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UNICEF renews Pakistan flood appeal as 10 more people die

Officials say the devastating floods in Pakistan’s worst-hit province have killed 10 more people in the past day, including four children

The Independent UK

11 schoolchildren killed in Myanmar air strike: Unicef

YANGON: At least 11 schoolchildren died in an air strike and firing on a Myanmar village, the UN children's agency said, an attack the country's junta said targeted rebels hiding in the area.

Bangkok Post

Entertainment: Priyanka Chopra gives empowering speech at UN General Assembly; Check out what she said

Actress Priyanka Chopra addressed the United Nations General Assembly on Monday and spoke in depth about the problems the world is facing currently. Read more on Dynamite News:

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At UN, leaders confront COVID's impact on global education

School disruptions from the COVID-19 pandemic have set back children around the globe, from the United States to sub-Saharan Africa

The Independent UK

How Pakistani entrepreneurs stepped in after flood disaster

Dozens of entrepreneurs and non-profits came forward to help as the country was overwhelmed by worst floods in decades.

Al Jazeera

PHOTOS: The moms (and dads) of Ivory Coast are falling in love with kangaroo care

Can the warmth of a parent's chest be a boon to babies, especially premature births? In the 1970s, Colombian researchers found it did. The technique has gone global. Ivory Coast is the latest convert.

WEKU

‘Oorum, uyirum’ launched in Wayanad

The programme aims to combat malnutrition among tribespeople

The Hindu

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‘Africa is on the frontlines but not the front pages’: Vanessa Nakate on her climate fight

The new Unicef goodwill ambassador would like to see reparations from nations most responsible for climate crisis

The Guardian - US

Who funds CPR, the ‘centrist’ think tank under Income Tax scanner?

The Centre for Policy Research, which has recently come under the tax scanner for alleged irregularities in funding, prides itself on staying true to its “non-partisan” and “independent” values. Since its inception in 1973, the think tank has undertaken studies on almost every topic under the sun, and its academic…

Newslaundry

New UNICEF Ambassador Seeks to Give Louder Voice to Climate Change Victims

Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate recently traveled to the drought-ravaged Horn of Africa to hear from children suffering from starvation. The next day she learned that one of the boys she met had died. It is for such children, whose lives have been shattered by the global climate crisis, that…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Nakate: Leaders are missing the human face of climate change

Vanessa Nakate’s climate activism over the past three years has propelled her to the world stage as UNICEF's newest goodwill ambassador

The Independent UK

UNICEF names climate activist Vanessa Nakate goodwill ambassador

U.N. children's agency UNICEF on Thursday named Vanessa Nakate, a 25-year-old Ugandan climate activist, goodwill ambassador.

Reuters

Move to enrol out-of-school children in schools in A.P.

Unicef app to be used for the purpose in a few districts initially

The Hindu

Ukraine seeks to trace thousands of 'orphans' scattered by war

Ukraine says it dismissed nearly 100,000 children from institutional care. With help from U.N. child agency UNICEF, it is still trying to reach some 26,000 of them.

Reuters

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Radio France Internationale

Police seek to build trust with child victims in India's Rajasthan

In many parts of the western Indian state of Rajasthan, child labour is prevalent, with those forced to do menial jobs often victims of trafficking. Handling rescued children is a sensitive process that requires special skills – something the police are looking to improve on.

Al Jazeera

Afghan girls take to streets to protest school closure in Paktia

Dozens of girls rally in Gardez after Taliban shuts four schools, which were reopened on intervention of tribal elders.

Reuters

A child's death highlights threat posed to young by Pakistan's floods

In the hours before her six-year-old son died in her lap, Badar Bibi recalled how she rushed from a field clinic set up to treat people caught in Pakistan's worst floods in decades to a city hospital, desperate to bring down the boy's fever.

Asharq Al-Awsat

UN: More Than 700 Children Die in Somalia Nutrition Centers

Hundreds of children have already died in nutrition centers across Somalia, the UN children's agency (UNICEF) said on Tuesday, a day after the global body warned that parts of Somalia will be hit by famine in the coming months. The Horn of Africa region is on track for a fifth…

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Reuters

More than 700 children have died in Somalia nutrition centres, U.N. says

Hundreds of children have died in nutrition centres across Somalia, the U.N. children's agency (UNICEF) said on Tuesday, a day after the global body warned that parts of the country will be hit by famine in coming months.

Radio France Internationale

Measles outbreak in Zimbabwe kills 700 children despite available vaccine

UNICEF says it is "deeply concerned" after Zimbabwe's health ministry confirmed that nearly 700 children have died from the latest outbreak of measles. A vaccine campaign is underway but faces resistance from anti-vaccine religious groups.

The Independent UK

UNHCR rushes aid to Pakistan amid raging floods in south

Officials say four planes carrying aid for Pakistani flood victims from the UN refugee are arriving in this impoverished Islamic nation

Bangkok Post

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Pakistan breaches lake to help save city from flooding as death toll climbs to 1,300

Pakistani engineers cut into embankment for one of country’s largest lakes

Daily Mirror

Heartbreaking attempt by teachers to decorate bomb shelters transformed into makeshift classrooms in Ukraine

Ukrainian teachers have taken to decorating bomb shelters as children return to school in the country. The war is still raging on, but brave teachers and pupils are continuing their education

Reuters

Many more children may die in Pakistan after floods, UN says

The United Nations children's agency (UNICEF) said on Friday there was a risk of "many more" child deaths in Pakistan from disease after floods claimed the lives of around 400.

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