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UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — K-Pop sensation BTS will address the United Nations on Monday for the launch of a campaign by the UN children’s agency UNICEF as world leaders prepare to open their annual General Assembly debate. BTS will be speaking at the launch of “Generation Unlimited,” a new partnership to promote education, training and employment for the world’s youth, said a UNICEF spokesperson. Among South Korea’s best known and most lucrative musical […]
NOUMEA, France (AFP) — New Caledonia agreed Tuesday to tougher protections around a huge swathe of some of the world’s last near-pristine coral reefs, in a move conservationists hailed as a major breakthrough. The Pacific nation, a French overseas territory, is home to a rich array of wildlife including 2.5 million seabirds and over 9,300 marine species, such as dugongs — marine mammals related to manatees — and nesting green sea turtles, many of which thrive […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has named the wife of former Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro as the Philippines’ representative to the United Nations Children’s Fund. Based on the appointment paper dated March 7, Monica Prieto Teodoro’s term will last for a year–from September 26, 2017 to September 27, 2018. The female Teodoro served as Tarlac 1st District representative from 2007 to 2010. Her husband, who was defense secretary from 2007 to 2009, was offered the […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — UNICEF deputy director Justin Forsyth on Thursday resigned from the UN children’s agency following complaints of inappropriate behavior towards female staff in his previous post as head of British charity Save The Children. He apologized again for his past “mistakes”, but said his decision to step down from the top role was driven by concern that the scandal would hurt both organisations. “I want to make clear I am […]
AMMAN, Jordan (AFP) — The UN children’s fund on Tuesday expressed “outrage” over the killings of children in Syria by issuing a blank statement, adding in a footnote that “no words will do (them) justice”. The statement came after a ferocious Syrian regime bombing campaign pounded the rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta on Monday, killing 127 civilians, 39 of them children. “No words will do justice to the children killed, their mothers, their fathers and […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Inihayag ng United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) na nakahanda itong magpadala ng relief supplies at magdeploy ng field teams sa mga lugar na apektado ng bagyong “Vinta.” Kabilang sa ipagkakaloob ng nasabing UN agency ay water at sanitation supplies, water kits para sa mga pamilya, malaking water tanks para magamit ng komunidad, tents at iba pa. Ayon kay Lotta Sylwander, head ng UNICEF operations sa bansa, handang-handa silang suportahan ang […]
COX’S BAZAAR, Bangladesh (Reuters) — The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) offers Rohingya children education opportunities in hundreds of schools set up within the refugee camps in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district. With 37 children in each class, educators teach Burmese, English and maths in the hopes the pupils are able secure a bright future and earn a living, a UNICEF spokesperson said on Tuesday (October 24) Nearly 340,000 Rohingya children are living in squalid conditions […]
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AFP) – The United Nations faced criticism Friday after naming Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe a “goodwill ambassador” to promote health causes, despite the country’s dire health crisis under his rule. The UN World Health Organization (WHO) asked Mugabe to serve in the role to help tackle non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as heart attacks, strokes and asthma across Africa. Mugabe, 93, was in Uruguay for the announcement by WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who said he […]
by Alexandre Marchand Agence France-Presse THANKHALI, Bangladesh (AFP) – The United Nations launched one of its biggest ever cholera vaccination drives in the vast refugee camps of southeast Bangladesh Tuesday amid fears of an outbreak among nearly a million Rohingya now living there. Thousands of Rohingya men and women lined up in intense heat at makeshift health centers on Tuesday, many with young children in their arms, to receive the oral vaccine against the disease. The […]
(Eagle News) – The Japanese government has donated $800,000 to help the people affected by the armed conflict in Marawi City. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said the $800,000 from Japan will help improve sanitation in the war-torn city and in Lanao del Sur. “Reports of increased incidences of diarrhea including acute watery diarrhea draw attention to scaling up sanitation responses, access to clean water, and reinforce immunization and nutrition services in areas with […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — Approximately one in four children worldwide will live in regions with extremely scarce water resources by 2040, UNICEF said in a report Wednesday. In research released on World Water Day, the United Nations children’s agency warned that in just over two decades nearly 600 million children will be living in areas with severely limited safe water sources, as population growth and surging demand for water clash with the effects […]
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) — Violence against children in war-ravaged Syria was “at its worst” in 2016, the United Nations children’s agency said Monday as the conflict nears its seventh year. The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund said that cases of children being killed, maimed, or recruited into armed groups were the “highest on record” last year. “The depth of suffering is unprecedented. Millions of children in Syria come under attack on a daily basis, […]
