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A video made by youth, highlights the needs of a young girl with disabilities during an emergency. UNICEF
A video made by youth, highlights the needs of a young girl with disabilities during an emergency. UNICEF
It's back to school time for thousands of Syrian children at Za'atari refugee camp in northernJordan. After a one-month winter break classes are full again bringing some degree of normality to the lives of children among the camps 70,000 population. UNICEF
Some 193 nations and almost 100 NGOs meet to discuss increasing protection for older persons. UNTV
Introducing a recent report by Britain’s renowned Royal Society on the link between population and sustainability, Nobel prize-winning biologist Sir John Sulston said today that the 21st century was a critical juncture for the planet, and called on countries to reduce consumption and give women better access to family planning. UNTV / FILE
Just over half the world’s population, including more than a billion children, now live in cities and towns, more people than any other time in human history. Traditionally, people move to cities to improve their lives, but a new UNICEF report shows that urban life also hides great disparities between the rich and the poor. [...]
The majority of Haitians living in the Dominican Republic are stateless. Those who are born there have neither a Haitian nor Dominican passport, most of them are illegal and work in the batey or sugar cane plants. Now UNHCR along with a local NGO are to help Haitians become legal and to integrate them into [...]
Eight years into the UNICEF-supported Protected Communities programme in DR Congo, about 200,000 orphaned or vulnerable children have been helped to improve their lives. UNICEF
As the largest family planning conference in history kicked off in Dakar, Senegal on Tuesday, the executive director of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) Babatunde Osotimehin noted that Africa “continues to be the region of the world that’s seems to lag behind the most” in family planning, maternal health and child health. UNFPA / APATV
UNICEF Good Will Ambassador Danny Glover this week made a ceremonial first kick at the launch of Colombia’s first national tournament of Golombiao, a traditional form of soccer.
A UN report released today which tracked the environmental changes the planet has gone through over the past 20 years says that rapid action is needed to curb resource depletion and ensure human activities do not destroy the environment that supports economies and sustains life. CH UNTV / FILE