Co-administered by the World Health Organization and the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative is an evidence-based practice care model designed to protect and promote breastfeeding as the safest, healthiest way to nourish babies.
But a Bangladeshi MP, Rabeya Bhuyian, has accused The World Bank, the United Nations Children's Fund, the World Health Organisation and the United Nations Development Programme of failing to protect the water supply.
The plan is that governments or donors will buy the laptops for children to own and use, and the United Nations will help distribute the machines.
It will end the militias' armed presence in the sprawling eastern Baghdad slum, he said, and clear the district of roadside bombs and mines that the United Nations Children's Fund says has rendered many roads inaccessible.
This summit complements the work of the United Nations to dramatically improve the health of women and children around the globe.
About 75 percent of those registered by the United Nations are women and children, and most of them are Sunnis, who make up the majority of Syrians and a bulk of the opposition to al-Assad's regime.
Members of the United Nations, the Russian children did nothing to deserve such awful suffering and fright and death.
And that is why helping farmers feed their own people -- or nations educate their children and care for the sick -- is not mere charity.
Ms. Mebarak Ripoll became a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund in 2003, where she promotes the expansion and improvement of comprehensive early childhood care and education across the world.
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Since leaving power two years ago he campaigned forcefully on behalf of children, as has Graca Machel, who has been a highly effective children's champion for many years and who wrote a highly influential report for the United Nations on the impacts of conflict upon children's lives.
Drug smuggling, money laundering, organized crime groups, and missing and abducted children are all areas in which criminals attempt to cross the border and exploit differences in the two nations' laws.
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Lindita, her husband and two children are among more than 100, 000 refugees the United Nations estimates have fled Kosovo since NATO launched airstrikes against Yugoslavia on March 24.
Both the World Health Organization and United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) expressed concern about reports of diarrheal diseases among children in southern Iraq being on the rise due to their drinking contaminated water.
He said that the initiative, supported by a range of United Nations bodies and non-governmental organisations including Save the Children, "requires a lot of international agreement and unity".
The fighting has also raised concern from another United Nations official: Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict Radhika Coomaraswamy.
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Ecco, which employs 20, 000 from more than 50 nations, peddles its comfortable shoes to men, women and children in 94 countries, including the United States.
For example, in Liberia, a range of partners acted in concert to re-integrate children, including UNICEF, World Food Program, World Health Organization (WHO), ActionAid, and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).
If it is to be truly socially conscious, which it must be, then such dollars should be coordinated to help women, to help their children, to ensure that the governance within those nations can be asset-backed transparently, humanely, and with the best intentions.
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UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund, estimates that schools, once open between 180 and 200 days a year the shortest period in South Asia are now functioning only 100 days a year.
The United Nations children's agency, Unicef, has repeatedly issued statements accusing Col Karuna and his faction of forcibly recruiting child soldiers.
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