Tag: Unicef

Pneumonia and diarrhea are among the top causes of childhood deaths around the world, particularly among the poor, said a report out Friday by...

Radio Pakistan and the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, have joined hands for launching a series of programmes on creating awareness about children’s education...

The World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations International Children Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has said that currently 2.5 billion people still lack improved sanitation...

A new global United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) report highlights the challenges that many children face while living in the cities and towns around...

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Friday launched an appeal for $1.28 billion (947 million euros) this year, with a third of the...

Not only terror, polio has also become a potential and constant threat to counties neighbouring Pakistan. Rise in the number of cases of the...

Stressing the need for registering all births in Pakistan, the UNICEF said on Saturday that around three million children born in the country each...

Majority of children in Pakistan are deprived of their fundamental right of birth registration as only 27 percent of births were registered in last...

A new flash appeal for the flood affected people in southern Pakistan is being prepared and is expected to be announced within a week,...

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned on Monday that Pakistan was facing a serious risk of being the last polio reservoir in the...

UNICEF, the U.N. children's agency, has named U.S. tennis champion Serena Williams as its latest international goodwill ambassador. Williams, who has been described as...

Up to 2.5 million children are affected by severe monsoon floods in southern Pakistan and with many still recovering from the worst floods in...

With 63 new polio cases already reported in Pakistan in 2011, this country could potentially be the last polio reservoir worldwide, standing in the...

Seventh-seeded Italian Roberta Vinci and former top-10 Aussie Jelena Dokic will be the combatants in Saturday’s women’s final at the $220,000 Unicef Open. World’s No...

The UNICEF and the Punjab government signed a two-year work plan amounting to US$38 million to scale-up action for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged...

Lahore - The Punjab Health Department and UNICEF signed a two-year work plan 2011-12 worth $17.72 million on Saturday. The work plan is based on the agreement between the federal government and UNICEF while its main focus is to address the key issues related to timely achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) particularly those related to child and maternal health and nutrition.
Punjab Health Secretary Fawad Hassan Fawad said that the main objectives of the work plan

ISLAMABAD: Around 8 million children will remain unvaccinated and the education facilities for over 2.5 millions will not be restored if the United Nations is not provided funds by the international community immediately, Kristen Elsby, spokesperson of UNICEF, warned on Wednesday.
"We will be forced to wrap up vaccination facilities and close down various schools and
life saving centers in Pakistan if funds are not provided immediately to the UN or UNICEF," she said, adding