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United Nations Nations Unies Joint statement by WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi, UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake, WFP Executive Director David Beasley, IOM Director General William Lacy Swing, and Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock. 2 December 2017 Geneva/Rome/New York … Continued
World Children’s Day activities in over 130 countries to provide platform for children to speak out about their concerns; advocate for children being left behind In Ireland, An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar to participate in #KidsTakeOver *NOTE* Videos and photos of the below events can be downloaded here. UNICEF Ireland has photographs it can make available … Continued
DUBLIN, 9 November 2017 – UNICEF and Twitter held a special consultation on digital literacy and activism with 50 teenagers in Dublin today. The group were invited to Twitter EMEA HQ to work on solutions to the challenges arising from the influence of digital on young people. At the #DigitalYouth17 event, Transition Year students from … Continued
DUBLIN/ GENEVA/ COX’S BAZAR/NEW YORK, 3 November 2017 – Preliminary data from a nutrition assessment conducted last week at Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, shows a 7.5 per cent prevalence of life-threatening severe acute malnutrition – a rate double that seen among Rohingya child refugees in May 2017, UNICEF said today. “The Rohingya … Continued
Cholera and malnutrition among main dangers as refugee camps swell UNICEF urges donors to support humanitarian appeals ahead of international pledging conference DUBLIN/DHAKA, BANGLADESH/GENEVA, 20 October 2017 – Desperate living conditions and waterborne diseases are threatening more than 320,000 Rohingya refugee children who have fled to southern Bangladesh since late August, including some 10,000 who … Continued
COX’S BAZAR, BANGLADESH / DUBLIN, 10 October 2017 – A massive cholera immunisation campaign started today near Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, to protect newly arrived Rohingya and host communities from the life-threatening diarrheal disease. 900,000 doses of the vaccine have been mobilised and are being delivered by more than 200 mobile vaccination teams, making it the … Continued
Saolta Group, HSE and NUI Galway launch 2017/2018 flu vaccine campaign and partner with UNICEF to help eradicate polio “Get a vaccine, give a vaccine” 1 Flu Vaccine = 10 Polio Vaccines The Saolta University Health Care Group and HSE Community Healthcare Organisation CHO2 (Galway, Mayo and Roscommon,) together with the College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences … Continued
DUBLIN, 20 September 2017 – Minister for Education and Skills, Richard Bruton TD today took part in the World’s Largest Lesson along with secondary school students at Santa Sabina Dominican College in Sutton, and UNICEF Ireland, and in support of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs (also known as Global Goals)). UNICEF and its partners launched … Continued
More than 10 million children live in countries threatened by Hurricane Irma UNICEF concerned hundreds of thousands of children could be directly affected PANAMA CITY/NEW YORK, 7 September 2017 – More than 10.5 million children live in the countries that are likely to be exposed to the damage from Hurricane Irma, UNICEF warned today. Based … Continued
FREETOWN / DAKAR / NEW YORK, 17 August 2017 – UNICEF is on the ground urgently responding to the needs of displaced families affected by the flooding and landslides in Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown which have killed several hundred people including at least 109 children, according to government sources. The death-toll is expected to rise, … Continued
With support from Google.org and HP Inc., the Clooney Foundation for Justice’s $2.25 million partnership and $1 million technology grant will enroll thousands of currently out-of-school refugees in formal education and provide additional support for Lebanese and Syrian children in public schools across Lebanon NEW YORK, 31 July 2017 – The Clooney Foundation for Justice today … Continued
UNICEF and the children it supports to benefit from innovative approach to fundraising. Frank Keane BMW customers offered opportunity to support vulnerable children. UNICEF Ireland choose BMW i brand due to exemplary ‘green’ whole vehicle life credentials. It is with a common vision that UNICEF Ireland and Frank Keane BMW have today announced a partnership … Continued
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