UNICEF Executive Board

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Executive Board delegates visit Niger to assess progress and set priorities for the future
NIAMEY, Niger, 7 April 2008 – Members of the Executive Board have concluded a working visit to Niger that provided them with an overview of UNICEF’s contribution towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals in one the world’s poorest countries.

UNICEF Executive Board wraps up field visit to Lao PDR
VIENTIANE, Lao PDR, 20 February, 2008 – Members of UNICEF’s Executive Board have ended a week-long visit to Lao PDR that gave them an overview of UNICEF’s contribution to development work in one of Southeast Asia’s poorest nations.

Executive Board concludes its first regular session of 2008
NEW YORK, USA, 4 February 2008 – This year’s first regular session of the UNICEF Executive Board ended on Friday as it began four days earlier, with discussions on the critically important subject of child protection strategy.

Executive Board honours First Lady of Panama for work with disabled children
NEW YORK, USA, 1 February 2008 – Panamanian President Martin Torrijos, First Lady of the United States Laura Bush and her daughter Jenna Bush were on hand yesterday – day three of the UNICEF Executive Board’s first regular session of 2008 – to honour the First Lady of Panama, Vivian Fernandez de Torrijos, for her work with people with disabilities.

Executive Board looks towards stronger partnerships for child protection
NEW YORK, USA, 31 January 2008 – Safeguarding the rights of children to health, education and a protective environment is at the heart of UNICEF’s work. It therefore came as no surprise that issues of child protection strategy dominated the second day of the UNICEF Executive Board’s first regular session of 2008, which is being held at UN headquarters this week.

UNICEF Executive Board opens its first session of the new year
NEW YORK, USA, 30 January 2008 – UNICEF’s Executive Board convened its first regular session of 2008 yesterday in the Economic and Social Council chamber at United Nations headquarters in New York.

UNICEF board members review multi-year child protection strategy
NEW YORK, USA, 7 September 2007 – On the third and final day of their current session, members of the UNICEF Executive Board today reviewed the organization’s child protection strategy for the next five years.

UNICEF Executive Board reviews country programmes that help societies rebuild
NEW YORK, USA, 6 September 2007 – On the second day of their current session in New York, UNICEF Executive Board members today continued their discussion of the programmes of 17 country offices planning their work for the next five years.

UNICEF Executive Board discusses recent emergency response and looks to the future
NEW YORK, USA, 5 September 2007 – UNICEF's Executive Board opened its second regular session of 2007 in New York today. Meeting through 7 September, board members will examine existing programmes in a total of 17 countries in order to define focus areas and create a framework for progress over the next five years.

Executive Board focuses on security and development in post-conflict Liberia
NEW YORK, 7 June 2007 – History has shown that more than half of post-conflict countries slide back into conflict within five years of achieving peace. On the final day of its 2007 annual meeting, UNICEF’s Executive Board focused on preventing such an outcome in Liberia, which has just emerged from a 14-year civil war.

Executive Board faces the challenge of ending child hunger and undernutrition
NEW YORK, USA, 6 June 2007 – An estimated 181 million children were underweight in 1990, at that time accounting for nearly one third of all world’s children. Since then, the number has dropped sharply to 149 million.

Executive Board looks at UNICEF’s priorities in education for all
NEW YORK, 5 June 2007 – UNICEF’s Executive Board today reviewed its programming priorities in education, looking at strategies to help achieve the goal of providing quality education for all children.

Executive Board reviews progress and achievements for children in 2006
NEW YORK, 4 June 2007 – UNICEF’s Executive Board today opened its annual session in New York.

UNICEF Executive Board witnesses progress for at-risk children in Kyrgyzstan
ISSYK-ATINSKIY, Kyrgyzstan, 1 May 2007 – Following on the heels of missions earlier this year to Liberia, Panama and Peru, members of the UNICEF Executive Board have just returned from Kyrgyzstan, where they visited UNICEF-supported projects to help at-risk children and families.

UNICEF Executive Board heads to Peru
NEW YORK, USA, 4 April 2007 - UNICEF’s Executive Board, led by Board President Ambassador Javier Loayza Barea of Bolivia, recently visited Peru to see how UNICEF’s work has helped to tackle some of the issues in this developing society.

UN Executive Boards complete mission to post-war Liberia
MONROVIA, Liberia, 7 March 2007 – After more than 14 years of civil conflict, Liberia is moving forward on the road to recovery.

Liberia’s President tells UN and UNICEF delegates education is key to development
MONROVIA, Liberia, 28 February 2007 – The President of Liberia has emphasized the urgent need to get children back to school as her country struggles to rebuild after almost 15 years of civil conflict.

Board concludes its first session of 2007
NEW YORK, USA, 18 January 2007 – On the final day of the UNICEF Executive Board’s first session of 2007, discussions on budget issues, child hunger and undernutrition, education and child protection topped the agenda.

Board session focuses on achieving Millennium Development Goals in Africa
NEW YORK, USA, 17 January 2007 – Africa dominated the agenda on the second day of the UNICEF Executive Board’s first regular session of 2007, held at United Nations headquarters in New York today.

UNICEF Executive Board opens its first regular session of 2007
NEW YORK, USA, 16 January 2007 – UNICEF’s Executive Board opened today its first regular session of 2007 at United Nations headquarters in New York.

Board wraps up final regular session of 2006
NEW YORK, USA, 8 September 2006 – The UNICEF Executive Board, which wrapped up its second and final regular session of 2006 today, took the unprecedented step this week of focusing on the problems of a specific region – Latin America and the Caribbean.

Executive Board focuses on excluded groups in Latin America and the Caribbean
NEW YORK, USA, 7 September 2006 – At the second regular session of the 2006 UNICEF Executive Board, representatives of indigenous and Afro-descendent groups in Latin America and the Caribbean voiced concerns about the exclusion facing their communities.

UNICEF honours William Sergeant for his work fighting polio
NEW YORK, USA, 6 September 2006 – The UNICEF Executive Board has honoured former Rotary International leader William Sergeant for his longstanding commitment in helping to create a polio-free world.

UNICEF Executive Board engages in ‘frank dialogue’ on closing day of Annual Session
NEW YORK, USA, 9 June 2006 – UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman thanked delegates of the UNICEF Executive Board for “frank dialogue” and “productive work” during the board’s Annual Session 2006, which ended today.

UNICEF Executive Board hears ‘no compromise’ in fight to end violence against children
NEW YORK, USA, 8 June 2006 – The UNICEF Executive Board has heard a renewed call to end violence against children. The independent expert appointed by the United Nations to lead a global study on the subject, Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro, updated delegates on collaboration between the UN, the Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights and UNICEF.

At Executive Board, African members urge greater collaboration to end child hunger
NEW YORK, USA, 7 June 2006 – UNICEF Executive Board members from African countries today called for an integrated approach to child survival that addresses all of the underlying causes of hunger and undernutrition.

Post-crisis transition strategy presented to UNICEF Executive Board for approval
NEW YORK, USA, 6 June 2006 – The UNICEF Executive Board has generally welcomed the organization’s new post-crisis transition strategy for 2006-2009, which was outlined to them today by UNICEF Director of Programmes Alan Court. Delegates spent much of this morning discussing the strategy, which UNICEF hopes will be adopted by the end of the week.

At board session, UNICEF Executive Director calls for funding of ‘forgotten’ emergencies
NEW YORK, USA, 5 June 2006 – UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman set a determined tone today at the start of the UNICEF Executive Board’s second regular session of 2006, focusing on the urgent need to address crises that threaten the lives and well-being of children around the world.

In India, UNICEF Executive Board members take pulse of progress toward MDGs
NEW DELHI, India, 25 May 2006 – Richa Devi, 11, is used to teaching the younger children in her school how to wash their hands properly. This week she had a new student, UNICEF Executive Board President Andrei Dapkiunas.

Executive Board delegates visit Darfur refugees in Chad and witness UNICEF in action
NEW YORK, 10 April 2006 – At a refugee camp in Chad, women and children fleeing violence across the border in Darfur, Sudan are given nutrition and medical care. Some have walked for days to get there. They describe how their men were murdered, their homes and communities destroyed.

UNICEF Executive Board President Andrei Dapkiunas visits the Central African Republic
NEW YORK, USA, 10 March 2006 – The President of UNICEF’s Executive Board, Andrei Dapkiunas, has just completed a five-day visit to the Central African Republic to raise awareness of children’s urgent needs after years of political turmoil.