UNICEF
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- Official Site: UNICEF | Voices of Youth | Support UNICEF
- Focus areas for UNICEF include: Child Survival and Development, Basic Education and Gender Quality, Prevention and Care of HIV/AIDS in Children, Child Protection, and Policy Advocacy and Partnerships.
- U.S. fund for UNICEF
- UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative
- Wikipedia: UNICEF | List of UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors
- International ambassadors include: David Beckham, Whoopi Goldberg, Roger Federer, Jessica Lange, Ricky Martin, Susan Sarandon and Shakira.
- National ambassadors for the United States include: Angelina Jolie, Clay Aiken, Katie Couric, Angela Bassett, Isabella Rossellini, Laurence Fishburne and Sarah Jessica Parker
- UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre
- Child Trafficking Research HUB
- UNICEF Unite for Children Unite Against AIDS
- The world must take urgent account of the specific impact of AIDS on children, or there will be no chance of meeting Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 6 — to halt and begin to reverse the spread of the disease by 2015. Failure to meet the goal on HIV/AIDS will adversely affect the world’s chances of progress on the other MDGs.
UNICEF Recent News
- Google News: UNICEF
- Yahoo News: UNICEF
- Official Site: UNICEF Photo of the Year 2007s
UNICEF Background, Articles and Blogs
- Official Site: UNICEF history
- Nobelprize.org: UNICEF history
- Innocenti Research Center: An overview of child well-being in rich countries
- University of Montana: UNICEF history
- Google Blog Search: UNICEF
UNICEF Videos and Media
- YouTube: UNICEF TV
- YouTube & Google Video search: UNICEF
- myspacetv.com: Great Moments in UNICEF History (Time: 6:56)
- abc News: Jenna Bush on Her Work with UNICEF (Time: 1:37)
- YouTube: UNICEF: Kenya Drought Situation Worsens (Time: 2:24)
- myspacetv.com: UNICEF receives biggest gift in its South African history (Time: 2:42)
- Google Video: China's first AIDS Youth Ambassadors make history at the Great Wall (Time: 2:34)
UNICEF Timeline
- December 11, 1946: Founded
- 1950: Trick-or-Treat UNICEF box first gets used
- 1953: Becomes permanent part of The United Nations
- 1954: Danny Kaye is first celebrity UNICEF ambassador
- 1959: Child Rights declaration
- 1961: UNICEF focuses on education
- 1965: Nobel Peace Prize
- 1990: Convention on the Rights of the Child
- 2002: Special Session on Children
- 2006: FC Barcelona sponsors UNICEF
UNICEF Field Offices
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