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Ewan McGregor Auctions Bike for Unicef on Ebay ends Dec 7th

Glasgow :: United Kingdom | 4 days ago

Posted by mwilson16

McGregor auctions bike for charity Actor Ewan McGregor is to auction one of his best-loved motorcycles for charity. The Unicef ambassador has donated his one-off bike to raise money for children across the world. Bidding for the Moto Guzzi California...

Let’s stop these kids from becoming suicide bombers

Kabul :: Afghanistan | 7 days ago

Posted by KhadijaGhazi

According to a senior Unicef official. Afghan children are being recruited as suicide bombers by Afghan military forces. In a country which has been a war zone for quite a long period of time. When people loose their loved ones their property and...

Stoned Somali teen 'was raped'

Mogadishu :: Somalia | 27 days ago

A 13-year-old girl stoned to death on accusations of adultery had apparently been raped, according to the UN. The girl was put in a hole and stoned in Kismayu on October 28, in the first public killing by Islamic militants for about two years. The girl...

Gunmen kill UNICEF worker in Somalia

Mogadishu :: Somalia | about 1 month ago

Sunday, just two days after another local U.N. worker was assassinated in the anarchic Horn of Africa nation, witnesses said. Hudur. "A man with a pistol shot Muktar Mohammed Hassan several times in the head as he was walking in the center of town," A...

Wiggles push UNICEF hand-washing campaign

Mumbai :: India | about 1 month ago

World Hand Washing Day," he said. "They're going to put it on their website and it's going to be hopefully shown on TV through the world and hopefully we can play a small part in raising awareness."

UNICEF: Child mortality down 27% since 1990

Geneva :: Switzerland | 2 months ago

Children's Fund says the number of children who die before the age of five has declined by 27% over the last two decades...She told reporters on Friday that about 9.2 million children under five died last year around the world. But improvements have been...

Bomb kills 15 street cleaners in Mogadishu

Mogadishu :: Somalia | 4 months ago

A roadside bomb killed 15 women who were cleaning rubbish from a street in southern Mogadishu Sunday morning, according to journalists and witnesses at the scene. Many other women street cleaners were also wounded, the witnesses said.

Robbie 'gutted' over footie match

Liverpool :: United Kingdom | 4 months ago

The Angels singer developed Soccer Aid with pal Jonathan Wilkes, but team England will now have to find a new skipper. The Angels singer developed Soccer Aid with pal Jonathan Wilkes, but team England will now have to find a new skipper Williams said:...

Charity helps educate two million in Yemen

Dubai :: United Arab Emirates | 4 months ago

8 Dubai: Dubai Cares' latest partnership with the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) will benefit more than two million children in Yemen, the charity campaign said on Sunday. Gulf News quoted the chairperson of the campaign, minister of state Reem...

UNICEF: Burma cyclone recovery proceeding well

Yangon :: Myanmar | 4 months ago

Zafrin Chowdhury told The Associated Press, praising individual volunteers as well for their work. Cyclone Nargis on May 2-3 cut a swath of destruction through the Irrawaddy delta and the Burma's largest city of Rangoon, killing 84,537 people and leaving...

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