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Get Involved: 5 Organizations Fighting Hunger And Poverty In The U.S.

Posted 05.31.2012

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The United States ranks second in the world for highest relative child poverty rates at 23.1 percent, according to a recent study by UNICEF. Find ...

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UNICEF Report: U.S. Child Poverty Second Highest

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 05.31.2012

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Can government spending lift poor children from poverty? A new report from UNICEF suggests it's possible. The latest edition of UNICEF's report on ...

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Counting the Days Until She Turns Five

Anu Gupta | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Johnson and Johnson, Unicef, Bblog-Globalmotherhood, Global Motherhood, Impact News

When my daughter was born, more than a million HIV positive mothers worldwide had to temper their dreams and aspirations for their newborns, knowing that they could pass HIV onto their children. In fact, 80 percent of HIV+ children die before the age of five.

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Home-Based Newborn Care: Reaching the Hard-to-Reach

Rajesh Anandan | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Johnson and Johnson, Newborn Care, Home Care, Rajesh Anandan, Unicef, Global Motherhood, Bblog-Globalmotherhood, Impact News

Each day, an estimated 8,000 babies die within the first 28 days of life. Most of these babies are born in developing countries, where births occur at home, because the health facility is too far, care is not free, or home birth is the social norm.

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Dayle Haddon: 'Giving Back Makes Me Feel Young And Beautiful'

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Aging, Unicef, L'Oreal, Activism, Fashion, Beauty, Fifty News, Dayle Haddon, Kenya, Haiti, Congo, Womenone, Fifty News

Dayle Haddon, a top model in the 70s and 80s, was 38 when her husband died unexpectedly. Left without an economic base or source of income, she tried to go back to the world of fashion and beauty, and was succinctly told that she was "over the hill."

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5 Ways To Bring Clean Water To Those In Need During Drinking Water Week

Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Clean Drinking Water, Video, The Water Project, Drinking Water Week, Waves for Water, Water, water.org, Unicef, Matt Damon, Drinking Water, Slidepollajax, Bottled Water, Charity: Water, Impact News

For most of us, Drinking Water Week means swapping soda for H20 and making sure we fill up on our daily 64-ounce requirement. But while we make a c...

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Good Things Come in Different-Sized Packages

Dr. Orin Levine | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Polio, Expanded Programme on Immunization, Measles, Unicef, Diarrhea, Pneumonia, Ivac, GAVI Alliance, World Health Organization, Vaccines, Project Optimize, Video, Impact News

Decisions around vaccine container size and type -- whether single-dose vial, multi-dose container or pre-filled syringe -- have important implications for a variety of stakeholders.

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Selena Gomez Named Charity Ambassador To Ryan Seacrest Foundation

Posted 04.24.2012

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At 18, actress and singer Selena Gomez became UNICEF's youngest ambassador. At 19, her charitable ways are far from slowing down. The Ryan Seacrest...

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Every Child Deserves A 5th Birthday

Dr. Rajiv Shah | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Usaid, Global Health, Children, Slidepollajax, Global Motherhood, Unicef, Child Survival, Child Health, Foreign Policy, Parents, Impact News

As a father of three, I see unlimited potential when I look at my children. And I am reminded that my own parents came to the United States from India so that my sister and I could have a strong education and greater opportunity in life.

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Learning: Where New Philanthropy Meets Old

Jane Wales | Posted 04.16.2012

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We often refer to the debt we owe to Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller for translating their charitable impulse into organized philanthropy, pro...

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A Call To Protect All Children

Geeta Rao Gupta | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Haiti Earthquake, Children, Child Soldiers, Sex Trade, Kony 2012, Global Motherhood, Unicef, Children Refugees, Sweatshops, Home News

All of these children are in need of rescue -- all are children whose potential contributions to their society are being lost. All are a challenge to our consciences and to our capacity to do what we all instinctively want to do when we see a child in danger -- to save that child.

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Water and Sanitation for the World: Not a Pipe Dream

Jan Eliasson | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: World Water Day, Unicef, Africa, Sanitation, Water Pollution, Clean Water, Wateraid, Water Sanitation, Water Crisis, Impact News

Unfortunately, 783 million people -- 11 percent of the global population -- still have no access to clean water. For context, that is more than two and a half times the population of the United States.

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Lenny Kravitz Taps Into The Global Water Crisis

HuffingtonPost.com | Brennan Williams | Posted 03.22.2012

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In support of this week's World Water Week, Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Lenny Kravitz has teamed up with UNICEF's Tap Campaign to help enco...

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5 Ways To Take Action On World Water Day

Posted 03.22.2012

Read More: Spring Into Action, Gary White, Video, World Water Day, Waves for Water, Water, Clean-Water, water.org, Matt Damon, Unicef, Slidepollajax, Charity: Water, Free Water Project, Impact News

According to Water.org, every 20 seconds a child dies from a water-related disease. But children aren't the only ones affected by the worldwide wat...

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On World Water Day, Fight For Clean Water, Sanitation

Steven M. Hilton | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Clean Water, Unicef, World Water Day, Conrad Hilton Foundation, Water, Hilton Foundation, Clean-Water, Impact News

We reached the Millennium Development Goals water target because we made clean water a global priority and worked in partnership to achieve it. We need the same single-minded purpose and renewed partnership now.

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The #1 Easiest Way To Take Action During World Water Week

Posted 03.21.2012

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The next time you're automatically handed that glass of water in your favorite restaurant, UNICEF urges you to realize how fortunate you are -- and th...

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The Global Search for Education: Water

C. M. Rubin | Posted 05.21.2012

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World Water Day on March 22 is a day on which all global citizens should focus their attention on the importance of fresh water to sustainable development.

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Saw Kony 2012? A Must Read New Book on Conflict and Aid

Tom Murphy | Posted 05.20.2012

The timing of the Kony 2012 campaign is quite apt in light of the recent release of Dr Samantha Nutt's memoir-cum-aid commentary Damned Nations: Greed, Guns, Armies & Aid.

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WATCH: Heidi Klum Sings Karaoke For Charity

Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: Tom Hanks, Kristin-Bell, UNICEF USA, Video, Children's Relief Fund, Karaoke, Charity, Rita Wilson, Heidi Klum, Playlist With the a-List, Unicef, Don Cheadle, Impact News

The end of her seven-year marriage was the thing making headlines until Heidi Klum gave fans a more benevolent story to talk about Thursday. The su...

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Can Business Uphold Children's Rights?

David Mepham | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Human Rights, Children's Rights, Unicef, Corporate Social Responsibility, Csr, Human Rights Watch, Children's Rights and Business Principles, Impact News

Despite a plethora of international initiatives on corporate social responsibility, none has focused exclusively on the impact of business on children's rights.

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Global Food Security: The Biggest Challenge for Our World

Richard Attias | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Yemen, Somalia, Unicef, Un, Global Food Security, US Department of Agriculture, Famine, Food Insecurity, Food Security, Impact News

As climate change affects weather patterns across the globe, and political tensions flare up, food security will become one of the most pressing issues for the world's leaders to deal with.

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Few Celebrating MDG Success in Water

Ned Breslin | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Global Health, Polio, Millennium Development Goals, Polio Vaccine, United Nations, Clean Water, Clean-Water, Public Health, Unicef, Drinking Water, Sanitation, Impact News

Access means that there is a tap nearby that people could use. Functionality means that water actually flows from that tap. Far too often the tap does not produce water, so it is therefore not effective at what the Millennium Development Goal is really trying to do -- eradicate water poverty.

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'Kony 2012:' Invisible Children And 7 Other Charities Fighting For Child Soldiers

The Huffington Post | Eleanor Goldberg | Posted 03.09.2012

The “Kony 2012” video campaign against Joseph Kony, the leader of Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army, was met with fiery reactions across the board a...

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World Meets U.N. Target For Safe Drinking Water

AP | EDITH M. LEDERER | Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: World Health Organization, Clean Water Goal, Water, Ban Ki-Moon, United Nations, Clean Water, Margaret Chan, U.N. Millennium Development Goals, Anthony Lake, Unicef, Impact News

UNITED NATIONS -- The world's nations achieved a U.N. goal of cutting in half the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water five year...

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A Look Into The Harrowing Living Conditions Of Millions Of Children

AP | OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Unicef Children, Unicef Urban Poverty, Urban Poverty, Children Urban Areas, Unicef Children Urban Areas, Unicef, Children Urban Poverty, World News

MEXICO CITY — Millions of children are growing up in squalid urban areas and denied basic services despite living close to them, the United Nati...

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