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Global Child Mortality Continues to Drop
UNICEF this week released new figures that show the rate of deaths of children under five years of age continued to decline in 2008....
Almost 200 Child Soldiers Returned to Families
The United Nations Children’s Fund yesterday welcomed the release of nearly 200 child soldiers by a Central African rebel group. The People’s...
Buy One Ikea Solar Lamp, One Free to a Child Refugee
Starting this month, every sale of a solar powered bedside lamp at IKEA will generate an additional lamp as a donation to a child...
Iraq Commits $30 Million for Children
The government of Iraq has committed $30 million to projects this year that will assist children in rural areas of the Marshlands region, an...
US Makes Emergency $20 million Contribution for Gaza Relief
Using funds from the U.S. Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund, the Obama administration on Friday made an emergency contribution of more than $20...
Afgan Schools to Benefit From $24 Million Boost
Tens of thousands of schoolchildren in Kabul are set to benefit from a $24 million donation from Japan, under an agreement signed today with...
IKEA Donates Plush Toy Proceeds to Kids’ Education in Poor Countries
Thanks to IKEA and its customers, scores of projects aimed at improving the education of school children around the world will benefit from a...
Nine Reasons to Love the United Nations
The Nations of the world can gather this week with pride on the occasion of the 63rd session of the General Assembly of the...
UN Agencies Continue to Rush Aid to Georgia
The United Nations is continuing to send much-needed assistance to the Georgian city of Gori, most of whose population has fled since the start...
Somalia Once Again Polio-Free, Declares UN
In what is being described as a major victory in the global fight against polio, the United Nations health agency announced yesterday that the...
Measles Deaths In Africa Plummet by 91 Percent — UN
Deaths from measles in Africa have dropped by 91 per cent -- from an estimated 396,000 to 36,000 -- between 2000 and 2006, thus...
Child Mortality Falls to Record Low Worldwide
Thanks mainly to campaigns to combat measles and malaria and promote breast-feeding, child deaths worldwide have reached a record low, falling below 10 million...
Angelina Jolie Spotlights Plight of Iraqi Refugees as Goodwill Ambassador (Video/text)
Actress and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie is visiting Iraq and Syria to raise awareness of the plight...
Palestinian Teens Find Relief in UN Youth Centers
With border closures and increased poverty undermining the ability of Palestinian teenagers to get a good education and enjoy their time off, the value...
Jordan to Allow Iraqi Refugees into Schools
When Jordanian public schools start classes on 19 August, all children, including expatriate Iraqi students will be able to attend classes in the country's...
Teaching AIDS Orphans to Farm and Help Themselves
(IRIN) - Twelve-year-old Nhlanhla Matsebula, one of Swaziland’s growing number of children orphaned by AIDS, has good reason to feel proud. He has mastered...
(UPDATED) Bill Clinton Brokers Generic AIDS Drug Deal
"Former U.S. president Bill Clinton has announced a deal with drug companies to drastically reduce the cost of second-line anti-retroviral HIV/AIDS medicines for people...
Six Million Children Immunized Against Measles In DPR Korea
Six million children in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) aged six months to 15 years have been immunized in a massive United...
School Enrollment Rates Double in Southern Sudan
The number of students enrolled in school in southern Sudan has more than doubled since the end of the long-running civil war two years...
Five Ways the United Nations is Saving People and the Planet
In 1997, the owner of Cable News Network, Ted Turner, shocked the world when he handed over a billion dollars to the United Nations....