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  Unicef   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
UNICEF’s aim is to get more girls into school, ensure that they stay in school and that they are equipped with the basic tools they need to succeed in later life.
UNICEF works in a variety of ways to provide protection and support, from child's rights advocacy to child soldier demobilisation programmes, working with individuals, civic groups, governments, and the private sector to bring about positive change.
The cause for this accusations had been, that UNICEF had spread information about possible measures to girls who were in danger of being raped by soldiers during civil wars as well as education on how to avoid HIV-infection and how to reduce exorbitant birth rates.
www.seattleluxury.com /encyclopedia/entry/UNICEF   (1016 words)

  
 UNICEF - Press centre - Chinese piano virtuoso named Goodwill Ambassador
UNICEF Executive Director Carol Bellamy and Goodwill Ambassador Lang Lang.
He joins a long list of UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors who travel the world on behalf of children, including Harry Belafonte, Vanessa Redgrave, Jessica Lange, Mia Farrow and the late legendary Goodwill Ambassadors Peter Ustinov, Audrey Hepburn and Danny Kaye.
UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, foundations and governments.
www.unicef.org /media/media_21029.html   (549 words)

  
 Goodwill Celebrities Discuss Effective Ways of Delivering UN's Message - 2002-06-21   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
UNICEF, the U.N. International Children's Emergency Fund, began the recruitment of goodwill ambassadors in 1953 with the appointment of actor Danny Kaye.
Not all goodwill ambassadors are equally busy or equally committed, but a level of idealism was apparent in those who attended their first reunion since the United Nations drew up a list of objectives for the new millennium almost two years ago.
Much of what goodwill ambassadors witness in their travels, many for the first time in their lives, is what has been wrong with the world for a long time.
www.voanews.com /english/archive/2002-06/a-2002-06-21-21-Goodwill.cfm   (661 words)

  
 Suchmaschine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
UNICEF is currently focused on 5 primary priorities: Child Survival and Development, Basic Education and Gender Equality (including girls' education]), Child protection from violence, exploitation and abuse, HIV/AIDS, and children, and Policy advocacy and partnerships for children-s rights.
UNICEF uses the term -child protection- to refer to preventing and responding to violence, exploitation and abuse against children - including commercial sexual exploitation, trafficking, child labour and harmful traditional practices, such as female genital mutilation/cutting and child marriage.
UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre in Florence, Italy, was established in 1988 to strengthen the research capability of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and to support its advocacy for children worldwide.
www.dmoz.ch /lexikon.cgi?sprache=en&q=United_Nations_Children's_Fund   (2153 words)

  
 Tennis, Interviews, ASAPSports FastScripts, Quotes, Transcript   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Goodwill Ambassadors are chosen not only because of their name recognition, but also because of the respect in which they are held as genuine humanitarians.
Our interest in appointing him as a Goodwill Ambassador was inspired by his personal story, and the commitment he has demonstrated to using his fame to benefit children.
The partnership between the ATP and UNICEF, assisting children everywhere, or Ace like tennis, may be in its infancy, but has already shown how much can be done when we team up and put our heart and effort behind the cause.
www.asapsports.com /tennis/2006teles/040306RF.html   (2579 words)

  
 UNICEF - Wikipedia Mirror
The United Nations Children's Fund or UNICEF (Arabic: -{منظمة الأمم المتحدة للطفولة}-; French: -{Fonds des Nations Unies pour l'enfance}-; Spanish: -{Fondo de Naciones Unidas para la Infancia}-) was established by the United Nations General Assembly on December 11, 1946.
UNICEF is currently focused on 5 primary priorities: Young Child Survival and Developmant,Primary Education and Gender Equality, Child protection, HIV/AIDS, and Early childhood.
The Catholic Church has also been critical of UNICEF, with the Vatican even withdrawing donations, because of reports by the American Life League that parts of the funding pay for sterilisations, abortions, and contraceptives [5].
www.wiki-mirror.be /index.php/UNICEF   (974 words)

  
 United Nations Children's Fund - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The United Nations Children's Fund or UNICEF was established by the United Nations General Assembly on December 11, 1946.
Following the reaching of term limits by Executive Director of UNICEF Carol Bellamy, former US Secretary of Agriculture Ann Veneman took control of the organisation in May 2005 with an agenda to increase the organisation's focus on the Millennium Development Goals.
UNICEF is currently focused on 5 primary priorities: Girls' education, Immunisation plus, Child protection, HIV/AIDS, and Early childhood.
www.tvwiki.tv /wiki/UNICEF   (924 words)

  
 unicef
UNICEF is currently focused on 5 primary priorities: Girls' education, Immunisation plus, Child protection, HIV/AIDS, and Early childhood.
UNICEF says rates of malnutrition and HIV/AIDS are rising at an alarming level among children in the country.
About 128,000 US Dollars financed by Unicef are being used by the government of the southern Huila Province, through the provincial board of waters, in the construction of 40 water captation systems, in several municipalities of this province.
www.econobell.com /Ty-to-Va/unicef.php   (1137 words)

  
 Go Roger! - Press Interviews: 2006 UNICEF
Goodwill Ambassadors are chosen not only because of their name recognition, but also because of the respect in which they are held as genuine humanitarians.
Our interest in appointing him as a Goodwill Ambassador was inspired by his personal story, and the commitment he has demonstrated to using his fame to benefit children.
The partnership between the ATP and UNICEF, assisting children everywhere, or Ace like tennis, may be in its infancy, but has already shown how much can be done when we team up and put our heart and effort behind the cause.
www.goroger.net /interview/2006/unicef060403.html   (2614 words)

  
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UNICEF is currently focused on 5 primary priorities: Child Survival and Development, Basic Education and Gender Equality (including Girls Education), Child protection from violence, exploitation and abuse, HIV/AIDS, and children, and Policy advocacy and partnerships for children-s rights.
UNICEF works to improve the status of their priorities through 14 methods {-} ranging from direct and legal interventions to education and beyond to research and census data collection.
UNICEF uses the term -child protection- to refer to preventing and responding to violence, exploitation and abuse against children - including commercial sexual exploitation, trafficking, child labour and harmful traditional practices, such as female genital mutilation/cutting and child marriage.
www.coder-world.de /cgi-bin/metaseek/lexikon.cgi?sprache=en&q=UNICEF   (1701 words)

  
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In 2004, he was appointed a United States Fund for UNICEF National Ambassador, with a mission to help ensure that children everywhere are afforded a primary education.
In March 2005, UNICEF sent Aiken to the tsunami-stricken Banda Aceh area to raise awareness of the need to restore education quickly to the children who survived this disaster, in order to provide stability in a time of great loss.
In May 2005, UNICEF sent Aiken on another mission, to northern Uganda, to witness the plight of children called "night commuters", who flee the villages each night to sleep in streets and shelters in hopes of avoiding being kidnapped by the Lord's Resistance Army.
www.feedbus.com /wikis/wikipedia.php?title=Clay_Aiken   (4895 words)

  
 UNICEF   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Unicef is currently focused on 5 primary priorities: Girls education, Immunization plus, Child protection, HIV/AIDS, and Early childhood.
UNICEF works in a variety of ways to provide protection and support, from child's rights advocacy to child soldier demobilization programs, working with individuals, civic groups, governments, and the private sector to bring about positive change.
Unlike NGOs, UNICEF is an inter-governmental organization and thus is accountable to governments.
www.partsquote.com /search.php?title=UNICEF   (811 words)

  
 UNICEF Australia
At 26, the internationally renowned singer and songwriter is the youngest of UNICEF’s Goodwill Ambassadors.
“UNICEF has done tremendous work in my home nation of Colombia and I have seen first-hand the difference UNICEF makes,” said Shakira, the first Colombian to be appointed a global Goodwill Ambassador.
Shakira, like all our Goodwill Ambassadors, was chosen based on her compassion, her involvement in global issues, her deep commitment to helping children, and her appeal to young people around the world.
www.unicef.org.au /mediaCentre-Detail.asp?ReleaseID=488   (405 words)

  
 UNITE FOR CHILDREN  UNITE AGAINST AIDS - Know More - Hip-hop star Zola named UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador at ...
He joins a list of notables from the world stage who have been chosen as UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors not only because they’ve made their names in sports, music or the performing arts, but also largely for the respect they command as genuine humanitarians.
UNICEF correspondent Sarah Crowe reports on how rap star and regional Goodwill Ambassador Zola is making a difference in Africa.
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Angélique Kidjo sings a tribute to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
www.uniteforchildren.org /knowmore/knowmore_36761.htm   (578 words)

  
 UNICEF UK – Tribute to UNICEF Ambassador Audrey Hepburn
Soon after becoming a UNICEF ambassador, Hepburn went on a mission to Ethiopia, where years of drought and civil strife had caused terrible famine.
After visiting UNICEF emergency operations, she talked about the projects to the media in the United States, Canada and Europe over several weeks, giving as many as 15 interviews a day.
In the years that followed, Hepburn made a series of UNICEF field trips, visiting a polio vaccine project in Turkey, training programmes for women in Venezuela, projects for children living and working on the street in Ecuador, projects to provide drinking water in Guatemala and Honduras and radio literacy projects in El Salvador.
www.unicef.org.uk /celebrity/audrey_hepburn.asp   (527 words)

  
 Unicef - Singer and songwriter Shakira appointed Unicef Goodwill Ambassador
Unicef - Singer and songwriter Shakira appointed Unicef Goodwill Ambassador
Critical to her appeal is the fact that Shakira, at 26 the youngest UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, has captured an audience of millions of young people in countries world-wide.
She is part of a vanguard of young faces that UNICEF is attracting as it prepares to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Goodwill Ambassadors – a concept that UNICEF originated and which helped make it a household name.
www.unicef.nl /unicef/show/id=53926/contentid=408   (541 words)

  
 David Beckham launches UNICEF global TV campaign for tsunami emergency appeal
UNICEF is seeking £76.5 million to support urgent humanitarian aid for the next six-months for the 1.5 million children who have been affected by the disaster, and are in critical need of basic care and support.
One of UNICEF's priorities for children affected by the Tsunami is to help them cope with their trauma by getting them back to school as soon as possible returning a sense of normality to their lives.
UNICEF Executive Director Carol Bellamy said: "We are absolutely delighted that David Beckham has come on board as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.
www.medicalnewstoday.com /medicalnews.php?newsid=18836&nfid=rssfeeds   (827 words)

  
 UNICEF UK – Tributes to UNICEF Ambassadors
He was the perfect UNICEF Ambassador with a natural ease around children of all nations.
Although he achieved international acclaim as an actor, producer, playwright, novelist and raconteur, his role as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador was equally distinguished.
Several of his missions to visit UNICEF projects, such as his 1986 visit to child health and education projects in China, were filmed for television.
www.unicef.org.uk /celebrity/peter_ustinov.asp   (579 words)

  
 The Global Leader in News Distribution
UNICEF announced today that Amitabh Bachchan has agreed to become UNICEF’s newest Goodwill Ambassador, promoting the rights of children in India and around the world.
UNICEF is celebrating a 50-year history of Goodwill Ambassadors this December.
Bachchan, UNICEF is also grateful for the support of a growing number of celebrities to support the cause of polio eradication.
www.businesswireindia.com /pressrelease.asp?b2mid=4120   (471 words)

  
 UNICEF - South Africa - Hip-hop star Zola named UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador at African Development Forum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
He joins a list of notables from the world stage who have been chosen as UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors not only because they’ve made their names in sports, music or the performing arts, but also largely for the respect they command as genuine humanitarians.
UNICEF correspondent Sarah Crowe reports on how rap star and regional Goodwill Ambassador Zola is making a difference in Africa.
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Angélique Kidjo sings a tribute to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
www.unicef-icdc.it /infobycountry/southafrica_36606.html   (625 words)

  
 Roger Moore Official Site
UNICEF's distinguished family of Goodwill Ambassadors and celebrity supporters lend their time and talents to raise UNICEF's profile and influence global policy on behalf of children and women.
Roger was introduced to UNICEF in 1991 by the late Audrey Hepburn, after she asked him to take part in an event and he heard her speak so passionately about UNICEF's work.
In June 1994, Des'ree attended the UNICEF Danny Kaye Awards, and was inspired to write a new song, "Little Child." The song was released in August and the proceeds came to UNICEF.
www.roger-moore.com /sos2.htm   (1237 words)

  
 UNICEF to Celebrate 50 Years of Support from the Entertainment Community :: PNNOnline ::
UNICEF will pay tribute to George Harrison, whose 1971 Concert for Bangladesh marked the first time musicians collaborated for a common humanitarian cause; and honor its leading Goodwill Ambassadors Sir Peter Ustinov, Sir Roger Moore, Harry Belafonte, Vanessa Redgrave and Nana Mouskouri, who have been stalwart champions for children for more than a decade each.
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors Sir Peter Ustinov, Sir Roger Moore, Harry Belafonte, Vanessa Redgrave and Nana Mouskouri will be honored for their life-long dedication to improving the lives of children throughout the world.
These Ambassadors have traveled far from the comforts of their homes, using the power of their popularity to support UNICEF's work to ensure child survival, expand immunization programs, enroll children in school, assist children affected by HIV/AIDS, and to fight for child rights.
www.pnnonline.org /article.php?sid=4852&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0   (1019 words)

  
 The Hindu : National : Sharmila becomes Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF
Celebrating her birthday here with a group of "very special children," she signed on the dotted line to become goodwill ambassador for UNICEF India with special focus on HIV/AIDS and its impact on children.
UNICEF has more than 100 celebrities in film, music, sports and literature around the world working as its ambassadors.
I have worked with UNICEF in their polio programme and it was heart wrenching to see how parents resisted giving their children polio drops not because they want their children to die but because of ignorance and fear.
www.hindu.com /2005/12/09/stories/2005120918491200.htm   (358 words)

  
 UNICEF Australia
UNICEF’s celebrities have a wide range of talents and achievements, but they all share a commitment to improving the lives of children worldwide.
UNICEF was the first of many ‘causes’ to enlist the help of celebrities.
Danny Kaye pioneered the role of ambassador in 1954; it was taken on by Audrey Hepburn and others, building up into the current distinguished roster of international and national ambassadors.
www.unicef.org.au /WhoWeAre-Subs.asp?WhoWeAreID=11   (492 words)

  
 WHO Goodwill Ambassador - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
WHO Goodwill Ambassadors are celebrity advocates of the World Health Organization (WHO) and utilize their talent and fame to advocate for health and well-being.
Goodwill Ambassador to the Expanded Programme on Immunization.
Goodwill Ambassador for Maternal and Child Health in the European Region.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/WHO_Goodwill_Ambassador   (110 words)

  
 Shakira is UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador - Shakira Rules Forum
UNICEF said Shakira was “part of a vanguard of young faces” that the agency plans to use as ambassadors as the 50th anniversary of Kaye’s appointment approaches.
At 2:30pm they told Shakira would be UNICEF Ambassador and you posted at 2:42pm a bit longer story about it.
Grammy Award-winning singer Shakira waves after she was given the title goodwill ambassador for UNICEF, in Madrid, Spain, Friday Oct. 24, 2003.
www.shakirarules.com /board/?act=ST&f=1&t=1568&st=&   (1918 words)

  
 Boston.com / A&E / Music / Shakira named UNICEF goodwill ambassador
The 26-year-old singer is the youngest person and the first Colombian to serve as UNICEF ambassador.
Since 1954, when the late comedian Danny Kaye became the first goodwill ambassador for the United Nations Children's Fund, leading personalities in the arts, sports, literature and public life have traveled the world advertising the world body's work.
Shakira, who lives in Miami and has won a Latin Grammy and numerous MTV awards, joins a list of past and present UNICEF ambassadors that includes the late Audrey Hepburn, Harry Belafonte, Roger Moore, Vanessa Redgrave, Jessica Lange and Mia Farrow.
www.boston.com /ae/music/articles/2003/10/24/shakira_named_unicef_goodwill_ambassador   (251 words)

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