3 Ways to Use Monero For Good
Users of Monero (XMR) understand that the cryptocurrency can be used just like cash. It can even be stored in a private Monero GUI wallet until it’s needed. And just like you might donate cash anonymously More...
UNICEF obtains pentavalent vaccine at lowest-ever price
Breakthrough prices have been achieved with six vaccine suppliers who offered to price pentavalent vaccine at an 84 cents a dose average – half the price that the UN children’s agency currently pays. In the More...
Boko Haram kidnapping victims rejected by society after escape or rescue
Girls and women kidnapped by Nigeria’s insurgent group, Jamāʻat Ahl as-Sunnah lid-daʻwa wal-Jihād (JAS), commonly known as Boko Haram, face mistrust and persecution upon their return to society – according More...
UN warns of doubling of child brides in Africa by 2050
If current levels persist, the total number of child brides in Africa will rise from 125 million to 310 million by 2050, according to a UNICEF report released at the African Union Girls Summit in Lusaka, Zambia, More...
Syria: Major polio vaccination campaign under way
With the confirmation testing pending on some 22 “suspected” cases of polio in war-torn Syria, UNICEF has joined the World Health Organisation and other partners in mounting a large-scale immunization More...
UNICEF: Deaths in children under five cut in half, 45% linked to undernutrition
The number of deaths in children under-five years of age has dropped nearly in half, according to new data released by multiple United Nations agencies Friday. In 2012, approximately 6.6 million children worldwide More...
Egypt, Muslim Brotherhood highlighted in UNICEF report on female genital mutilation
UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund, has issued a new report on FGM/C, female genital mutilation/cutting, that raises troubling questions about the practice and the American response to it, particularly More...
Lucy Liu visits Syrian refugee children in Lebanon settlement: ‘This is a children’s crisis and it’s only getting worse’
“Elementary” star and UNICEF ambassador, Lucy Liu, accompanied by UNICEF staff, visited makeshift settlements in the Bekaa region of Lebanon to see first-hand the dire situation for Syrian children and More...
Lenny Kravitz teams up with UNICEF to do PSA on vaccine-preventable diseases
Multiple Grammy Award winning singer, songwriter and guitarist, Lenny Kravitz, has partnered with UNICEF to create a new series of Public Service Announcements (PSA) to to urge people to join UNICEF to bring about More...
Killings of polio workers condemned by international agencies, Pakistan polio immunization program continues
Photo/Fast Track via wikimedia commons Pakistan is one of three remaining polio endemic countries on the planet, so it was disastrous blow when suspected militants attacked polio vaccination workers, killing More...
