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NAIROBI, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) -- The UN children's fund UNICEF is urging stepped-up response to humanitarian crisis facing Somalia, saying it was running out for children in the Horn of Africa nation. UNICEF Deputy Executive...
ABIDJAN, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) -- The global media campaign that was launched by China's Xinhua News Agency and UNICEF received applause in Cote d'Ivoire, where children are the most vulnerable in the West African country yet to...
BEIRUT (AFP) – The school dropout rate among Palestinian refugees in Lebanon is alarmingly high with 50 percent of 17-year-olds and 40 percent of 16-year-olds receiving no education, UN officials warned
By Lucy-Claire Saunders UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) -- During a recent trip to several developing islands, including the Maldives and the Kingdom of Tonga, Xinhua spoke to young people about environmental degradation,...
MAZRAQ, YEMEN -- From his tent made of blankets, Ali al-Majeshri stared at the tarpaulin tents in the refugee camp across the road. Five days before, he and his family had arrived at this wretched patch in a failing nation,...
By Ravi Nessman Associated Press Posted: Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009 Arun Kumar, center, 13, returns from school to the children's shelter where he lives in New Delhi on Tuesday. NEW DELHI Arun Kumar was born to disabled parents,...
Posted: Saturday, November 21, 2009, 10:08 (GMT) People collect water from a UNICEF truck in Harare, Zimbabwe. The Jubilee Debt Campaign is encouraging people of faith to take action on poverty and poor country debt. The...
CYBERJAYA, Malaysia, 20 November 2009 – Young peoplefrom different nationalities across theglobe are sending a message of peace and hope through music, as part of a UNICEF partnership with Limkokwing University of Creative...
Balloons with messages attached are released by Palestinian children in the West Bank city of Ramallah, during an event organized by UNICEF. The balloons were released to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the...
Eight years after a U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan, the country ranks as the worst place to be born, according to a United Nations report. The United Nation's Children's Fund, better known as UNICEF, says Afghanistan has the...
