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In keeping with a tradition started four years ago, this holiday season the IKEA Social Initiative will use proceeds from the sale of IKEA soft toys to help finance education projects run by UNICEF and Save the Children.
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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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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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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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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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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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Two days after the presentation of the Nobel Peace Prize to environmental experts, UNICEF has released a publication that outlines the concerns of children and youth about climate change.
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UNICEF is appealing for $29.2 million to support the needs of children and women affected by Cyclone Sidr.
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Between November 3 and December 24, 2007, IKEA will donate 1 Euro for every Soft Toy sold.
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UNICEF is supporting the national response to the needs of children and women in the areas of health, water and sanitation, education, nutrition and child protection.
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More than four days after Cyclone Sidr ripped through the coastline of Bangladesh, wreaking carnage upon mostly poor coastal dwelling communities, the official death count now stands at just under 3000 according to the latest government figures.
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Despite access and security limitations, UNICEF is working with local partners in southern Somalia to bring much-needed relief to over 100,000 people newly displaced by the recent upsurge in conflict in the capital, Mogadishu.
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UNICEF has deployed two missions to assess the needs of children in the aftermath of the floods that have hit the Mexican states of Tabasco and Chiapas.
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