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Despite aid, hunger still stalks Afghan children
AQCHA, Afghanistan -- While international forces in Afghanistan battle militants hiding in the mountains, aid agencies are fighting an even more elusive enemy: malnutrition.
The World Food Program and UNICEF have launched a project to feed thousands
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UN Fights Hunger in Afghanistan
While international forces in Afghanistan battle militants hiding in the mountains, aid agencies are fighting an even more elusive enemy: malnutrition. The World Food Program and UNICEF have launched a project to feed thousands of mothers and children
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Report: 225,000 Haiti children in slavery
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) Poverty has forced at least 225,000 children in Haiti's cities into slavery as unpaid household servants, far more than previously thought, a report said Tuesday.
The Pan American Development Foundation's report also said
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Report says 225,000 Haiti children work as slaves
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Poverty has forced at least 225,000 children in Haiti's cities into slavery as unpaid household servants, far more than previously thought, a report said Tuesday.
The Pan American Development Foundation's report also said
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UNICEF chief Veneman won't seek second term
UNICEF chief Veneman won't seek second term By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press Writer More News Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says UNICEF chief Ann Veneman will not seek a second term. Ban expressed "great regret" Wednesday that Veneman was stepping
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Struggles, hope for tsunami orphans
"I'm trying to be strong," said Pipit, who like many Indonesians uses one name.
The December 26, 2004, quake registered at least 9.1 on the Richter scale and unleashed towering waves that levelled communities from Indonesia to Thailand, India and Sri
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Memories of tsunami still haunt Nagapattinam
Posted: Dec 26, 2009 at 1135 hrs IST
Chennai/Porayar With tears in their eyes, family members remembered those swallowed by the deadly tsunami on the Tamil Nadu Coast five years ago that left over 8000 dead.
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Love/Hate: Metroid Prime
Those shoulderpads must come in handy. If you like to dislocate your scapula every time you get dressed for work.
To get to the point, is a lot like that teacher, who was so cute and pleasant and there were so many fun, enjoyable activities you
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PHILIPPINES: Volcano evacuees face months in camps
MANILA, 28 December 2009 (IRIN) - Nearly 50,000 people are still crammed in 29 evacuation centres in the eastern Philippine province of Albay after scientists raised the alert level of the Mayon volcano from three to four on a five-step alert
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Mali: The Paradox of Plenty
Sikasso — Sikasso is one of Mali's most fertile regions, but under-five malnutrition is as high here as in the country's barren north, according to government health data.
Health workers and agricultural experts explain the paradox as a combination of
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No more press conferences for Clooney
Actor George Clooney arrives at the UNICEF Ball held at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel on December 10, 2009 in Beverly Hills, California. (Jason Merritt, Getty Images)
George Clooney says he has ruled out sitting through any more press conferences to
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Stakeholders Call for Adoption of CLTS On Sanitation
There are new calls for the adoption of the Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) approach by all the 36 States and the FCT for the promotion of sanitation and attainment of the MDG target for Sanitation in Nigeria.
A communiqué made available to Daily
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Many refugees receive birthday wishes as they ring in new year
birthdays as significant as other days.
Abdalla Ali thinks he might have been born during the rainy season. He is pretty sure the year was 1984, but he doesn't know which month.
Ali grew up not knowing his age or tracking his birthday.
But in San
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Leaving the Comfort Zone in 2010: Three Movies Show Us How It's Done
We first meet Tom Krueger, one of four doctors featured in a gritty new documentary, amid green hills and gamboling horses on his 40-acre farm outside Nashville. Soon after that we see him in an emergency hospital in Monrovia, Liberia, where a long
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Al-Qaida alert forces UK to close Yemen embassy
Britain and the US closed their embassies in Yemen because of fears of an imminent terror attack by the local wing of al-Qaida blamed for the failed attempt to blow up an airliner on Christmas Day.
Officials in London and Washington said the decision
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Clooney a favorite to land Golden Globe
Actor George Clooney arrives at the UNICEF Ball held at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel on December 10, 2009 in Beverly Hills, California. (Jason Merritt, Getty Images)
George Clooney and his film Up In The Air are set to have a golden night at the Golden
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Aftershocks rattle Solomons after tsunami
AFTERSHOCKS continued to shake the Solomon Islands today as officials visited isolated villages a day after a powerful 7.2 magnitude quake and tsunami damaged at least 500 homes.
Information from the remote area remained sketchy but a police patrol
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UN rushes aid to Tsunami victims in Solomon Islands
Following reports that hundreds of houses were damaged and large areas completely inundated on Rendova Island (population 3,600) in Western Province of the South Pacific island nation, the UN Childrens Fund (UNICEF) dispatched a rapid response team by
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Ex-child soldiers leave Nepal camps after 3 years
DUDHAULI, Nepal (AP) - Scores of former child soldiers, many in tears, boarded buses Thursday for home, leaving a jungle detention camp where they have been held for three years and their lives as fighters behind.
The 155 youths were among some 3,000
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Rihanna helping Olympic hopeful
Rihanna attends the launch of Gucci's Tattoo Heart Collection to benefit UNICEF at Gucci's 5th Avenue store on November 19, 2008 in New York City. (Rob Loud, Getty Images)
Rihanna is desperate to find a bone-marrow donor for an Olympic hopeful
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My Celebrity Valentine
If I could have a celebrity valentine, who would he be and why?
My celebrity valentine, if I could it would be David Beckham; he makes me hot! I am not a fan of soccer per say. I am his fan! He stands out, as a celebrity sport, celebrity sport is a
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Dalai Lama inaugurates polio vaccination drive
Bodh Gaya, Jan 10(ANI): Tibetan spiritual leader and Nobel laureate the Dalai Lama kicked off polio eradication drive here on Sunday.
Addressing the gathering on this occasion Dalai Lama said: "We can notice here some young people with polio problem.
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Study finds that UNICEF program in Africa fails to save more children
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It is one of the few studies to evaluate whether U.N. health programs really save lives. Related work
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Study finds UNICEF program in West Africa fails
LONDON -- A UNICEF program that spent $27 million to decrease child deaths from disease in West Africa has failed, according to a new study that found a higher survival rate in some regions that weren't included in the program.
The U.N. children's
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US nonprofits sue over patent to feed hungry
The Malaunay, France-based company, Nutriset, said it hasn't been served with the lawsuit and won't respond to its allegations.
But company spokesman Remi Vallet said Nutriset believes the patent on its Plumpy'nut paste and the restrictions it imposes
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Stiller, Pitt, other celebs urge quake relief
FILE - In this Nov. 23, 2009 file photo, Ben Stiller arrives at the opening night performance of the new Broadway musical "Fela!" in New York.
The Walmart Foundation said Wednesday it will give $500,000 in cash and food kits worth $100,000 to help
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Wyclef Jean Joins George Clooney To Lead MTV's 'Hope For Haiti' Telethon
Wyclef Jean will join George Clooney and CNN's Anderson Cooper in hosting MTV Networks' "Hope for Haiti," the global telethon to air commercial-free across ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, CNN, BET, the CW, HBO, MTV, VH1 and CMT on Friday, January 22, at 8 p.m.
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Sports world comes together for Haiti relief
NEW YORK (AP) -The NFL and the players' union announced they were donating $500,000 each to the American Red Cross and Partners In Health on Friday, while the NBA and its union said it will contribute $1 million toward relief efforts in Haiti.
Major
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SF Giants Holding Auction To Benefit Haiti Victims
SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) ―
The San Francisco Giants are having an online auction to help raise money for earthquake victims in Haiti.
The team will be auctioning 10 pitches off a Giants starting pitcher. The package includes four Field Club seats, a
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Haiti on minds of many at Golden Globes red carpet
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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- Olivia Wilde says that low-cut, shimmering black-and-silver Gucci gown you saw her in at Sunday's Golden Globes is going on the auction bloc to raise money for Haitian earthquake victims, and she urged
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Haiti Quake Creates Thousands of New Orphans
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The 5-month-old patient at the Israeli field hospital has a number rather than a name.
No one even knows who dropped the barely conscious child at the makeshift medical center after he was pulled from the debris of a
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Americans rush to adopt orphaned Haitian children
Americans rush to adopt orphaned Haitian children By LISA ORKIN EMMANUEL Associated Press Writer John Heller,File FILE-This Jan. 19, 2010 file photo shows Haitian Orphans arriving for medical care at Childrens Hospital in Pittsburgh. The children were
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Dutch airlift brings 123 Haitian kids for adoption
EINDHOVEN, Netherlands -Enveloped in his new mother's embrace, 4-year-old Jersen Silvester Eefting gazed wide-eyed around a hotel lobby at the end of an 11-hour flight that whisked him from the devastation of Haiti to his new home in the Netherlands.
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“Hope For Haiti Now" Adds Celebrity To Lineup
Participants to include:
President Bill Clinton, Ben Stiller, Brad Pitt, Chris Rock,
Clint Eastwood, Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, Jon Stewart,
Julia Roberts, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Meryl Streep,
Morgan Freeman, Nicole Kidman, Robert
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Stars perform, plead for help at telethon for Haiti
Celebrities work on the phone bank during the "Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief" telethon in New York January 22, 2010. REUTERS/Marc Davis/MTV Hope for Haiti Now/Handout
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dozens of the biggest names in film
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All-star Haiti telethon raises $57 million, so far
NEKESA MUMBI MOODY,AP Music Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Organizers for the all-star "Hope for Haiti Now" telethon say the event raised $57 million — and counting.
The two-hour telethon aired Friday night on the major networks and dozens of other channels,
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UK 7-year-old raises tens of thousands for Haiti
LONDON - A young British schoolboy has raised nearly 100,000 pounds ($160,000) for Haiti's relief effort.
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Hope For Haiti's Total Now At $61 Million -- And Counting
The tally from the cross-network Haitian relief telethon continues to grow.
Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief has now raised some $61 million in donations from the general public to date. That total, up from $57 million on a
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Haiti: Smallest survivors pose one of biggest problems
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The smallest survivors of Haiti's catastrophic earthquake are growing into one of the biggest problems in its aftermath.
Many of the countless thousands of children scattered among Port-au-Prince's makeshift camps of homeless
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Child predators target Haitian orphans
BABIES and toddlers were plucked by brutes from the rubble of earthquake-devastated Haiti, The Sun reported today. Even those praying for sanctuary at field medical centres set were not safe, as aid workers warned child-trafficking gangs were springing
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Disease spreads in quake-hit Haiti
Haiti's desperate earthquake survivors faced a new threat Friday as the United Nations reported a rise in cases of diarrhea, measles and tetanus in squalid tent camps for victims.
A vast foreign aid effort is struggling to meet survivors' needs 17 days
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Latrines join food, water on Haiti's crisis list
With homes across the capital reduced to rubble, survivors have crammed tightly into plazas and other open spaces - so tightly that it is hard to find a place to dig latrines. "In some parks there is no physical space," said UNICEF's coordinator for
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Haiti detains Americans taking kids across border
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Ten American Baptists were being held in the Haitian capital Sunday after trying take 33 children out of Haiti at a time of growing fears over possible child trafficking.
The church members, most from Idaho, said they were
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Haiti: In Discussions To Possibly Release Baptists
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) ―
Haitian officials said Monday that they were discussing with the U.S. Embassy whether to send to the United States the 10 Americans arrested for trying to take 33 children out of the country.
A lawyer representing
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Haiti: A day in the life of UNICEF staff on the ground
UNICEF staff working by lamplight in tent offices and sleeping quarters set up at the UN missions base near the airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. UNICEFs two offices in the city were damaged during the earthquake, as were the residences of many staff
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UNICEF Shipment to Meet Basic Needs of 50,000 Children Arriving in Haiti
Leading companies join together to provide supplies and mobilize staff, shipping and freight services
NEW YORK, Feb. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Fund for UNICEF announced today the arrival of care packages for 50,000 children in
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UNICEF ambassador Mia Farrow deplores illegal adoptions after Haiti quake
GENEVA
- UNICEF goodwill ambassador Mia Farrow has criticized as "deplorable" attempts to take children out of Haiti illegally after last month's devastating earthquake.
The U.S. actress says groups or individuals who want to help Haiti's children
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10 Americans charged in Haiti with kidnapping
The Americans, most members of two Idaho churches, said they were rescuing abandoned children and orphans from a nation that UNICEF says had 380,000 even before the catastrophic Jan. 12 quake.
But at least two-thirds of the children, who range in age
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Bill Clinton arrives in Haiti as relief coordinator
"Flying into Port-au-Prince for the second time since the earthquake, I was pleased to see continued signs of an expanding relief effort," he said in a statement issued on the Clinton Foundation website.
He was quickly briefed by UN staff about the
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Haiti has neglected its young
The nation has no right to preach on child trafficking when it has long allowed child slavery.
WHEN a Haitian man walked up to Noel Ismonin - a pastor from Ottawa working in Haiti - and offered to sell him an orphan boy for $50, he refused and managed
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Jolie visits Haitian quake children
ANGELINA Jolie has visited a hospital where children injured in the Haitian earthquake are being treated.
Jolie, who serves as a goodwill ambassador for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and UNICEF, was joined by Gonzalo Vargas Llosa, son of
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Health crisis in Haiti enters a deadly new phase
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Fourteen-month-old Abigail Charlot survived Haiti's cataclysmic earthquake but not its miserable aftermath. Brought into the capital's General Hospital with fever and diarrhea, little Abigail literally dried up.
"Sometimes
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UNICEF warns against Haiti child smuggling
UNICEF warns against Haiti child smuggling The Associated Press More News The head of UNICEF warns that people may still be trying to smuggle children out of Haiti and says protecting youngsters who survived the earthquake is the top concern of the U.N.
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Bayside High School students recall surviving quake
As children and teachers at Queens Village Day School were doing their part for Haiti by marching down the street in their tie-dyed finest, another worker at the school was thanking his lucky stars.
The kids, whosold the shirts to their parents in
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As Severe Winter Spreads So Does Death and Shortages in Mongolia
With weeks of freezing temperatures and heavy snows leaving more than half of Mongolia's 21 provinces in urgent need of aid, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) today appealed for nearly $750,000 to face a crisis that is already seeing
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Girls less likely than boys to be freed from DR Congo's ranks of child soldiers - UN
Feb. 12, 2010 - Despite efforts to end the use of child soldiers in the war-torn east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), youngsters are still being recruited within the ranks of both the rebels and the national army, with girls at
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Bill Quigley: U.S. Brags Haiti Response is a "Model" While More Than a Million Remain Homeless in Haiti
Bill is the legal director of the Center for Constitutional Rights and a frequent visitor to Haiti for human rights work over the past decade. You can reach him at Quigley77@gmail.com
Despite the fact that over a million people remained homeless in
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Gambia expels UNICEF envoy
GAMBIA has expelled UNICEF's envoy, the UN children's agency said in the west African country regularly criticised for human rights violations.
"UNICEF received a letter last week from the Government stating that the country representative, Ms Min-Whee
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Millions of Afghan and Pakistani Children Will Receive Polio Vaccinations
Millions of Afghan and Pakistani children will receive polio vaccinations this week as part of a coordinated effort by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN political mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA)
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US nominates Anthony Lake to be UNICEF chief
UNITED NATIONS The United States is nominating foreign policy expert Anthony Lake, who was an adviser to President Barack Obama, as its candidate to head UNICEF, the U.N. children's agency.
U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice sent a letter to a number of
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US nominates Anthony Lake to be UNICEF chief
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press Writer UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The United States is nominating foreign policy expert Anthony Lake, who was an adviser to President Barack Obama, as its candidate to head UNICEF, the U.N. children's agency. U.S.
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UN offers help for Pakistanis cut off by heavy snowfalls
The United Nations Friday offered to provide help in Pakistans Swat region where some 100,000 people need food, clothing and blankets after heavy snowfalls and avalanches blocked roads and left some areas cut off from major towns.
So far the Pakistani
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UN to help Pakistanis cut off by avalanches
So far the Pakistani Army has provided food supplies by helicopter and is clearing the roads, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported.
Last week, UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Pakistan Martin Mogwanja called on the
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This looks like a job for Eurohero
LONDON: They are normally painted as grey Eurocrats ridiculed for endless deliberations on the shape of bananas or how much light bulbs should give off. Now, European Commission officials have had their revenge by producing a comic book portraying
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Pete Wentz: UNICEF's New Tap Project Spokesperson!
“It’s truly an honor to be the national spokesperson for the Tap Project and support efforts to provide clean water to children in the developing world,” said Pete. “Water is something that we as Americans often take for granted but the reality is, the
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Haiti adoption fights mirror desperation
At the very moment Haiti's impoverished children are in greatest need - and well-meaning foreigners most willing to help - fears of child trafficking are making it harder than ever for them to leave the Western Hemisphere's poorest land.
Fears were
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Kids caught in middle of Haiti adoption fights
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Foreigners detained, Haitians enraged, children caught in the middle: The scenario that played out this week echoed the case of 10 Americans caught trying to spirit youngsters out of this earthquake-ravaged nation.
This time it
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Yemen: Food security takes a knock
SANAA, 25 February 2010 (IRIN) - Cereal production in Yemen has declined for the second consecutive year due mainly to a lack of rainfall, according to Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation Abdulmalik al-Thawr.
Yemen's grain production,
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Niger: once-taboo topic of hunger spoken again
"A window has finally opened and we need to take advantage of it," said Anne Boher, Niger spokeswoman for the U.N. Children's Fund.
With food supplies rapidly dwindling, humanitarian agencies must prepare and mobilize funds, she said. "And to do that,
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Businesses turn to charitable causes
Patrons at Legal Sea Foods could dig into its Haitian rum-infused bread pudding this month with the assurance their dessert was a socially responsible choice. The Boston-based seafood chain set aside all proceeds from the dish for Haiti relief efforts
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Looking for lessons in Haiti's epic tragedy
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FILE - In this Jan. 23, 2010 file photo, U.S. Army Pvt. Allen Devriendt, of Delta Company, 173rd Cavalry, 82nd Airborne, of Phoenix, Ariz., tries to keep a stack of water bottles from falling over as a helicopter takes off at a
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Searching for Lessons in Haiti's Tragedy
(AP) Tons of rice and beans tell how the world is helping Haiti. Missing tents, tarps and toilets show how it is falling short.
Amid the misery, experts already are looking for lessons from the Haiti catastrophe - in time, they hope, for the next
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Mullahs help promote birth control in Afghanistan
Afghanistan has one of the world's highest fertility rates, averaging more than six babies per woman despite years of war and a severe lack of medical care. Awareness of, and access to, contraceptives remains low among many couples, with UNICEF
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Rights group: Boy jockeys in Emirates camel races
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates Young boys are still abused as jockeys in camel races in the United Arab Emirates even though the practice has been banned in the Gulf country for years, an international rights group said
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Shakira feted at U.N. labor agency
GENEVA -- Shakira has received a medal from the U.N. labor agency
for her work to help impoverished children.
The 33-year-old Colombian pop star has worked as a UNICEF goodwill
ambassador. Her Barefoot foundation provides nutrition to more than
6,000
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Donations from Americans for Haiti top $1 billion
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Experts who track charitable giving say donations from Americans for earthquake relief in Haiti have passed the $1 billion mark.
The Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University
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Billions raised for Haiti relief leaving needs unmet, fostering criticism from all sides
International aid groups and officials readily acknowledge they are overwhelmed by the scale of the disaster. Haitian leaders - frustrated that billions are bypassing them in favour of U.N. agencies and American and other non-governmental organizations
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Many Haiti schools seen as unlikely to reopen
Thousands of schools in and around this devastated capital could remain closed for months or never reopen, according to Haitian and U.N. education officials. That leaves vast numbers of children languishing in camps or working in menial jobs as they
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Swaziland: Tackling One Crisis at a Time Does Not Solve All
Mbabane — The myriad crises afflicting Swaziland can only be solved with a holistic approach, not a piecemeal one, the World Food Programme (WFP) deputy executive director, Sheila Sisulu, said during a recent tour of the country.
Swaziland, a small
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Children hospitalised by teacher's cane
EIGHT Bangladeshi children received treatment in hospital after being caned by their headmistress for forgetting to bring coloured pencils to school, police said today.
"She went on the rampage when she realised the students had not brought their
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Haiti's best and brightest, lost in the rubble
Now they're gone -- just when their struggling country needs them most.
The Jan. 12 earthquake struck just before 5 p.m., destroying office buildings and disproportionately killing the young professionals who were going the extra mile to make Haiti
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UNICEF appoint Lionel Messi
Lionel Messi is appointed Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF).
The 2009 FIFA World Player of the Year received the honour in a ceremony in Barcelona.
"While Messi's accomplishments as a player are well known, it is his
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Sachin Tendulkar named UN Goodwill Ambassador
Tendulkar, the first player to score 10,000 runs in one-day internationals, will use his massive global popularity to raise awareness and harness support for environmental action in his home country of India and around the world, the UNEP announced
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Called from the suburbs to a Haitian mountaintop
Over six years, the girls of Coq Chante had come to feel like family. Now, after trips by dozens to Haiti, thousands of dollars raised and spent, and countless hours poring over adoption paperwork, the bond between the congregation and 19 children from
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Called from the suburbs to a Haitian mountaintop
Each Sunday morning, members of White Stone Church spread photos of the girls' grinning, impish faces across a folding table before 10 a.m. worship, then prayed for the day the children might join them.
When the churchgoers closed their eyes and bowed
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Donors asked for $4.3 billion for vaccines for poor
LONDON (Reuters) - A further $4.3 billion is needed if a global vaccines alliance is to meet its goal of supplying life-saving immunizations to millions of children in poor countries by 2015, the organization said on Monday.
The GAVI Alliance (Global
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UN chief recommends Tony Lake to head UNICEF
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday selected U.S. foreign policy expert Tony Lake, who was an adviser to President Barack Obama, as his candidate to head UNICEF, the U.N. children's agency.
UNICEF's board must approve the selection, and is
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Jolie-funded Afghanistan school to welcome 800 girls
The primary school for girls, which Jolie funded in Tangi, Afghanistan, is all set to open its doors to 800 students.
The primary school for girls, which Angelina Jolie funded in Tangi, Afghanistan, is all set to open its doors to 800 students,
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Rapids final preseason game cancelled
Friday's preseason game in Commerce City between the Colorado Rapids and Seattle Sounders has been cancelled because of adverse weather forecasts.
The Rapids apologized for the inconvenience but said they took the action because forecasts included
