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J8 Summit widens the horizons of participants, including a 16-year-old US delegate
NEW YORK, USA, 18 July 2008 – The 2008 Junior 8 Summit concluded in Japan last week with a standing ovation from all 39 delegates.
‘The Survival Project’: CNN programme shines spotlight on UNICEF work
NEW YORK, USA, 3 July 2008 – UNICEF will be the focus of a special global broadcast on CNN and CNN International this Sunday.
Documentary on Zambian women honoured at Jackson Hole Film Festival
NEW YORK, USA, June 25, 2008 – ‘Where the Water Meets the Sky’, the first documentary film from the Campaign for Female Education (Camfed), was honoured with the ‘Best Global Insight’ award last week at the Jackson Hole Film Festival in Wyoming.
Promoting sustainable sanitation as a development cornerstone
NEW YORK, USA, 8 May 2008 – Water and sanitation experts joined financing professionals at UNICEF House in New York yesterday to identify sustainable methods of providing clean water and safe sanitation to those who lack these basic rights.
UNICEF Executive Director joins V-Day to focus on stopping rape in DR Congo
NEW ORLEANS, USA, 15 April 2008 – UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman joined thousands of supporters and activists to celebrate the 10th anniversary of V-Day, a global movement to end violence against women and girls. Over the past decade, V-Day has raised over $50 million and educated millions of people about violence against women and how to end it.
Celebrating the Tap Project to provide safe water for the world’s children
NEW YORK, USA, 20 March 2008 – As a glittery New York City event last night celebrated the success and the future of the Tap Project, rain poured down outside. The weather was just one reminder of the importance of bringing safe water to children around the world – the ultimate goal of this initiative.
Successful US Tap Project goes nationwide for World Water Week
NEW YORK, USA, 18 March 2008 — Last year’s successful New York City restaurant campaign to provide safe drinking water to the world’s children has gone national.
Children and parents learn together at Columbia University Early Head Start Centre
NEW YORK CITY, USA, 3 March 2008 – Sunlight streams through the windows of the classroom at the Columbia University Early Head Start Centre – part of a federally funded, nationwide, community-based programme for low-income families with infants and toddlers, as well as pregnant women.
Consultation on maternal and child health inequities held in New York
NEW YORK, USA, 12 February 2008 – Ensuring that poor and marginalized children and mothers have access to quality health care services was the main subject at the UNICEF-convened consultation, ‘Increasing the Contribution of Health Systems to Health Equity’, held last week at the organization’s New York headquarters.
Dr. T. Berry Brazelton discusses ‘Touchpoints’ in early childhood
NEW YORK, USA, 5 February 2008 – Changing the way early childhood and parenting are viewed could be instrumental in helping to reach vulnerable children and strengthen the communities that support their development.
San Marino-UNICEF Awards honour youth participation in community programming
NEW YORK, USA, 4 February 2008 – Last Friday, the Republic of San Marino hosted the second annual San Marino-UNICEF Awards dinner in New York. The focus was active youth participation in community-based programmes as a means to strengthen and protect children’s rights.
Goodwill Ambassador Ricardo Montaner hosts benefit concert for disabled children
MIAMI, USA, 31 December 2007 – UNICEF Regional Goodwill Ambassador Ricardo Montaner and a star-studded cast of Latin American singers performed a benefit concert for a standing room-only audience in the American Airlines Arena in Miami.
UNICEF Snowflake, symbol of hope, illuminated in New York
NEW YORK, USA, 19 November 2007 – Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons, along with his two daughters Ming Lee and Aoki, illuminated the UNICEF Snowflake on Saturday evening at the busy New York intersection of 57th Street and Fifth Avenue, in front of Tiffany & Company’s flagship store here.
UNICEF and US Fund host World of Children 10th-anniversary awards
NEW YORK, USA, 8 November 2007 – Teresa Cheptoo, 16, a Kenyan youth activist and passionate opponent of female genital mutilation/cutting, was among eight individuals whose advocacy work was honoured today at the World of Children Awards.
Jenna Bush celebrates ‘Ana’s Story’ at UNICEF House book launch
NEW YORK, USA, 1 October 2007 – Jenna Bush, who interned with UNICEF in Latin America from September 2006 through May 2007, has drawn from that experience to write ‘Ana’s Story: A Journey of Hope’ – a personal account of a girl who struggles to break free from a vicious cycle of abuse, poverty and illness.
Leaders at Clinton Global Initiative renew commitments to health and education
NEW YORK, USA, 26 September 2007 – A $30 million pledge to help educate children affected by conflict, especially in Iraq and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and a pledge of $1 billion to help improve maternal and child health worldwide were announced at the Clinton Global Initiative today.
Young people use new media to speak out on HIV and AIDS
NEW YORK, USA, 25 July 2007 - As part of a new media video contest, ten young people from around the world documented their thoughts and experiences on HIV and AIDS. Their video blogs, or ‘vlogs’, are available today from UNICEF and MTV Staying Alive and show how HIV affects young people’s daily lives in different ways.
UNICEF hosts first preparatory meeting for 2008 International Year of Sanitation
NEW YORK, USA, 7 May 2007 – Proper sanitation: It’s a seemingly mundane thing that most people in the developed world take for granted. Yet at least 2.6 billion people – some 41 percent of the global population, including 980 million children – do not have access to latrines or other basic sanitation facilities.
Hip-hop documentary brings home clear-cut truths about ‘blood diamonds’
NEW YORK, USA, 2 May 2007 – There’s no end to clichés about diamonds. They’re forever. They’re a girl’s best friend. And recently, the term ‘blood diamonds’ has become commonplace, representing the fact that many armed conflicts in Africa have been funded by the sale of diamonds.
Digital Diary: Pranav explores the issue of drug use among his teenage peers
NEW YORK, USA, 20 April 2007 – Pranav, 14, is concerned about the risk of drug use among his peers and wants to better understand the issue.
International Day for Mine Awareness draws global attention to landmines
NEW YORK, USA, 4 April 2007 – A simulated mine field in the shadow of the UN building, and an exhibition of landmines and explosives of all shapes and sizes. These were just two of the ways in which the United Nations marked the International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action, a day aimed at focusing global attention on the danger of these legacies of war and to mark the progress towards their eradication.
With participation of disabled youth, UN treaty on the rights of the disabled signed
NEW YORK, USA, 2 April 2007 – A new treaty to ensure the human rights of the estimated 650 million people in the world with disabilities opened for signature on March 30 during a special session of the United Nations General Assembly.
UN panel explores the legacy of the slave trade on the 200th anniversary of abolition
NEW YORK, New York, 27 March 2007 – Communities torn apart, millions of lives lost and bonded, and generations of Africans stripped of their native heritage – this is the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade, which accounted for one of the longest and widest-ranging human tragedies in history.
At Global Kids Conference, high school students debate environmental issues
NEW YORK, USA, 26 March 2007 – Six hundred teenagers gathered in New York on Friday to debate environmental issues at the 2007 Global Kids Annual Conference entitled, ‘Do you know where your environment is?’ While experts from UNICEF and other organizations helped to guide discussions, the event was entirely youth-organized and youth-led.
UNICEF Executive Director joins Starbucks and Ethos ‘Walk for Water’
NEW YORK, USA, 22 March 2007 – Marking international World Water Day, UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman today joined more than 250 schoolchildren and hundreds of other New Yorkers in a ‘Walk for Water’ to highlight the global water crisis.
UNICEF taps New York City restaurants to aid world water problems
NEW YORK, USA, 21 March 2007 – It’s an engineering miracle and something that’s completely taken for granted. It’s also free. It’s the tap water in New York City.
Through ‘Radio Rookies’ training programme, youth voices fill the New York air
NEW YORK, USA, 15 March 2007 – A producer speaks into the microphone, conveying a personal story that will soon air on the radio. His is not the voice of a traditional reporter. It is the voice of a teenager.
A former child soldier speaks out at UN session on challenges facing girls
NEW YORK, USA, 2 March 2007 – The striking testimony of a girl who was formerly a child soldier brought an audience of hundreds to its feet for a standing ovation – and moved many to tears – at United Nations headquarters in New York this afternoon.
At UN panel, girls describe challenges keeping their peers out of school
NEW YORK, USA, 1 March 2007 – Youth panellists shared the experiences and challenges of girls growing up in their four different countries today at a discussion hosted by the United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative (UNGEI) in New York.
‘Every child’s home’: China Blue Sky Children bring music to UNICEF
NEW YORK, USA, 27 February 2007 – Resplendent in red and bursting with energy, 21 Chinese children took to the stage at UNICEF headquarters today to celebrate more than half a century of partnership for children.
Youth voices heard at opening of UN Commission on the Status of Women
NEW YORK, USA, 26 February 2007 – The 51st Session of the Commission on the Status of Women opened at United Nations headquarters in New York this morning, launching two weeks of discussions and events in the run-up to International Women’s Day.
UNICEF hosts book launch for Ishmael Beah, former child soldier
NEW YORK, USA, 16 February 2006 – Ishmael Beah, a former child soldier from Sierra Leone, is no stranger to talking before an audience. He has travelled the world speaking out and galvanizing international efforts to rehabilitate children caught in conflict.
NBA hosts announcement of Gates funding for ‘Nothing But Nets’ malaria campaign
NEW YORK, USA, 4 January 2007 – ‘Nothing But Nets’, a campaign to fight the scourge of malaria in Africa, today announced its first-ever challenge grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation – which has pledged to match, dollar for dollar, up to $3 million in individual contributions to the campaign.
UN and UNICEF staff bid farewell to Secretary-General Kofi Annan in New York
NEW YORK, USA, 20 December 2006 – At United Nations headquarters in New York yesterday, outgoing Secretary-General Kofi Annan was feted by staff members from various UN agencies to mark the end of his 10-year term.
First-ever White House Summit on Malaria focuses on life-saving initiatives in Africa
NEW YORK, USA, 15 December 2006 – US President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush yesterday hosted the first-ever White House Summit on Malaria in Washington, DC.
Empire State Building lights up in blue to honour UNICEF 60th anniversary
NEW YORK, USA, 12 December 2006 – Last night, the lights of the world-famous Empire State Building were cyan blue in honour of UNICEF 's 60th anniversary.
New York Stock Exchange rings in UNICEF’s 60th anniversary
NEW YORK, USA, 7 December 2006 – A group of children and UNICEF representatives visited the New York Stock Exchange yesterday, ringing the opening bell to celebrate the agency’s 60th anniversary.
‘Blood Diamond’ film screening highlights the plight of child soldiers
NEW YORK, USA, 1 December 2006 – Forced into armed combat in Sierra Leone during the 1990s, a young boy has been transformed into a soldier. His father struggles to free him from the dangerous life he has been pushed into.
AIDS awareness songs kick-off hip-hop tour of US public schools
NEW YORK, USA, 1 December 2006 – Students at Martin Luther King High School in New York had time out of class today for an AIDS awareness lesson hip-hop style, thanks to rapper MAGZ. The 20-year-old hip-hop artist visited the school on World AIDS Day at the start of his AIDS Awareness Public School Hip-Hop Tour.
Two US youths with HIV join the fight against AIDS in Ethiopia
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, 30 November 2006 – Kimberly Canady, 19, and Elias Perez, 20, both from Brooklyn, look tired but have a sparkle in their eyes as they arrive in Ethiopia after the 16-hour flight donated by Ethiopian Airlines.
Basketball stars and UNICEF team up for new HIV/AIDS television campaign
NEW YORK, USA, 27 November 2006 – In the run-up to the 25th annual celebration of World AIDS Day on 1 December, the US-based National Basketball Association (NBA) and UNICEF today launched a new public service announcement campaign featuring 10 high-profile NBA and Women’s National Basketball Association stars.
Former US President Clinton and Muppet Kami share video message about HIV/AIDS
NEW YORK, USA, 24 November 2006 – In the run-up to World AIDS Day, 1 December, former US president Bill Clinton has joined Kami the Muppet to deliver a message about HIV and AIDS.
UNICEF forms partnership with Baylor Initiative to combat paediatric AIDS
NEW YORK, USA, 17 November 2006 – Children infected with HIV will receive more medical help, thanks to a new partnership between UNICEF and the Baylor International Paediatric AIDS Initiative (BIPAI).
Former US President Clinton chairs tsunami recovery meeting at UNICEF
NEW YORK, USA, 15 November 2006 – Former US President Bill Clinton, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Tsunami Recovery, chaired a session at UNICEF headquarters with partner agencies today to assess progress in the massive rebuilding effort.
Goodwill Ambassador Sarah Jessica Parker helps launch ‘Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF’
NEW YORK, USA, 25 October 2006 – The 56th annual ‘Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF’ campaign was launched today at UNICEF headquarters in New York. Serving as this year’s campaign spokesperson is actress and Goodwill Ambassador Sarah Jessica Parker.
UNICEF Executive Director: Girls’ education vital for developing world
NEW YORK, USA, 25 September 2006 – More than half of all children who do not go to school are girls. Achieving universal primary education is a Millennium Development Goal and one of UNICEF’s primary objectives.
UNICEF Executive Director speaks up for women at Clinton Global Initiative
NEW YORK, USA, 22 September 2006 – Leading experts on child welfare and global development have been gathering in New York to discuss ways of empowering women to aid progress. UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman was one of the key speakers at the special session of the Clinton Global Initiative, an annual meeting organized by the William J. Clinton Foundation to address some of the world’s most serious issues.
World leaders accelerate action to reduce child deaths and meet 2015 target
NEW YORK, USA, 18 September 2006 – World leaders gathered in New York today to accelerate global efforts to save the lives of some 10.5 million children under the age of five who die needlessly every year.
Tennis ace Roger Federer stars in video spot for HIV/AIDS campaign
NEW YORK, USA, 29 August 2006 – His bid for glory at the U.S. Open begins tomorrow, but Roger Federer has already served up an ace in the fight against AIDS with the release of a new public service announcement for UNICEF.
Roll Back Malaria Initiative receives boost in funding
NEW YORK, USA, 27 July 2006 – The global fight against malaria has received a major financial boost, thanks to contributions and new initiatives from the partners of the Roll Back Malaria Initiative.
UNICEF Executive Director accepts Webby award
NEW YORK, USA, 13 June 2006 – UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman attended the 10th Annual Webby Awards ceremony in New York last night to accept the organization’s first-ever Webby for the online multimedia report, The State of the World's Children 2006.
UN urges a stronger response to AIDS, the ‘greatest challenge of our generation’
NEW YORK, USA, 5 June 2006 – Three days of high-level meetings at United Nations headquarters in New York culminated on Friday in a General Assembly declaration that aims to strengthen the world’s response to AIDS. While the wide-ranging statement reaffirms previous goals set in 2001, it also calls for ambitious national targets and promotes the protection of young people – especially girls – to reduce their vulnerability to HIV.
Sesame Workshop honours UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman
NEW YORK, USA, 1 June 2006 – UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman was honoured today by Sesame Workshop, the non-profit organization behind one of the world’s most popular television programmes for children – ‘Sesame Street’.
US National Basketball Association and UNICEF unite for children affected by AIDS
NEW YORK, USA, 31 May 2006 – America’s National Basketball Association (NBA) and UNICEF have joined forces in a drive to the basket, supporting the global UNITE FOR CHILDREN UNITE AGAINST AIDS campaign.
Human ‘red ribbon’ unites the world against AIDS
NEW YORK, USA, 31 May 2006 – Twenty-five years after HIV/AIDS was first diagnosed, the virus shows no sign of letting up. Tens of millions of people have died as a result, leaving 15 million children orphaned.
Young people from around the world gather to help end violence against children
NEW YORK, USA, 26 May 2006 – Harry Lopez, 18, is a sharp dresser from Venezuela with a lot to say about why violence has a terrible effect on children.
UN team leads AIDS Walk New York
NEW YORK, USA, 22 May 2006 – The UN Cares Team, made of many United Nations staff members and their families, led some 47,000 people in this year’s AIDS Walk New York.
Team UNICEF takes to the football pitch in a new television campaign
NEW YORK, USA, 18 May 2006 – UNICEF launched a new set of dynamic public service announcements today: ‘Superfans’.
UNICEF Executive Director speaks out on the ‘silent tragedy’ of child sexual trafficking
NEW YORK, USA, 26 APRIL 2006 – As the keynote speaker at a conference on the problem of child sexual trafficking, UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman reaffirmed UNICEF’s commitment to creating a protective environment for children at risk of exploitation and abuse.
UNICEF’s newest Goodwill Ambassador, tennis star Roger Federer, hits an ace for children
NEW YORK, USA, 3 April 2006 – World tennis champion Roger Federer has been appointed UNICEF’s newest international Goodwill Ambassador. UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman welcomed the 24-year-old player today at UNICEF’s headquarters in New York.
West African music stars turn out for US premiere of ‘Roll Back Malaria’ concert film
NEW YORK, USA, 30 March 2006 – At the United Nations headquarters here last night, stars of the African music world and international public health experts put the spotlight on malaria, the single largest killer of children in Africa.
UNICEF Executive Director’s Women’s Day message
NEW YORK, USA, 8 March 2006 – In a wide-ranging and impassioned keynote speech at the Annual International Women’s Day Luncheon in Washington, D.C., UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman delivered a powerful message about the abuse and exploitation experienced by millions of women and children around the globe.
The UNICEF Snowflake: A beacon of hope for the holidays
NEW YORK, USA, 28 November 2005 - The UNICEF Snowflake is a dazzling, illuminated crystal ornament that graces the intersection of Fifth Avenue and 57th Street in New York City each holiday season as a beacon of hope, peace and compassion for vulnerable children around the world.
Special screening of ‘Innocent Voices’ – an award-winning film about a child caught up in war
NEW YORK, 7 October 2005 – The award-winning film ‘Innocent Voices’, depicting the life of a boy in El Salvador during the civil war, was shown at a special gala screening held at United Nations headquarters, introduced by UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman.
UNICEF honours the life and work of E.J.R. ‘Dick’ Heyward
NEW YORK, 27 September 2005 – Colleagues, friends and relatives gathered Tuesday at UNICEF House to celebrate the life of the legendary E.J.R. ‘Dick’ Heyward, a beloved and influential senior statesman for UNICEF for more than 30 years.
Friends facing separation after the storm
BILOXI, Mississippi, 19 September 2005 – Christina Handford, 13 and Amanda Nguyen, 11, are best friends. They and their families survived Hurricane Katrina, which hit this community hard, but now they have to face two additional challenges: living without electricity, and an uncertain future for their friendship.
Katrina: One family’s survival story
BILOXI, 12 September 2005 – UNICEF correspondent Thomas Nybo spent eight days in the hurricane-ravaged areas of Mississippi reporting on the aftermath of Katrina – focusing on how the disaster has impacted the lives of children.
Katrina: UNICEF kits helping displaced children
MERIDIAN, Mississippi, 13 September 2005 – Having fled their New Orleans home after Hurricane Katrina struck, nine-year-old Tinitra Corely and her family are living at the United Methodist Central Church in Meridian, Mississippi. UNICEF ‘School-in-a-Box’ and recreation kits have now arrived in Meridian, and Tinitra and other children like her are putting them to good use.
Katrina: Children helping children
REDFIELD, Arkansas, 12 September 2005 – The United Pentecostal Church campground in this town is now a temporary home to roughly three hundred people displaced by Hurricane Katrina. The first people arrived from New Orleans a week ago.
Surviving Hurricane Katrina: One child’s story
BILOXI, Mississippi, 9 September 2005 – Ten-year-old Justin Dean survived the rising floodwaters from Hurricane Katrina by taking refuge in a second-story bedroom with his mother, stepfather, four brothers and two grandparents.
Frontline diary: Wednesday 7 September – Searching for loved ones
HOUSTON, 7 September 2005 – A few nights ago I met a woman who was looking for her son. I warmed to Ms. Plaisance immediately, a polite woman with a soft-spoken Southern lilt. She had left New Orleans before the hurricane, but her son had stayed behind. After a week of sleepless nights Ms. Plaisance still knew nothing about his fate. She was exhausted and disoriented.
Children in need of security and help
LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, 8 September 2005 – The mood at the Arkansas State Fairgrounds in Little Rock is anything but festive these days. The Fairgrounds has become a temporary shelter for over one hundred families from New Orleans – all displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
One family's struggle to survive
BILOXI, Mississippi, 8 September 2005 – Seven-year-old Gage and his mother LeeAnn are recovering after Hurricane Katrina swept through their neighbourhood. "It was a terrifying day,” says LeeAnn.
Hurricane Katrina: Impact on children
NEW YORK, 7 September 2005 – More than a week after Hurricane Katrina slammed into the southern coast of the United States, children continue to bear an unequal share of the suffering.
Reports from the disaster zone
BILOXI, Mississippi/LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, 7 September 2005 – Families who escaped Hurricane Katrina with their children are still trying to rebuild their lives more than a week after the devastating storm. Thousands of families are living in temporary shelters with little to do, reports UNICEF Correspondent Thomas Nybo, who met with children and parents in Biloxi, one of the towns hardest hit by the disaster.
Frontline diary: Tuesday 6 September – Evacuees at the Reliant Center
HOUSTON, 6 September 2005 – The sun is setting outside the Reliant Center, one of three shelters in the Reliant Astrodome Complex in Houston, bringing another long day for weary evacuees closer to an end.
Frontline diary: Volunteering to help in Katrina’s aftermath
HOUSTON, 5 September 2005 – Today is Monday. I just got online for the first time and wanted to send a quick update on the scene in Houston. Forgive me for being sparse on the details but I’m pretty tired after a very long and busy day.
UNICEF supports ‘All the Invisible Children’
NEW YORK, 6 September 2005 – The rights of millions of children and adolescents are denied by exploitation and war. Three hundred million children around the world suffer from hunger. Over 100 million have never been to school.
UN to support Hurricane Katrina relief efforts
NEW YORK, 6 September 2005 – A United Nations offer to contribute to the aid effort for survivors of Hurricane Katrina has been accepted by the United States government. Key UN staff have been deployed to help U.S. authorities coordinate the international relief effort.
UN offers support and sympathy for the survivors of Hurricane Katrina
NEW YORK, 2 September 2005 – Thousands in US communities hit hard by Hurricane Katrina are living precariously in overcrowded, makeshift shelters or on the streets. Conditions remain perilous, as water levels are still high in many areas, and food and drinking water are scarce.
UNICEF and CONCACAF join forces to help children
NEW YORK, 22 July 2005 – CONCACAF - the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football - and UNICEF are working together to help children across the region.
UNICEF presents Living Rights film
NEW YORK, 15 June 2005 - Filmmaker Duco Tellegen has made a career in documenting the complexities of children’s lives around the world. His most recent film, Living Rights, explores three stories that illuminate rights from the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Schoolgirls in New Jersey raised $18,000 for children affected by the tsunami
SUMMIT, New Jersey, USA, 20 May 2005 - Welcomed by the sounds of an angelic choir, UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Rima Salah arrived today at Kent Place Middle School in Summit New Jersey, to personally receive a precious gift from the students.
Harlem youth raise funds for children in Chad
NEW YORK, 28 April 2005 – Youth from the Boys & Girls Harbor – a charitable organization based in Harlem, New York City – visited UNICEF headquarters today to deliver in person a donation supporting programmes for children in Chad. UNICEF Goodwill ambassador Harry Belafonte was on hand to greet the four youth ambassadors and receive a cheque on behalf of UNICEF.
UNICEF game wins Web Award
NEW YORK, 17 March 2005 - The US Fund for UNICEF’s ‘World Heroes’ game has won the Amusement prize at this year’s South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Web Awards. The ceremony, which is now in its twelfth year, brings together digital innovators from around the world for four days of speeches and discussions.
Students in New York raise funds for UNICEF’s relief efforts in South Asia
NEW YORK, 25 January 2005 - Elementary school children in New York raised more than $40,000 for the children affected by the tsunami in Asia through a sponsored Read-a-Thon.
Clinton announces cash for UNICEF tsunami relief
NEW YORK, 10 January 2005 - Former US President Bill Clinton has written the first cheque to launch a new fund with UNICEF to bring life saving water and sanitation to survivors of the tsunami. The partnership will strengthen UNICEF’s work in protecting children from water borne diseases in areas still devastated by the catastrophe.
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Whoopi Goldberg on humanitarian disaster in Asia
NEW YORK, 6 January 2005 – UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Whoopi Goldberg took a moment before starting her one-woman Broadway show to speak about the tsunami disaster in Asia and Africa.
Susan Sarandon reacts to tsunami disaster
NEW YORK, 5 January 2005 – Oscar-winning actress Susan Sarandon – a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador since 1999 – spoke with UNICEF this week to share her reaction to the earthquake and tsunami catastrophe in Asia and Africa.
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Danny Glover calls for action to aid tsunami victims
NEW YORK, 5 January 2005 – Renowned stage and screen actor and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Danny Glover sat down with UNICEF this week to share some of his thoughts about the unfolding crisis caused by the recent earthquake and tsunami across Asia and Africa.
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Mia Farrow shares her thoughts about the humanitarian crisis unfolding across Asia and Africa
NEW YORK, 30 December 2004 – Renowned stage and screen actress Mia Farrow - a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador since 2000 – met with a UNICEF camera team this week to share some of her thoughts as a mother and humanitarian activist about the unfolding crisis caused by the recent earthquake and tsunamis across Asia and Africa.
UNICEF Snowflake lands in New York
NEW YORK, 17 November 2004 - On November 18, the lighting of the UNICEF Snowflake — a beautiful ornament gracing the intersection of 57th Street and Fifth Avenue in New York City — will mark the beginning of another festive holiday season. The Snowflake, which has been a mid-Manhattan holiday attraction for 19 years, was dedicated to UNICEF beginning in 2002 as a beacon of hope, peace and compassion for vulnerable children around the world.
