UNICEF 60th anniversary 1960-1979: the development decades
UNICEF was to provide more than just humanitarian relief: in addition to nutrition and health, education and family issues became an additional focus. UNICEF's work was now to become a key to global development.Education, of course, is central to fostering that
development, especially in the many newly independent nations in Africa, and fully half of UNICEF spending was dedicated to learning. UNICEF's work was in the global spotlight mid-decade, as Executive Director Henry Labouisse accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo.Public support and funds for children through the National Committees expanded, and the greeting card operation flourished. In Nigeria, a brutal civil war made it clear that emergencies - whether man-made or acts of nature - are the rule, not the exception in children's lives, and UNICEF did not lose sight of its roots, bringing emergency relief back to its program of long-term development aid.
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Category: Human Services
UNICEF was to provide more than just humanitarian relief: in addition to nutrition and health, education and family issues became an additional focus. UNICEF's work was now to become a key to global development.Education, of...
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Category: Human Services
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Category: Human Services
The school is far away from home and we have to walk long distance on foot
because there is no transport due to road blockages. Much of the school year
has elapsed and we did not receive anything other than the textbooks....
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Category: International & Intercultural
Muhammad Yunus of Bangladesh and the Grameen Bank have been jointly awarded the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.
Mr Yunus, an economist, founded the bank, which is one of the pioneers of micro-credit lending schemes for the poor, especially...
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Category: International & Intercultural
Muhammad Yunus of Bangladesh and the Grameen Bank have been jointly awarded the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.
Mr Yunus, an economist, founded the bank, which is one of the pioneers of micro-credit lending schemes for the poor, especially...
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Category: International & Intercultural
Muhammad Yunus of Bangladesh and the Grameen Bank have been jointly awarded the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.
Mr Yunus, an economist, founded the bank, which is one of the pioneers of micro-credit lending schemes for the poor, especially...
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Category: Education & Career
As a child, Mayom Mabuoung was a soldier in Southern Sudan.
Like many other children, Mayom’s transition to civilian life in southern Sudan was not easy.
Mayom was like thousands of child soldiers who were demobilized after...
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Category: Politics & Goverment
Fifteen year old "Simon" tends garden in the camp in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo where he has lived
for six months.
Before that, he was a soldier … forced to fight in the country's relentless civil war, along with...
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Category: Politics & Goverment
I joined the army when I was fifteen years old.
I don't know if I can say that I went willingly. I was afraid to be taken by force.
I was in the Mayi-Mayi group. The Mayi-Mayi are a group of soldiers from the Congo. They unite to...
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Displaced and destitute. Recent fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has left a humanitarian crisis.
Thousands have been helped already – families have been registered, children vaccinated against deadly diseases
and...
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Category: Animals & Species
With financial support from Greenpeace, humpback whales have been tagged by the Cook Islands Whale Research and Opération Cétacés. The satellite tagging, skin biopsies and photo identification has already provided a huge amount of...
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whale, whale tagging, greenpeace, humpback whale, cook islands, whale research, migration, scientific whaling, international whaling commission, marine wildlife, whale watching
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Category: Education & Career
Progress has come quickly to Southern Sudan. Two years after a historic peace agreement ended Africa's longest-running civil war, urban roads are congested with traffic and classrooms that once lacked students are now...
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education, southern sudan, unicef, school, africa, sudan, children, rural schools, children, urban areas, civil war
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