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News Around the World |
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UNICEF News
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News from UNICEF, Press releases, News notes, Media advisories, Statements
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In Uzbekistan, child-friendly preschools are engaging children and improving education
BUKHARA, Uzbekistan, 2 February 2012 ? In Bukhara, southern Uzbekistan, music and laughter drifted across Preschool Number 11.
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In the Central African Republic, UNICEF expands a nutrition treatment center for severely malnourished children
BANGUI, Central African Republic, 1 February 2012 - About 100 malnourished children are admitted each month in the Bangui Paediatric Hospital, many of them requiring three to four weeks of treatment.
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Youth Filmmakers win 2011 OneMinutesJr. Awards
NEW YORK, USA, and Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1 February 2012 ? UNICEF and the One Minutes Foundation announced today the winners of the 2011 OneMinutesJr. Awards.
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Field diary: In Sudan, a long wait for the journey home to South Sudan
KOSTI, Sudan, 1 February 2012 ? A raggedy doll is all that 18-year-old Sabina Saisa has left to remind her of her best friend, Jacqueline.
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UNICEF helps Rwandan community build back after devastating earthquake
RUSIZI DISTRICT, Rwanda, 31 January 2012 ? One Sunday morning three years ago, a devastating earthquake ripped through Rusizi and Nyamasheke, two of Rwanda?s south-western districts, injuring 643 and killing 36.
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UNICEF aids restavek victims of abuse and exploitation in Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, 31 January 2012 ? In 2007, 10-year-old Larissa Saint-Claire (NAME CHANGED) lived quietly with her parents in Beaumont, in southwest Haiti, when a visit from one of her sisters changed her life.
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'Full of Grace' photography exhibition celebrates children
WEST PALM BEACH, USA, 30 January 2012 ? ?Full of Grace?, a graceful, eclectic and evocative exhibition of more than 200 photographs, accompanied by sculptures and literary quotations, opened on 26 January at the Palm Beach Photographic Center in West Palm Beach, Florida. It is an exuberant celebration of the representation of children in photography over the past 150 years.
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In Yemen, day care centres offer safe haven and education to Somali refugee children
ADEN, Yemen, 30 January 2012 ? The voice of Miryam Mohammed, a 10-year-old Somali girl, echoed around the small rooms of her day care centre. She and the other children are singing the Somali national anthem.
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Podcast #51: An innovative program provides media training for youth in Haiti
NEW YORK, 30 January, 2012 ? With 43 per cent of its people under 18 years old, Haiti has one of the youngest populations in the world. Yet the country?s young people continue to suffer from a lack of opportunities and remain vulnerable in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake.
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With cash transfers, UNICEF and partners aid drought-affected families in Niger
GAWOUNAWA, Niger, 27 January 2012 ? At the end of the farming season, Halima Isaka sat with her 10-month-old daughter at the edge of their family?s field, watching as her husband loaded a pile of dried millet stalks onto an oxcart.
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