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Fabled Football player David Beckham , who was spotted at the ongoing Cricket World Cup 2023, is presently on a three-day visit to India, as he is also a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.
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In a bid to accelerate the vaccination drive across the tribals, the Modi government launched a nationwide campaign in association with UNICEF and WHO
MoS for Education Sanjay Dhotre to attend meeting with E9 countries
The Boko Haram jihadist are blamed for the attack on farm workers in the North Eastern region of Nigeria has left at least 110 dead. Around 30 men were beheaded during the attack.
Since 2014, after the Narendra Modi led government came to the power, India, in partnership with UNICEF, has made remarkable strides in reaching the Open Defecation Free targets. 36 states and union territories, 706 districts and over 603,175 villages have been declared open defecation free as of Jan 2020.
Prof K. G. Suresh suggested to set up an inter-ministerial task force to increase the use of radio frequency so that the students can take its benefit even in the lock-down. He cited the example of Sierra Leone a west African country that successfully implemented similar programs during the Ebola Crisis.
Society deserves to note it's presence to run ecosystem. Each one on this sphere should respect other's fundamental rights and that their liberties. In modern world today, prestigious positions are held by women we say and they tend to enjoy the 'ladies first' policy in various fields. But problems like dowry, female infanticide, sex selective abortions, health, domestic violence take their heads out easy.
Nearly 400,000 babies were born around the world on New Year's Day with India recording the highest number of these births worldwide at 67,385, the UN children's agency said. An estimated 392,078 babies were born around the world on New Year's Day, according to UNICEF. Of this, an estimated 67,385 babies were born in India, the most globally. China comes in second with 46,299 births.
Pitching on to internationalise the Kashmir issue, Pakistan is trying all tricks from its book but fails miserably. In a latest, when Pakistan attempted to raise the Kashmir issue at a UNICEF meet in Sri Lanka on Tuesday, Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi and BJP MP Sanjay Jaiswal thwarted the attempt asserting that Kashmir was India’s internal matter.
Unique as it looks, productive so it is. Aiming to make a child-friendly environment, the Assam government has taken up a unique initiative as the state police will now have 'Child-Friendly Police Officers'. Named as the Assam Police Sishu Mitra Program, the program was launched by Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal. The initiative has been undertaken by 'Utsah', a local NGO working in the field of child welfare along with UNICEF and Assam Police.
The article published on the news portal named ‘the conversation’ (Australia Edition) by Jordan N. Galehan highlighted that Nigeria’s Boko Haram terror group recruited more women as militants and suicide bombers than any other terrorist organisation did in the past.
Cyber-crime is one of the most important problems in front states. Government is chalking out the various initiatives and policies to fight cyber-crime. Now taking significant steps in this regards, the Odisha police have decided to set up 3 more cyber police stations.
India’s pet project Swachh Bharat Mission is achieving great success with strong commitment and undivided dedication. Now, accomplishing another landmark, the global agencies like UNICEF and Gates Foundation are appreciated the success of Swachh Bharat Mission in their latest reports.
UNICEF always comes up with innovative ways to celebrates childhood and welfare of children. Now, kicking off on Saturday, the 1st ever global Parenting Month, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), is calling on world leaders to invest in family-friendly policies that support parents to give their children “the best start of life”.
“Consecutive cyclones should be an urgent wake-up call to world leaders on the grave risks that extreme whether events pose to the lives of children’’, said UNICEF on Friday after the three deadly cyclones i.e. cyclone Idai, cyclone Kenneth and cyclone Fani struck major parts of Asia and Africa.
With the death toll of 360, UN reports that Cyclone Idai may be one of the worst natural disasters to hit southern Africa in living memory.
n the Intergovernmental Conference on the Global Compact for Migration, UNICEF appalled countries to adopt the Global Compact for Migration with the commitment to ensure the well-being and protection of all migrant children.
NITI Aayog and UNICEF on Wednesday launched UNICEF- Atal Tinkering LabHackthon to encourage children towards making new innovations. The Hackthon is a 72-hour problem solving quest. The winners of hackthon will be announced on 20th of this month.
Children are the future of the country but they are also very delicate. The children aged below five are volatile to various diseases that cause death too. However, India is moving ahead and is protecting these small children very effectively with the strengthened health sector. The strengthened health sector in India has led steady reduction in death of children below the age of five by 4 percent in last five years.
Yemen has just become like another hell as the peoples are only getting killed in the war-torn country either by civil war or by an outbreak of disastrous diseases including cholera, diphtheria etc. Taking a noted on the recent attacks on Hodeida port, the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has warned of another cholera outbreak in war-torn Yemen.
The United Nations on Tuesday slammed devastating impact of Yemen's three-year conflict on children, with some 2,200 children killed, and many more going hungry, forced to fight or die due to preventable diseases. Notably, Yemen is facing worst crisis ever due to the dual attack including civil war and outbreak of cholera due to which thousands of Yemenis died.
Elongating a helping hand, the CM Yogi Adityanath led BJP government has immunized each and every kid less than 15 years of age against the Japanese Encephalitis and Acute Encephalitis Syndrome. In this regard UNICEF has also lauded the UP government for their great initiative.
Nearly half a million children have dropped out of school since the year 2015 due to the escalation of conflict and cholera outbreak in Yemen, bringing the total number of out-of-school children to 2 million. Notably, the death toll has mounted to 2,250 due to waterborne disease cholera and the suspected cases have reached over 1,060,000.
Indian women receive a perfect gift for the upcoming International Women’s day, as the country has been lauded by UNICEF was a considerable decline of child marriage. India saw a sharp decline of 20% in child marriages in the last decade. The United Nations children's agency UNICEF said that as against 47% of the girls getting married before the age of 18, a decade ago, 27% girls are getting married, now.
According to a report by UNICEF, it is a risk to be born in Pakistan as one in 22 babies born there die before they turn one month old. UNICEF released a report on Tuesday examining the death rates of newborn babies during the first 28 days of life.
Effective increase in violence across Yemen has resulted in the displacement of more than 85,000 people in just the last 10 weeks. Notably, Yemen is the world’s largest humanitarian crisis with more than 22 million in need, fuelled by ongoing conflict, a breakdown in public services and a collapsing economy.
Conflict or disaster does not affect political or economical aspects only but also the literacy level of youth. The disturbances come to the way of education of young people. Nearly 3 in 10 young people aged between 15 and 24 years old – 59 million – living in countries affected by conflict or disaster are illiterate, triple the global rate. The data has been published by UNICEF.
The situation in Yemen has gone to worst as it is suffering from dual attack ie. civil war and another one from the outbreak of cholera. The civil war in Yemen has killed or injured more than 5,000 children and left another 400,000 severely malnourished and fighting for their lives.
India has become the No 1 nation with the most number of babies born on the New Year's Day. Among 386,000 babies born across the world, 69,070 were Indians, according to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
Today’s babies are tomorrow’s youth and driving force of society. But pollution has started causing such a massive, worldwide effect that almost 17 million babies under the age of one are vulnerable to pollution. More horrifying fact is pollution can harm damage their developing brains along with developing lungs. It is definitely high time to get united against pollution.
Attempting to aid in break the restrictions around toilets, the United General Assembly has chosen 19 November as World Toilet Day. Titled as “Sanitation for All” earlier, this was taken to encourage the access to sanitation among the poor and to finish the practice of open-air defecation which is harmful to public health.
Along with several other problems, child marriage is another social disease in West and Central Africa. So many unfortunate girls miss their basic rights to health, education, and losses their chilhood every year. The latest report of UNICEF says if proper progress does not accelerate in the region, ending child marriage in West and Central Africa will take more than 100 years.
A national media consultation which was conducted on the Swachh Bharat Mission in New Delhi was attended by the Journalists, development agencies and community workers.
The first ever National Conference on Under-Nutrition in the country by Women and Child Development (WCD) Ministry held on Tuesday in New Delhi. The main aim of this conference is to make India Malnutrition Free by 2022.
