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Posts Categorized: UNICEF

March 12, 2012

Kony 2012 and children in armed conflict

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by Jessica Hawkinson Millions of viewers have tuned in to the KONY2012 video and campaign, recently released by the organization Invisible Children. The campaign encourages public support for the arrest of Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), who is wanted for trial by the International Criminal Court. Kony is charged for,… Read more »
January 11, 2012

Human trafficking awareness day

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Today, January 11 is Human Trafficking Awareness day.  On this day, we recognize the ways in which slavery continues to exist in our world today.  Whether it is in the fields for our tomatoes or in the bedroom of hotel room, girls and boys, women and men are trafficked every day. This modern slavery is… Read more »
December 10, 2011

Tap Project brings water to world’s children

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Would you pay for tap water in a restaurant? Would you pay for tap water if it made a difference to children in Togo, Vietnam, Mauritania, and Cameroon? By participating in the UNICEF Tap Project, you support UNICEF’s efforts to bring clean and accessible water to millions of children around the world. What is the… Read more »
October 28, 2011

Trick or Treat for UNICEF this weekend

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What are you doing this weekend? Be sure to spend part of your time taking part in some way in Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF. This program began in Philadelphia in 1950, the idea of Presbyterians Clyde and Mary Emma Allison who wondered “Why can’t kids collect food for starving children?” In the sixty years since those… Read more »
October 14, 2011

Geneva Presbytery says “No” to child soldiers

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From the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, they journeyed to New York City. Thirty-six in number, of many different ages, the group from the Presbytery of Geneva included a visit to the Presbyterian Ministry at the United Nations as part of their trip. On Saturday, October 8, we met outside the United Nations…. Read more »
September 1, 2011

Almost Heaven visits the Big Apple

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The James A. Farley Post Office Building here in New York bears the insciption, “neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.” For an intrepid group from the Presbytery of West Virginia, not even the aftermath of Hurricane Irene could keep them… Read more »
August 19, 2011

People helping people- a celebration of World Humanitarian Day

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  Photo: Joseph Donnelly, Caritas Internationalis Today, I had the opportunity to join with UN Secretary General Ban Ki- moon, Undersecretary General Valerie Amos, Executive Director of UNICEF Anthony Lake as well as other senior United Nations officials in celebrating World Humanitarian Day at UN Headquarters in New York City. This is the third year… Read more »
August 19, 2011

Statement on World Humanitarian Day

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Statement by Ambassador Susan E. Rice, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, on World Humanitarian Day, August 19, 2011 On World Humanitarian Day, we recognize the heroes who brave danger to deliver aid where it is most desperately needed. Humanitarians save lives, mitigate the cycle of chronic desperation that makes the world less safe, and… Read more »
July 21, 2011

Crisis in the Horn of Africa

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Some 10 million people in the Horn of Africa face a severe food crisis and could starve following a prolonged drought. “In some areas of Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, and Uganda, drought conditions are the worst in 60 years, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said in an update.” On July 20,… Read more »

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