VIDEO REPORT: Putting children on the road to recovery in Mali
UNICEF correspondent Bob Coen reports on UNICEF programmes that are assisting malnourished children in drought-stricken Mali.
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Sound the Alarm - Crisis in the Sahel
As aid agencies warn of a funding shortage for the crisis in the Sahel, actor and UNICEF Ambassador Ewan McGregor calls for more help for the region.
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PHOTO OF THE WEEK: 21 May 2012
A Karamojong girl runs to class in Naitakwaé Town.
Free primary education has raised enrolment rates to 83 per cent in Uganda. Still, children – especially girls – of the semi-nomadic pastoralist Karamojongs face additional barriers to education; less than 40 per cent of the community’s children attend school. A UNICEF-supported non-formal educational model, sensitive to Karamojong culture, is helping to boost enrolment.
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VIDEO REPORT: Fighting child sexual abuse in the Caribbean
Sexual violence against children is both widespread and underreported. In the Caribbean region, efforts to address the sexual abuse of children are beginning to gain momentum.
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Donna Summer was an amazing lady who graciously performed at the 1979 UNICEF benefit concert held in the General Assembly here at the United Nations.
Find her picture on this album cover from the event - who else do you recognize?
Hadiza Lawali, 19, holds antimalarial tablets in her tattooed hand, at the UNICEF-supported Routgouna Health Centre in the town of Mirriah in Mirriah Department, in Zinder Region of Niger. Ms. Lawali, who is five months pregnant, is undergoing a prenatal examination. She has been given the medicine as a preventative measure. Providing pregnant women with at least two doses of an antimalarial medicine during scheduled antenatal visits after the first trimester, whether or not they show symptoms of malaria infection, substantially reduces the risk of anaemia in mothers and of low birth weight in newborns.
In March 2012 in Niger, under-five mortality rates remain among the highest in the world, the result of preventable or treatable conditions, including malnutrition. The country is one of eight in the Sahel region – also including Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and the northern parts of Cameroon, Nigeria and Senegal – facing a nutrition crisis that now affects over 10 million people. #SahelNOW
2012© UNICEF/NYHQ2012-0326/Olivier Asselin
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In December 2005 in southern Sudan, a boy drinks water from the Akuem River, near the village of Malual Kon in Bahr el Ghazal State. Only about one-third of the population has access to safe drinking water, and the threat of water-borne disease has increased as towns swell due to the return of displaced people and refugees following decades of civil war.
2005 © UNICEF/NYHQ2005-1987/Georgina Cranston
The Rights of Children: Honour, protection from abuse & war
Claudine, a 17-year-old girl and survivor of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, reveals a scar on her cheek and neck caused by a machete blow in the southern town of Butare. Claudine suffered many injuries, including an amputated hand.
1996 © UNICEF/Giacomo Pirozzi
PHOTO OF THE WEEK: 15 May 2012
10 May 2012 marks the tenth anniversary of ‘A World Fit for Children’. The document – committing governments to specific health, education and protection goals for children – was adopted in 2002 at the United Nation’s first-ever General Assembly Special Session on Children. A world where all children survive and thrive depends on leaders’ continued vigilance to keep these promises.
An infant and her mother, in Niamey, Niger.
2012 ©UNICEF/Nyani Quarmyne
Boys peer through a window in their home in Busoru III Village, a former displacement camp. Children in Uganda continue to face persistent poverty and high rates of infant and child mortality. Despite reducing child mortality rates by 27 per cent since 1990, Uganda will not achieve Millennium Development Goal 4 – the goal to reduce by two-thirds the deaths of children under age five.
2919 © UNICEF/Shehzad Noorani
