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Category Archives: Children
Brings light, security and fuel-efficient cooking to refugees!
UNHCR launched the five-year Light Years Ahead campaign in January 2011, aiming to raise funds to improve the basic cooking and lighting needs of more than 450,000 refugees in seven African countries. To date, the agency has raised US$1.4 million, … Continue reading
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Hope for abandoned children
Give hope to abandoned children. For the celebration of the second anniversary of Niono’s Orphanage based in Mali (West Africa), this video was made to thank all those who participate in the realisation of the project. Today many abandoned children … Continue reading
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Would-be teen bride is hospitalized in Afghan acid attack
The recent acid-throwing attack on a teenage Afghan girl and her two sisters has again focused attention on the fates of child brides. The 17-year-old girl in the Kunduz province, north of Kabul, was apparently supported by her family in … Continue reading
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India faces scourge of bridal slavery
India has the world’s largest number of slaves, among them an increasing number of women and girls sold into marriage. Women’s and children’s rights activists are sounding the alarm over the abuse of young girls as part of a growing … Continue reading
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7 Billion
I welcome “Danica” as the 7 000 000th new-born to the World! She and all the other children have the right to live in a better and safer world!
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UNHCR scales back work in Kenya
The UN refugee agency is continuing to distribute water, food and medical services to famine refugees in the Dadaab camps near the Kenya-Somalia border, but has suspended all non-life-saving activities after the abductions Thursday of two female Spanish aid workers. … Continue reading
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Inside the world of child brides
BBC presenter Nel Hedayat travels to India and Bangladesh, countries with two of the highest rates of child marriage, to chronicle what life is like to be one of the 10 million girls worldwide who are married off each year … Continue reading
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UNICEF: Global austerity is hitting children hardest
Fiscal austerity measures being adopted by governments to combat the global economic downturn are heaping misery upon the world’s poor, especially children, who already are suffering from food, fuel and financial shocks, according to a study by the UN Children’s … Continue reading
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Women and girls in the spotlight at UN
The United Nations has put the health and well-being of women and girls in the forefront of this week’s General Assembly meetings with the Every Woman Every Child initiative. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon aims to build a global effort where private … Continue reading
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Polio-stricken Congo street band finds a global audience
Street musicians from Congolese ghettos — four of them disabled from polio, and playing makeshift instruments while seated on makeshift tricycles — have coalesced into the band, Staff Benda Bilili, which is featured in a movie that chronicles the band’s … Continue reading
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