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UNICEF: Snipers Targeting Children in Libyan City

GENEVA -- Snipers are targeting children in the besieged rebel-held Libyan city of Misrata, the U.N.' s children agency said Friday. Hundreds of residents have been killed and wounded in the assault by Gadhafi's forces on Libya's third-largest city, and residents are running short of water, food and...

On World Water Day, Ways You Can Help

It might be the most taken-for-granted resource we enjoy: fresh, clean water. But every day, 900 million people have no clean water, and 2.6 billion have no access to adequate sanitation. Almost 10,000 children younger than 5 in Third World countries die as a result of illnesses contracted by use of unclean water each...

Child Witchcraft Allegations on Rise in Africa, UN Says

(July 19) -- A growing number of children in parts of Africa are being singled out each year as being possessed by witchcraft, resulting in their being beaten, tortured and even killed, a U.N. study reports. Until 10 to 20 years ago, women and the elderly were considered the ones most at risk of being identified as...

UN Pushes Its Bans on Child Soldiers, Sale of Children

(May 26) -- A third of the world's nations still haven't signed treaties outlawing the recruitment of child soldiers and the sale and prostitution of children. A decade after the United Nations adopted the accords, the U.N. says it's taking them way too long to do so. "In too many places, children are seen as commodities,...

American Charities Raise Nearly $1 Billion for Haiti

(March 17) -- Following Haiti's devastating earthquake, Americans opened their hearts and picked up their cell phones. A tally by The Chronicle of Philanthropy finds that in the nine weeks following the magnitude-7.0 quake that leveled much of Port-au-Prince and the surrounding areas on Jan. 12, American charities raised...

Background on Unicef

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF; ) is an international charity, headquartered in New York City, that provides long-term humanitarian and developmental assistance to children and mothers in developing countries.

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