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Child sexual exploitation has long been a known evil in developing countries where the combination of tourism and poverty make for a lucrative business.
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As the world commemorates Universal Children’s Day, UNICEF today welcomes the launch of a new group that aims to amplify the voice of those suffering as a result of conflict.
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UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman is in Mexico City on the last leg of a twelve day, three-country mission. She is leading the UNICEF delegation to the 17th International AIDS Conference.
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Young people from Group of 8 (G8) industrialized nations and from the developing world are meeting today with the G8 leaders in Toyako, Japan to present their recommendations as part of the Junior 8 (J8) Summit.
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A lethal mix of drought, expanding conflict, rising food and energy prices, disease, and high poverty is pushing children and their families in the Greater Horn of Africa to the brink of disaster.
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A massive airlift of the ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) Plumpy’Nut arrived in Addis Ababa last night as part of UNICEF’s emergency response to meet the urgent needs of severely malnourished children in drought-affected areas of Ethiopia.
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UNICEF will work with the Ministry of Education to reopen schools in some cyclone-affected areas by 2 June. The focus will be on damaged and collapsed schools in areas which have not been reached by aid agencies.
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UNICEF South Africa has joined forces with the cities of Johannesburg, Ekhuruleni, and Tshwane, areas hardest hit by the violence, to provide emergency relief supplies to meet immediate needs of vulnerable women and children.
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UNICEF hails the government's decision to grant full access to international aid workers to every part of cyclone-battered Myanmar.
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The Government of China has organized a high level mission to Sichuan - with support from UNICEF - to provide immediate psycho-social assistance for children suffering emotional trauma following the major earthquake that struck the region on 12 May.
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First hand reports indicate surviving children without food, water, shelter
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UNICEF missions throughout the flooded regions of Myanmar report that the destruction of homes, schools and water and sanitation systems are is now affecting the lives and well-being of 1 million children.
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The children's agency launches "It's About Ability" a publication for children on the Convention
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Amid worsening drought conditions, soaring food prices and mass displacement of people due to conflict, UNICEF has started supplementary feeding for 44,000 children under five years of age along the Mogadishu-Afgoye corridor in Central and Southern Somalia.Amid worsening drought conditions, soaring food prices and mass displacement of people due to conflict, UNICEF has started supplementary feeding for 44,000 children under five years of age along the Mogadishu-Afgoye corridor in Central and Southern Somalia.
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Two days after the largest
earthquake to hit China in a generation, news of its full impact on the communities living close to the epicenter is still trickling in at a painfully slow speed.
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Child-friendly spaces set up in camps sheltering people affected by Cyclone Nargis.
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UNICEF is deeply concerned at reports that a number of children have been killed during attacks on two villages of North Darfur, in the west of Sudan, and calls on the Government forces and the other parties to the ongoing conflict to take every necessary action to prevent future deaths or injuries amongst children.
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More than 100 integrated preschools for rural children
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$1 Million Grant From the Ford Foundation to Leverage U.S. Fund for UNICEF's Goal of One-To-One Match From Donors
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Family Health International (FHI) and UNICEF have joined forces to provide quality services for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) to women and children in one of Zambia's most remote provinces, Luapula.
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