diarrhoea – the two primary killers of children under the age of five. More >>
Government Policy Impacting Child Poverty Levels
Wednesday, 30 May 2012, 11:03 am | UNICEF
While world leaders debate austerity measures and cuts to social spending, a new UNICEF (UN Children’s Fund) report released today shows the extent of child poverty and deprivation in the world’s richest countries, including New Zealand. Report ... More >>
Govt Shirking Commitment to Reducing World Poverty – UNICEF
Friday, 25 May 2012, 1:06 pm | UNICEF
The New Zealand Government has reneged on aid commitments to the world’s poorest people, by cutting $133 million from its Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) budget over the next three years. In 2000 New Zealand stood shoulder to shoulder with 188 ... More >>
UNICEF NZ Begins Search for Aspiring Young Reporters
Wednesday, 9 May 2012, 12:00 pm | UNICEF
Wednesday 9 April 2012 UNICEF NZ Begins Search for Aspiring Young Reporters UNICEF NZ (UN Children’s Fund) and 3News are searching for five budding young reporters to write for 3Youth – a space on the 3News website dedicated to news written by ... More >>
UNICEF NZ Consult Christchurch Youth on Sustainability
Monday, 23 April 2012, 12:56 pm | UNICEF
UNICEF NZ (UN Children’s Fund), with support from the New Zealand National Commission for UNESCO, is giving young Cantabrians a chance to get their views heard by world leaders at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio+20. More >>
Fiji Floods: UNICEF helps re-equip flood-affected schools
Wednesday, 11 April 2012, 11:52 am | UNICEF
Flood-affected schools in the Western Division of Suva are to re-open today after being closed for over a week due to flood damage. UNICEF is working with partners to re-equip schools and welcome back children whose lives have been devastated by ... More >>
Fiji Floods: UNICEF responding to health and education needs
Wednesday, 11 April 2012, 11:21 am | UNICEF
Over 14,000 thousand people, including 5,000 children, have been displaced from their homes due to flooding in the Western and Central Divisions of Fiji. More >>
UNICEF NZ brings The Carrier to Film Festival
Monday, 26 March 2012, 9:57 am | UNICEF
UNICEF NZ (UN Children’s Fund) Media Release Wednesday 21 March UNICEF NZ brings The Carrier to the NZ International Documentary Edge Film Festival UNICEF NZ is bringing four children’s rights documentaries to the screen at the upcoming Documentary ... More >>
UNICEF NZ Urges Quick Response to Sahel Crisis
Wednesday, 14 March 2012, 3:14 pm | UNICEF
UNICEF NZ (UN Children’s Fund) welcomes today’s announcement of funding by the New Zealand Government for the looming food crisis in the Sahel region of West Africa, but warns that we must all act now to stop children dying as they did in the Horn ... More >>
Cities Are Failing Children, UNICEF Warns
Friday, 2 March 2012, 10:04 am | UNICEF
SUVA, 29 February 2012 – Urbanization leaves hundreds of millions of children in cities and towns excluded from vital services, UNICEF warns in The State of the World’s Children 2012: Children in an Urban World . Greater urbanization is inevitable. ... More >>
