Tag: #UNICEF
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Generation threatened as pandemic sets back childhood development: UNICEF
New York, March 11 (AFP/APP):Closed schools, surging poverty, forced marriages and depression, after a year of the pandemic, indicators measuring child and adolescent development have all regressed, a setback that heralds lasting stigma for an entire generation, UNICEF warned Thursday. “The number of children who are hungry, isolated, abused, anxious, living in poverty and forced…
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Generation Threatened as Pandemic Sets Back Childhood Development: UNICEF
UNICEF says that a whole generation is threatened as the pandemic sets back childhood development.
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Generation threatened as pandemic sets back childhood development: UNICEF
After a year of the pandemic, indicators measuring child and adolescent development have all regressed
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Children can’t see future in Syria after 10 years of war: charity
10-year war has cost Syria’s young people their childhoods
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UNICEF to supply one billion syringes, 10 mln safety boxes to low income countries
ISLAMABAD, Mar 1 (APP):United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) will supply up to 1 billion syringes and 10 million safety boxes to 82 countries lower and middle income countries in 2021 to ensure they are ready for COVID-19 vaccinations. To meet the demand for these vital supplies, UNICEF created a stockpile of almost half…
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UNICEF urges repatriation of all children in Syria’s al-Hol camp following deadly fire
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 28 (APP):The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Sunday urged all countries to repatriate and safely reintegrate their young nationals being held at Syria’s largest camp for refugees and internally-displaced, following a deadly weekend fire at Al-Hol camp which saw at least three children die, and another 15 injured. In and around the…
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Hundreds of girls unaccounted for after new abductions in Nigeria
Kano, Nigeria, Feb 26 (AFP/APP):Gunmen raided a school in northwestern Nigeria overnight, abducting students, local authorities said Friday, raising fears that the country had been hit by another mass kidnapping. The suspected armed bandits attacked the Government Girls Secondary School in Jangebe in Zamfara state, kidnapping an unknown number of students from dormitories. In the…
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Millions of children at risk in DR Congo violence: UN
Kinshasa, Feb 19 (AFP/APP):Several million children are at risk in DR Congo regions that have been destabilised by armed groups, the UN’s children’s agency said on Friday. “The lives and futures of more than three million displaced children are at risk in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) while the world is looking the…
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WHO says more research needed on ‘constellation’ of post-coronavirus symptoms
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 12 (APP):More research is still needed into the “constellation” of sometimes debilitating symptoms among people who have recovered from coronavirus, the World Health Organization said on Friday, noting that it will impact global health systems. “We know that this post-COVID-19 condition – or as some patients also call it ‘long COVID’ and…
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UNICEF hands over 220 oxygen concentrators worth $331,000 to Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Feb 05 (APP):The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) handed over 220 oxygen concentrators worth $331,000 to the Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination here on Friday. The oxygen concentrators have been procured through support from the Asian Development Bank (ADB). An oxygen concentrator is a critical life-saving device used for treating patients…