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UN Foundation debuts new app
A mobile application from the UN Foundation offers information on the organization’s global work on health, development and environmental issues. The UN Foundation’s mobile app aims to provide information on what the United Nations Foundation is up to around the … Continue reading
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UN calls on Sri Lanka to safeguard civilians, refugees
The UN issued a statement expressing grave concern about the state of civilians trapped in a small sliver of northern Sri Lanka where fighting between government forces and Tamil Tigers is fierce. The UN also called for an effort to … Continue reading
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Burundi: Finding our place
Thousands of Burundians have returned home after years of refugee life in Tanzania, but finding shelter and enough land to farm remains a challenge. The government, in an attempt to cater for landless returnees, internally displaced persons and other vulnerable … Continue reading
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The UN Foundation’s Nothing But Nets campaign, a global, grassroots initiative to prevent malaria, announced today the distribution of nearly one million bed nets to children and their families throughout the Central African Republic (CAR). The nets will be distributed … Continue reading
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Anti-malaria efforts protecting more African children
The percentage of African children sleeping under insecticide-treated bed nets has increased dramatically from 2% to 19% between 2000 and 2007, according to a study published in The Lancet. Free distribution of the nets has helped drive the change, but … Continue reading
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Millennium Development Goals
Japan donates more than $8 million for child survival programmes in Nigeria Since 2000, the Government of Japan has contributed about $44.24 million for the prevention of infectious diseases in Nigeria through the Programme of Cooperation between UNICEF and the … Continue reading
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UN food crisis meeting searches for solutions
Some days ago I wrote about ”Child malnutrition in Cameroon”. It seems as the food crises needs a continuous struggle to get near its end. The United Nations’ new task force formed to tackle the global food crisis held a … Continue reading
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Gaza Summer Games, grand Finale. September 2007
UNRWA’s Summer Games provided a much needed break from the daily hardships faced by youngsters and their families in the Gaza Strip. The two and a half months of activities, which began on 23 June, culminated in a series of … Continue reading
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Somaly Mam Wins World’s Children’s Award
Somaly Mam’s continued effort to battle sexual slavery was recently honoured by the World Children’s Prize, decided by a vote of over 6 million children worlwide. From an article in the International Herald Tribune: “A Cambodian activist who has worked … Continue reading
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Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon
All the camps in figures 394,532 total registered refugees Registered camp population: 223,956 12 official camps 81 elementary and preparatory schools 5 secondary schools 41,583 enrolled pupils (2003/2004) 25 primary health care facilities 46,235 refugees registered as special hardship cases … Continue reading
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