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UNICEF calling for famine and food crisis donations in final week of Government of Canada match

Publication date: June 23, 2017

Canadians have just one week left to have their donations to the famine and food crisis matched by the Government of Canada’s Famine Relief Fund and UNICEF is calling for life-saving donations by the June 30 match deadline.

New UNICEF report: Poor health, violence at alarming rates among Canada’s kids

Publication date: June 14, 2017

Canada ranks 25th among 41 rich countries in child and youth well-being

Canada puts international assistance to work for women, girls

Publication date: June 9, 2017

UNICEF Canada responds to Government of Canada’s new international assistance policy

More than 1,000 children seek treatment for watery diarrhoea daily as number of suspected cholera cases in Yemen soars

Publication date: May 31, 2017

More than 10,000 total new cases reported in the last three days alone

Minister Sajjan, Lt. General (ret’d) Roméo Dallaire, join South Sudanese advocate and entrepreneur James Thuch Madhier and leading child rights agencies to mark International Peacekeeping Day

Publication date: May 29, 2017

Ahead of the anticipated release of Canada’s new defence policy, Minister of National Defence, The Honourable Harjit Sajjan and retired lieutenant-general Roméo Dallaire join South Sudanese refugee and social entrepreneur James Thuch Madhier in an open discussion on Canada’s role in protecting children in conflict.

Canada’s Famine Relief Fund critical to getting life-saving support to 1.4 million children at risk

Publication date: May 29, 2017

UNICEF Canada responds to Government of Canada Announcement

At least 200 children lost at sea trying to reach Italian shores so far this year

Publication date: May 25, 2017

As G7 leaders gather in Taormina, Sicily, UNICEF urges them to adopt six-point action agenda to keep refugee and migrant children safe

UNICEF Child Alert on Myanmar: Fruits of rapid development and reconciliation efforts yet to reach remote, conflict-affected regions

Publication date: May 23, 2017

Unresolved conflict, poverty and under-development are preventing children in more remote parts of Myanmar from reaping the benefits of the reform and reconciliation efforts being undertaken by the Government, says the UN children’s agency, UNICEF.

From cholera in Yemen to attacks on hospitals in Syria, conflict threatens lives of over 24 million children in the Middle East and North Africa

Publication date: May 23, 2017

Violence and conflict in the Middle East and North Africa have put in jeopardy the health of 24 million children in Yemen, Syria, the Gaza Strip, Iraq, Libya and Sudan.

H&M Foundation and UNICEF renew partnership to make children’s early moments matter

Publication date: May 23, 2017

The non-profit H&M Foundation and UNICEF today renewed their mutual commitment to improving children’s early development. The three-year partnership will continue to build on the achievements made by the organizations’ previous collaboration, aimed at driving an increased understanding of how experience and environment during early childhood can permanently and positively shape brain development.

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UNICEF calling for famine and food crisis donations in final week of Government of Canada match

New UNICEF report: Poor health, violence at alarming rates among Canada’s kids

Canada puts international assistance to work for women, girls

More than 1,000 children seek treatment for watery diarrhoea daily as number of suspected cholera cases in Yemen soars

Minister Sajjan, Lt. General (ret’d) Roméo Dallaire, join South Sudanese advocate and entrepreneur James Thuch Madhier and leading child rights agencies to mark International Peacekeeping Day

Canada’s Famine Relief Fund critical to getting life-saving support to 1.4 million children at risk

At least 200 children lost at sea trying to reach Italian shores so far this year

UNICEF Child Alert on Myanmar: Fruits of rapid development and reconciliation efforts yet to reach remote, conflict-affected regions

From cholera in Yemen to attacks on hospitals in Syria, conflict threatens lives of over 24 million children in the Middle East and North Africa

H&M Foundation and UNICEF renew partnership to make children’s early moments matter

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