GENEVA (Reuters) - Somalia has announced it plans to ratify a global treaty aimed at protecting children, leaving the United States as the ...
20 years after UN pact to protect children, some successes alongside a long list of woes EDITOR'S NOTE — The United Nations adopted ...
GENEVA (Reuters) - Eight years after a U.S.-led invasion ousted the Taliban from power in Afghanistan, the war-ravaged state is the most dangerous place in the world for a child to be born, the United Nations said on Thursday. It is especially ...
Actress Lucy Liu, left, an ambassador for UNICEF, the U.N. children's agency, listens to Grace Akallo, 29, a former child soldier in Uganda, speak during a news conference in New York, Thursday Nov. 19, 2009. UNICEF issued a special edition of its ...
A student stands next to a painting of a Cuban flag in Pinar del Rio, Cuba, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009. French and Cuban singers will perform a concert as part of the UNICEF fund raising program "Schools Against Hurricanes", aimed to rebuild ...
This Nov. 16, 2009 photo shows Palestinian pupils at the Omar Ben al-Khattab School in the town of Beit Lahiya, in northern Gaza. Twenty years after the U.N. adopted a treaty guaranteeing children's rights, fewer youngsters are dying and more are going ...
KOLKATA, India (Reuters Life!) - Fourteen-year-old Ahalya Kumar lives on a single daily meal of starched rice and has never been to the movies, but the girl from a dirt-poor Indian village packed enough power to reject her arranged marriage in June. ...
The World Health Organisation announced on Tuesday that the largest ever round of yellow fever vaccinations, for about 12 million people, would be launched in three West African countries next week. "The largest ever drive against yellow fever is going to kick ...
Somali livestock farmers who have converged massively on the port of Berbera after losing all their animals said that this year's drought is the worst in ten years. "We were in a drought for the past six months. It was very severe. ...
Nearly 200 million children in poor countries have stunted growth because of insufficient nutrition, according to a new report published by UNICEF before a three-day international summit on the problem of world hunger. The head of a U.N. food agency called on ...
The UN Children's Fund UNICEF said Friday that 240 villages have reportedly been evacuated and more than 50 schools closed in Saudi Arabia after the conflict in North Yemen spilled over the border. "UNICEF is deeply concerned about the escalation of the ...
GENEVA (Reuters) - Some 240 villages in Saudi Arabia have been evacuated and scores of schools closed due to fighting which has now spilled over from Yemen, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Friday, citing local contacts. Saudi Arabia, the ...
