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UNICEF Emergency Supplies, Experts Arrive In Haiti
Monday, 18 January 2010, 10:46 am | UNICEF
Another plane loaded with UNICEF emergency relief supplies arrived in Port-au-Prince this morning, carrying urgently needed water and sanitation supplies. This is the second load of UNICEF water and sanitation materials to arrive in Haiti in the past ... More >>
UNICEF calls for $160 million for Haiti
Sunday, 17 January 2010, 12:08 pm | UNICEF
Wellington 16 January 2010. – The UN Children’s Fund has put out a worldwide call for $160 million to support its relief operations in Haiti. The funding call is part of a wider United Nations appeal for $762 million to overcome the massive ... More >>
Schools To Open Despite Emergency
Friday, 15 January 2010, 4:20 pm | UNICEF
Widespread landslides, flash floods, damaged schools, water contamination and reports of diarrhoea, red eye, psychological trauma, coughing and the ‘flu’ were cited in the assessment conducted by the National Disaster Management Office (NDMO) More >>
Haiti: Fast Facts from UNICEF
Thursday, 14 January 2010, 12:12 pm | UNICEF
Haiti is one of the poorest countries on earth – it ranks 148 out of 179 countries on UNDP’s Human Development Index, is struggling to recover from years of violence, insecurity and instability and has a long history of being struck by one natural ... More >>
UNICEF Responding To Haiti Crisis
Thursday, 14 January 2010, 11:23 am | UNICEF
UNICEF staff in Haiti are helping survivors, with additional emergency supplies and personnel arriving on the ground. UNICEF NZ has launched a Haiti Emergency Appeal. More >>
UNICEF Gears Up Relief Efforts To Haiti
Thursday, 14 January 2010, 10:19 am | UNICEF
Despite heavy damages to its own offices in Port-au-Prince UNICEF is ready to provide immediate support to the victims of the unfolding humanitarian crisis following the earthquake that hit Haiti today. More >>
Second Tsunami In Three Years Hits Solomon Islands
Tuesday, 5 January 2010, 12:32 pm | UNICEF
UNICEF Pacific is providing immediate support to the victims of a tsunami that hit Rendova and Tetepare Islands in the Solomon Islands on 4 January.The tsunami is the second major disaster affecting the Solomon Islands since another tsunami hit the ... More >>
UNICEF: Solomon Islands Tsunami-Earthquake
Tuesday, 5 January 2010, 11:57 am | UNICEF
A UN Children’s Fund team is en route to the earthquake and tsunami-affected region of the Solomon Islands to assess immediate aid needs. A number of large earthquakes, including a 7.2 magnitude quake yesterday and a tsunami have hit the western region ... More >>
Keeping Fiji’s Children Free of Disease
Wednesday, 23 December 2009, 10:06 am | UNICEF
A week after category 2 Cyclone Mick hit major islands of the Fiji Islands group, the threat of water borne disease still exists. In response, UNICEF is working to provide affected communities with the knowledge and facilities needed to access safe ... More >>
UNICEF Ready to Support Flood-Affected Fijians
Friday, 18 December 2009, 5:19 pm | UNICEF
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is focusing on ensuring support to people living in informal settlements in the Rewa River Delta region, to the east of the capital Suva. UNICEF estimates that at least 17,500 people in the area were ... More >>
UNICEF concerned about child protection
Friday, 18 December 2009, 1:57 pm | UNICEF
Wellington, 17 December 2009. – UNICEF is concerned for the well-being of thousands of people displaced in the wake of Cyclone Mick, including hundreds of children. More >>
Celebrities blog for ‘12 Days of UNICEF’ campaign
Wednesday, 16 December 2009, 9:52 am | UNICEF
Kiwi celebrities blog for ‘12 Days of UNICEF’ campaign that guarantees delivery of real aid gifts to children More >>
Emergency aid after cyclone rips through Fiji
Tuesday, 15 December 2009, 12:50 pm | UNICEF
Wellington 15 December 2009. – UN Children’s Fund staff are providing essential emergency supplies in the wake of a category two cyclone that hit Fiji, leaving four people dead, several missing, and thousands displaced from their homes. More >>
Cycolone Mick -- UNICEF stands by to respond
Monday, 14 December 2009, 4:49 pm | UNICEF
The UN Children's Fund is standing by to respond to the emergency needs of children and families in Fiji as Cyclone Mick makes its way over the country. More >>
Good sense prevails with Section 59 review
Tuesday, 8 December 2009, 2:23 pm | UNICEF
Wellington, 8 December 2009. – UNICEF NZ believes that the outcome of the recent review of the Child Discipline law is a victory for common sense and should finally put to rest unfounded claims of parents being unfairly treated. More >>
Ambitious International Climate Change Deal
Monday, 7 December 2009, 2:09 pm | UNICEF
One day ahead of the historic UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, the UN’s top climate change official expressed confidence that the meeting would deliver a comprehensive, ambitious and effective international climate change deal. More >>
Majority of young people back changes to transport
Tuesday, 24 November 2009, 10:58 am | UNICEF
A climate change survey of young New Zealanders has found a whopping 96 per cent are in favour of some changes to the country’s current transport system, with the majority voting for substantial change. A delegation of young Kiwis will take the ... More >>
Under-Nutrition Causes Poverty But Solutions Exist
Friday, 20 November 2009, 12:02 pm | UNICEF
Under-nutrition is both a consequence and a cause of poverty. Childhood under-nutrition makes learning more difficult and ill health more likely, which hinders a child’s capacity to secure a job as an adult, and the cycle of generational poverty and under-nutrition ... More >>
Under-Nutrition Causes Poverty However Solutions
Saturday, 14 November 2009, 12:12 pm | UNICEF
PORT VILA, 12 November 2009 – Under-nutrition is both a consequence and a cause of poverty. Childhood under-nutrition makes learning more difficult and ill health more likely, which hinders a child’s capacity to secure a job as an adult, and ... More >>
Economic Tsunami Looms for the Pacific
Friday, 13 November 2009, 10:20 am | UNICEF
[Suva – November 12] The Pacific is faced with an economic tsunami in the form of the global economic and financial crisis. More households will find themselves sliding into poverty, while others will find it increasingly hard to make ends meet. ... More >>
