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Ten years and four rulings later, First Nations children still waiting for equity

On June 21, Canada celebrates National Aboriginal Day.

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

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.

Bullying - Record It. Report It. Don’t Support It.

What do you think about when you hear the word “bullying”? I think that many people probably find themselves imagining a classic school scenario, where you’re being beat up for lunch money, the jock of the school threatening you with a defiant punch in the face and maybe a scared group of kids slyly turning their backs off to the side. We are educated in schools about what it means to be a bully, and how to react as a bystander (don’t stand by), but do people know about the effects of bullying and the subconscious actions which sometimes hurt even more?

Crisis ‘far from over’ as malnutrition, thirst and disease threaten lives of millions of children in north-east Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen

Continued humanitarian action crucial in saving children’s lives

I am a Person, Not an Illness

In response to UNICEF Report Card 14, which ranks Canada 25 out of 41 rich countries in child well-being, Canadian youth are speaking out about the issues that matter to them

Statement from UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake and WHO Director-General Margaret Chan on the cholera outbreak in Yemen as suspected cases exceed 200,000

The rapidly spreading cholera outbreak in Yemen has exceeded 200,000 suspected cases, increasing at an average of 5,000 a day. We are now facing the worst cholera outbreak in the world.

Investments in poor children save more lives per dollar spent, new UNICEF study says

Unless the world makes faster progress on reducing child mortality, by 2030 almost 70 million children will die before reaching their fifth birthday.

UNICEF AIRLIFTS LIFE-SAVING SUPPLIES TO YEMEN TO COMBAT CHOLERA AS CASES SURPASS 200,000

Three UNICEF charter planes have delivered 36 tons of life-saving medical and water purification supplies to Yemen to scale up efforts to combat the world’s worst cholera outbreak.

Children continue to bear the brunt of multiple emergencies in Sudan

UNICEF urgently requires US$22 million to provide lifesaving response for over 100,000 children

Teens Talk, but is Canada Listening?

I wasn’t sure where to start this blog post, whether it be with a personal story of my own suicide attempts or if I should jump into the threatening statistics of teen suicide and how unrighteously they are disregarded.