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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 >>
Kiwis to be among first to hear new UNICEF Anthem
Thursday, 12 November 2009, 2:12 pm | UNICEF
Wellington, 12 November 2009. – A New Zealand orchestra will be one of the first in the world to perform a new anthem dedicated to the world’s children. More >>
Future Generations May Be In Jeopardy
Thursday, 12 November 2009, 2:07 pm | UNICEF
NEW YORK, 11 November 2009 – Approximately 200 million children under the age of five in the developing world suffer from stunted growth as a result of chronic maternal and childhood undernutrition, according to a UNICEF report released today titled ... More >>
“Under-Nutrition” Key Risk For World's Children
Thursday, 12 November 2009, 1:24 pm | UNICEF
Wellington, 12 November 2009. – Some 200 million children under the age of five in the developing world suffer from stunted growth as a result of chronic maternal and childhood under-nutrition, according to a UN Children’s Fund report released ... More >>
Conference on Global Economic Crisis Planned
Wednesday, 4 November 2009, 4:02 pm | UNICEF
Suva, November 4: Preparations are underway in the Pacific for a major meeting to map ways to protect the region's vulnerable from the impacts of the Global Economic and Financial Crisis. Announcing the conference at the Forum Economic Ministers Meeting ... More >>
UNICEF: Alarm Over Number of Children in Poverty
Tuesday, 3 November 2009, 1:04 pm | UNICEF
Some 300 million children in South Asia, or half of the region’s under-18 population, suffer from chronic levels of poverty, according to a new United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) study presented today at the opening of a conference in Bangladesh. ... More >>
UNICEF Supports Water Tankering for Samoans
Monday, 2 November 2009, 4:12 pm | UNICEF
APIA, 2 November 2009 “ Almost 3,000 people, many of them children, are still relying on roadside delivery of water a month after a tsunami hit Samoa. The UN Children's Fund is supporting the Samoan Water Authority (SWA) with two water tankers to provide ... More >>
Water tankering for displaced Samoan families
Monday, 2 November 2009, 10:52 am | UNICEF
Apia, 2 November 2009. – Almost 3,000 people, many of them children, are still relying on roadside delivery of water a month after a tsunami hit Samoa. The UN Children’s Fund is supporting the Samoan Water Authority (SWA) with two water tankers to provide ... More >>
UNICEF: Granting Hope for Broken Dreams
Thursday, 29 October 2009, 11:27 am | UNICEF
Lesotho 28 October 2009 – It took several years for the foundations of the ambitious [Government of Lesotho, European Union and UNICEF supported] Child Grants Programme to be established, but finally its seeds are bearing fruits. With remarkable impetus, ... More >>
Sudan One of Most Dangerous Places for Mothers
Wednesday, 28 October 2009, 10:25 am | UNICEF
Sudan is one of the world’s more dangerous places for mothers, the top United Nations Children’s Fund ( http://www.unicef.org/) official there said today, calling for increased maternal care services. Some 26,000 women in Sudan – with a population ... More >>
Tsunami toll on Samoan pre-school children
Tuesday, 27 October 2009, 10:43 am | UNICEF
Apia , 25 October 2009. – The UN Children’s Fund is urgently supporting the return of tsunami-affected children to pre-school in what may be a forgotten chapter of Samoa ’s recent disaster. The devastating tsunami that struck Samoa on 29 September ... More >>
Tsunami Toll on Samoan Pre-School Children
Tuesday, 27 October 2009, 9:26 am | UNICEF
APIA, 25 October, 2009 – The UN Children’s Fund is urgently supporting the return of tsunami-affected children to pre-school in what may be a forgotten chapter of Samoa’s recent disaster. The devastating tsunami that struck Samoa on 29 September ... More >>
Young Kiwis take climate action
Thursday, 22 October 2009, 2:44 pm | UNICEF
UNICEF Kiwi climate ambassadors are gearing up for three days of action as part of this weekend’s international climate festivities. More >>
Emissions Data from Industrialised Countries
Thursday, 22 October 2009, 11:04 am | UNICEF
(Bonn, 21 October 2009) – According to the UN Climate Change Secretariat in Bonn, greenhouse gas emissions from industrialised countries increased in 2007, continuing the upward trend of the previous six years. More >>
Post-tsunami immunization campaign
Wednesday, 21 October 2009, 4:52 pm | UNICEF
Apia , 21 October 2009. – The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) are giving full support to a Samoan Government nationwide measles and Vitamin A immunization campaign that aims to reach more than 32,000 children. More >>
The Most Inaccessible and Vulnerable Children
Wednesday, 21 October 2009, 10:41 am | UNICEF
Lesotho 20 October 2009 – The people of Thaba Khubelu, one of the most remote areas of Lesotho, hardly see any assistance coming their way. This is because their village, nestled in the rolling mountains of the district of Qacha’s Nek (400 Km from the ... More >>
Strengthening Resolve To Help Those Most In Need
Tuesday, 20 October 2009, 2:38 pm | UNICEF
Natasha is a young mother living with HIV in Zambia. Her newborn son Fanwick was born HIV-negative, thanks to medicines Natasha received while pregnant and during birth to stop the transmission of the virus. Unemployed and alone, Natasha lives ... More >>
