Find out more about what UNICEF Ireland is doing to help children survive.
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Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Exceptionally heavy monsoon rains that caused an unprecedented disaster in Pakistan during 2010 have returned with a vengeance to hit the southernmost part of the country.
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Sunday, September 18, 2011
New heavy rains and persistent flood waters have affected over 5 million people, including almost 2.7 million children.
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Thursday, September 15, 2011
The number of children under five years of age dying each year declined from more than 12 million in 1990 to 7.6 million in 2010, UNICEF and the World Health Organization said today, releasing the latest estimates on worldwide child mortality.
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Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Vital emergency supplies, including hundreds of thousands of litres of clean water daily, are being rolled out to children and families left vulnerable by severe monsoon floods in southern Pakistan.
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Monday, September 12, 2011
As many as 2.5 million children have been affected by severe monsoon floods in southern Pakistan. With many still recovering from the worst floods in the country's history just a year ago, UNICEF says more help must reach them fast before the situation worsens.
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Friday, September 09, 2011
As a new academic term began this week in countries affected by the on-going drought in the Horn of Africa, UNICEF is accelerating efforts to help children fully benefit from education.
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Wednesday, September 07, 2011
As part of the response to the drought crisis in Djibouti, UNICEF launched a 75-day operation to provide an additional 35,000 people in water-deprived communities throughout the country with safe drinking water.
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Wednesday, September 07, 2011
There are estimated to be 1.5 million children in the south of Somalia who need immediate humanitarian assistance. In Bay area, the newest region to be declared as famine affected, malnutrition rates are nearly four times the WHO emergency threshold, with half of all children acutely malnourished.
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Monday, September 05, 2011
Due to critical needs in Tripoli, UNICEF has delivered an additional 500,000 litres of bottled water covering the needs of 24,000 people from vulnerable communities in the Libyan capital.
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Wednesday, August 31, 2011
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Mia Farrow visits the world’s largest refugee settlement in Dadaab, north-eastern Kenya.
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