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Gifts for mums all over the world
Tuesday, 12 April 2011, 3:15 pm | UNICEF
UNICEF NZ (UN Children’s Fund) Media Release 12 April 2011 Gifts for mums all over the world More >>
UNICEF NZ Concerned By Proposed Changes In Welfare
Tuesday, 22 February 2011, 4:29 pm | UNICEF
“We appreciate the references to achieving good outcomes for children and while we do accept that helping parents to become well equipped and work ready when children are three years old can be a path out of poverty, we are concerned that small children ... More >>
Addressing NZ child sex abuse a priority – UNICEF NZ
Thursday, 17 February 2011, 4:57 pm | UNICEF
Children who endure sexual abuse need police to respond in a timely and efficient way to lessen their trauma and ensure that their safety is a priority, says UNICEF NZ. UNICEF NZ was responding to the Independent Police Conduct Authority’s final ... More >>
Africa: Communities stop female genital mutilation/cutting
Monday, 14 February 2011, 3:48 pm | UNICEF
Over 6,000 communities have chosen to abandon the practice of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), according to a joint United Nations programme designed to eliminate this practice, and the number is growing. More >>
International Day of Zero Tolerance to FGM/C
Tuesday, 8 February 2011, 4:44 pm | UNICEF
NEW YORK, 6 February 2011 - All girls deserve to grow up free from harmful practices that endanger their health and well-being. But every year, three million women and girls in Africa alone face the prospect of female genital mutilation and cutting ... More >>
6,000 African communities abandon female genital mutilation
Tuesday, 8 February 2011, 4:43 pm | UNICEF
LONDON/GENEVA, 6 February 2010 – Over 6,000 communities have chosen to abandon the practice of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), according to a joint United Nations programme designed to eliminate this practice, and the number is growing. More >>
UNICEF Liberia – Measles campaign underway in Nimba County
Tuesday, 8 February 2011, 4:40 pm | UNICEF
All children in villages hosting refugees from Ivory Coast to be immunized NIMBA COUNTY, Liberia, 1 February 2011 – A measles vaccination campaign targeting all children in Nimba County, which hosts over 30,000 refugees from the Ivory Coast, ... More >>
UNICEF NZ writing award goes to Fairfax journalist
Friday, 4 February 2011, 12:52 pm | UNICEF
Wellington, 4 February 2011. -- A journalist with the Waikato Times newspaper has scooped up a UNICEF NZ award for her story about the impact of malaria in the developing world. More >>
Child malnutrition ‘of epic proportions’ in Pakistan
Friday, 28 January 2011, 12:31 pm | UNICEF
28 January 2011. -- The floodwaters that swept the length of Pakistan six months ago have abated to reveal a new humanitarian crisis: child malnutrition. “I haven’t seen levels of malnutrition this bad since the worst of the famines in Ethiopia, ... More >>
UNICEF responds to Tropical Cyclone Vania destruction
Wednesday, 26 January 2011, 10:17 am | UNICEF
Port Vila, Vanuatu 25 January, 2011 – An estimated 16,000 people, almost half of them children on the islands of Tanna and Erramango in Vanuatu’s Tafea Province face immediate hunger and lack of safe water following a tropical cyclone that destroyed ... More >>
UNICEF ready to respond to 7.2 Pakistan earthquake
Wednesday, 19 January 2011, 1:51 pm | UNICEF
Wellington, 19 January 2011. – UNICEF is standing by to respond to humanitarian needs following a 7.2 earthquake that struck south-west Pakistan early this morning. The quake is reported to have been centred in a mountainous region of Baluchistan ... More >>
Kiwis Showed Generosity This Christmas With UNICEF gifts
Wednesday, 19 January 2011, 9:58 am | UNICEF
UNICEF NZ would like to thank the thousands of Kiwis who said ‘No To Naff’ this Christmas by purchasing gifts that do good for children around the world. Over the festive season, New Zealanders bought enough water purification tablets to make over ... More >>
UNICEF emergency supplies reaching Sri Lanka flood victims
Monday, 17 January 2011, 9:54 am | UNICEF
A second consignment of UNICEF supplies has arrived in the flood-affected eastern part of Sri Lanka. These supplies are 4,961 hygiene kits (washing kits to last a family of five a month including towels, soap, toothpaste, washing powder), 10,000 ... More >>
UNICEF tackles needs of Sri Lankan flood victims
Friday, 14 January 2011, 10:48 am | UNICEF
14 January 2011. – UNICEF supplies packed into seven trucks have arrived in eastern Sri Lanka, to support the up to a million people affected by massive flooding. More >>
UNICEF responds to Sri Lanka floods
Thursday, 13 January 2011, 2:59 pm | UNICEF
12 January 2011 – UNICEF is rushing emergency supplies to eastern Sri Lanka as hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced by flooding. Water levels in some areas are two metres higher than normal – and still rising. More >>
Photo gallery - Haiti earthquake One Year On
Monday, 10 January 2011, 10:15 am | UNICEF
One year after the devastating January 12 earthquake shook their fragile lives, Haiti’s four million children are still reeling from the lingering impact of the disaster. More than 220,000 lives were lost, and countless families were separated, ... More >>
Google Inc. Grants UNICEF $4M for Polio Eradication
Thursday, 16 December 2010, 10:15 am | UNICEF
New York, NY – December 14, 2010 – The US Fund for UNICEF gratefully acknowledged receipt of a $4 million grant from Google, Inc. to address the critical fundraising gap of $14 million in UNICEF’s Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) pipeline for outbreak response. ... More >>
Warning: Income Disparities Impact on Child Wellbeing
Monday, 13 December 2010, 11:14 am | UNICEF
“The overall picture painted by the updated 2010 Children’s Social Health Monitor is deeply concerning” said Dennis McKinlay, UNICEF NZ executive director. The 2010 Children’s Social Health Monitor (CSHM) released today at the Dunedin School of ... More >>
Inequality – what’s it doing to children? Warning for NZ
Friday, 3 December 2010, 2:34 pm | UNICEF
3 Dec 2010: A report released today by UNICEF (The United Nations Children’s Fund) is a strong warning signal for New Zealand, says UNICEF NZ executive director Dennis McKinlay. More >>
The Country's First Knitted Billboard From UNICEF
Thursday, 2 December 2010, 12:13 pm | UNICEF
New Zealand's first ever knitted billboard was unveiled today by UNICEF New Zealand in Auckland's CBD. More >>
