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  • Indian demonstrators hold placards during a silent protest 'Not In My Name' in support of rape victims following high profile cases in Jammu and Kashmir and Uttar Pradesh states in New Delhi on 15 April, 2018. Picture: AFP

    Who & what is 'civil society'?

    It is hard to quantify just how big the sector is globally. However, one study says that NGOs across 40 countries represent $2.2 trillion in operating expenditures.

    1483 days ago
  • Picture: Supplied

    Calls for Nigeria to establish how many missing Chibok girls still alive

    Islamist fighters from Nigeria’s Boko Haram group have abducted more than 1,000 children in the northeast since 2013, Unicef said.

    1490 days ago
  • Picture: Twitter/@UNICEFmedia

    Six aid workers killed in Central African Republic attack

    The attack took place on 25 February as the group was travelling to the northeastern town of Markounda, located in a remote region near the Chadian border.

    1538 days ago
  • Former Save the Children chief executive Justin Forsyth. Picture: Facebook.

    Former Save the Children chief executive has resigned from Unicef

    Earlier this week it was revealed Justin Forsyth faced three complaints of inappropriate behaviour towards female staff at Save the Children.

    1544 days ago
  • mother andbaby generic. Picture: iStock

    Africa the ‘most dangerous’ place to be born - report

    The United Nations Children’s Fund says global infant deaths remain alarmingly high, especially in the lower-income countries.

    1547 days ago
  • FILE: In a photo taken on 19 November 2017, children stand on a roadside on the outskirts of the industrial city of Chongjin on North Korea's northeast coast. Picture: AFP.

    Unicef: 60,000 North Korean children may starve as sanctions slow aid

    World powers have imposed growing sanctions on North Korea for its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes.

    1567 days ago
  • Children displaced from Mosul since the start of the offensive to retake Iraq’s second city from Islamic State militants are seen at the Hassan Shan camp in northern Iraq. Picture: United Nations Photo.

    Unicef: 1.3 million children displaced by Iraq's war with Islamic State

    Persistent bombing and shooting attacks make it difficult to rebuild the lives of displaced people, according to Unicef, the UN children’s agency.

    1578 days ago
  • One of the four mobile cranes arrives in the important Houthi-controlled Hodeidah port. Picture: @WFP_MENA/Twitter.

    UN hopes imports will help stave off famine in Yemen

    Yemen is the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, where 8.3 million people are entirely dependent on external food aid.

    1581 days ago
  • UNICEF’s chartered flight bringing in over 15 tonnes of the most needed lifesaving Penta, BCG and PCV vaccines to protect about 600k children from diphtheria, tetanus and others in Yemen. Picture: @UNICEF_Yemen /Twitter.

    Medical supplies, UN aid workers reach Yemen after blockade eased

    International aid groups have welcomed the decision to let aid in, but said aid flights are not enough to avert a humanitarian crisis.

    1633 days ago
  • FILE: Priyanka Chopra. Picture: Twitter/@priyankachopra.

    Priyanka Chopra to be honoured for Unicef role

    The 'Quantico' actress has become known for championing the battle for equality for women and now her humanitarian work is being recognised by 'Variety'.

    1692 days ago
  • FILE: The scene of a bombing after at least 20 people were killed when a young female suicide bomber detonated her explosives at a bus station in Maiduguri, northeast Nigeria, on June 22, 2015. Picture: AFP

    Unicef: Boko Haram child bombings in Nigeria quadrupled in 2017

    Eighty-three children had been used as bombers since 1 January, 2017, Unicef said.

    1728 days ago
  • FILE: Beyonce has teamed up with Unicef to bring bring safe, clean water to children in Burundi. Picture: AFP.

    Beyonce joins forces with Unicef for children's water project in Burundi

    One in 12 children in Burundi dies before age 5, according to Unicef.

    1781 days ago
  • A severe drought is threatening famine in Somalia, where the UN estimates 5.5 million people at risk. Young girls line up at a feeding centre in Mogadishu. Picture: United Nations Photo

    Unicef: Acute malnutrition surges in Somalia children

    Some 1.4 million children in drought-hit Somalia are projected to suffer acute malnutrition this year, the UN Children’s Fund said.

    1841 days ago
  • FILE: Charlotte Nikoi was last seen on 21 March. Picture: Facebook.com.

    Reward offered for information on missing Table Mountain hiker

    Charlotte Nikoi went missing on Human Rights Day, while hiking up Platteklip Gorge with her family.

    1867 days ago
  • A two-month-old girl with a severe malnutrition lays on a bed next to her mother at the Aweil State Hospital, in Aweil, Northern Bahr El-Gazhal, South Sudan. Picture: AFP

    1.4 million African children at imminent risk of starvation

    The World Food Programme says 20 million lives are at risk in the next six months.

    1909 days ago
  • FILE: Smoke billows following an air-strike by Saudi-led coalition on 11 May 2015 in the Yemen capital of Sanaa. Picture: AFP.

    UN seeks $2.1 billion to avert famine in Yemen

    Unicef says an estimated 63,000 Yemeni children died last year of preventable causes often linked to malnutrition.

    1923 days ago
  • Picture: Home of Hope

    Unicef: Black child five times more likely to die before age 5

    Pneumonia, prematurity and HIV/Aids are some are some of the causes that account for over half of children's deaths.

    1979 days ago
  • A file picture showing a 13-year-old Prince Mpofu packing last years harvest from the irrigated gardens for storage in the village of Nsezi in Matabeleland, southwestern Zimbabwe. Picture: AFP.

    UN warns: El Niño could cause severe malnutrition

    School dropouts, chronic malnutrition, stunting and diarrhea are some of the effects El Niño will apparently have on children.

    1987 days ago
  • FILE: Some of the 21 freed Chibok girls are received at the Nigerian Vice President's office in Abuja on October 13, 2016. Picture: AFP

    Some 14 million in northeast Nigeria may need humanitarian aid in 2017 – UN

    The Islamist militant group has killed 15,000 people and displaced more than 2 million from their homes.

    2008 days ago
  • FILE: A truck carrying Muslims who fled Bangui is escorted by the French Sangaris Operation troops (not seen) in Grimari in the Central African Republic. Picture: AFP.

    Child marriage threatens future of young CAR refugees in Cameroon

    Many of the refugees are from herding or farming communities and do not value education for their children.

    2016 days ago
  • Picture: freeimages.com

    Unicef: One in seven children suffer high air pollution

    Worldwide, the WHO estimates that outdoor air pollution killed 3.7 million people in 2012, including 127,000 children aged under five.

    2024 days ago
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