Topic: Unicef

AP News | 146 days ago
Challenges, disputes lie ahead as advocates push for more adoptions from Haiti

Logistical challenges and potentially bitter disputes lie ahead as passionate advocates of adoption press for changes that might enable thousands of Haitian children affected by the earthquake to be placed in U.S. homes. The obstacles are daunting, starting with a need to register Haiti's dislocated children ...

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AFP South Asian Edition | 186 days ago

Rajan Kumar Nepali did not know he was giving up his two young children when he put his thumbprint on a document handing custody to an orphanage in the Nepalese capital Kathmandu. The owners of the children's home had promised to take care of his son and daughter while the 28-year-old labourer, who cannot read or write, tried to ...

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AFP South Asian Edition | 186 days ago

Rajan Kumar Nepali did not know he was giving up his two young children when he put his thumbprint on a document handing custody to an orphanage in the Nepalese capital Kathmandu. The owners of the children's home had promised to take care of his son and daughter while the 28-year-old labourer, who cannot read or write, tried to ...

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AP News | 226 days ago
Advocacy groups: Americans rushing to adopt children left orphans from Haiti quake

Tammy Gage cries every time she turns on the TV and sees the devastation in Haiti. And though she already has three daughters, she didn't hesitate when her husband suggested that they adopt from Haiti. "That's all he needed to say," she said. Gage and her ...

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AFP South Asian Edition | 610 days ago

Nepal has begun accepting applications from foreigners who want to adopt Nepalese children, 18 months after the practice was stopped because of widespread malpractice, officials said Friday. Adoptions were suspended after reports that foreigners paid up to 20,000 dollars to adopt children, most of whom were not genuine orphans and some of whom were taken overseas without their parent ...

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How charity can use your unused foreign currency

Guardian, UK | 23 hours ago

Charities and airlines run schemes for your unwanted holiday money. Photograph: Toby Melville/PA . Have you returned from holiday with unwanted...

UNICEF and World Food Programme chiefs visit Pakistan's flood-stricken Punjab province

UNICEF | yesterday

In the village of Gujrat, the two agency heads visited a girls' high school that had been transformed into an emergency relief centre for hundreds...

Life skills courses brighten the future for Syrian Arab Republic's refugees

UNICEF | yesterday

Then a pounding hip-hop beat begins and Ibrahim swells with confidence. He grabs a microphone and launches into a rehearsal of 'The Graduation...

Cooper's shame over footie blunder

Daily Express, UK | yesterday

DOMINIC COOPER was left red-faced when he tried to fulfil his dream of becoming a star footballer - he fluffed his chance in front of thousands of...

The CIA to UNICEF: Big Aid Has a Very Dirty Secret

CounterPunch.org: Political News | yesterday

Former National Security Advisor in the Clinton White House and failed nominee to head the CIA, Anthony "Tony" Lake is now Executive Director of...

WHO, UNICEF call for closing gap in child medicines

Windsor Star, Canada | yesterday

U.N. health bodies called on Friday for more research and clinical trials to close gaps in the market for children's medicines that cost millions ...

Encephalitis kills 215 in India, toll expected to soar

AFP Global Edition | 7 days ago

At least 215 people, mostly children, have died in an outbreak of Japanese encephalitis in an impoverished region of northern Indian and the death toll is likely to soar, officials said Saturday.Eastern parts of India's most populous state Uttar Pradesh a

Flood aid flowing slowly to desperate Pakistan

AFP Global Edition | 17 days ago

Flood-ravaged Pakistan said it has received international aid of 300 million dollars but the flow of money remained slow, and survivors lashed out at Islamabad for failing to move faster to help.Torrential monsoon rain triggered catastrophic floods which

Pakistan wins more flood aid

AFP South Asian Edition | 17 days ago

Pakistan won more aid pledges Tuesday as UN officials warned money needs to come through faster to help 20 million people hit by disastrous floods and stave off a "second wave of death" from disease.Torrential monsoon rain triggered catastrophic floods wh

Celebrities Inspiring Ethical Travel

The Planet D: Around the World | 40 days ago

Welcome to media week at ThePlanetD. . We have been working on getting back in shape this summer. We may do treks and adventures, but we never...

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