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Cash-strapped Pakistan to seek flood aid from international lenders
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 3 (ANI): Pakistan is planning to reach out to global lenders for monetary assistance to deal with devastating floods in the country, local media reported on Saturday.
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About 8 lakh livestock lost in Pakistan floods
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 2 (ANI): Over the past few weeks, torrential monsoon rains have broken a century-long record and dumped more than five times the 30-year average for rainfall in some provinces, killing more than 1200 people, including about 400 children.
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More than three million children at risk as devastating floods hit Pakista
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 1 (ANI): More than three million children are in need of humanitarian assistance and at increased risk of waterborne diseases, and malnutrition due to the most severe flooding in Pakistan's recent history, according to UNICEF.
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Over three million children at risk after massive floods in Pakistan: UNIC
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 1 (ANI): More than three million children are at risk in Pakistan following the devastating floods, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said in a statement on Wednesday.
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Half of health care facilities globally lack basic hygiene services: UN re
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland]/ New York [US], August 30 (ANI): Half of health care facilities worldwide lack basic hygiene services with water and soap or alcohol-based hand rub where patients receive care and at toilets in these facilities, according to the latest Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) re
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Sri Lanka: Devastating crisis for children, a 'cautionary tale' for South
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], August 27 (ANI): Staple foods have become unaffordable, warned UNICEF Regional Director for South Asia, George Laryea-Adjei as the island nation continues to suffer its worst financial slump since its independence.
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Nearly 1,000 children killed or injured in Ukraine: UNICEF
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Kyiv [Ukraine], August 23 (ANI): Nearly 1,000 boys and girls have been killed or injured in the war in Ukraine, the head of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said adding that the actual number could be much higher.
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Millions more children to benefit from world's first malaria vaccine: UNIC
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
New York [US], August 17 (ANI): The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has awarded a contract for the first ever supply of a malaria vaccine to pharmaceutical company GSK with a value of up to USD 170 million.
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Depriving girls of secondary education costs USD 500mn to Afghan economy:
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 16 (ANI): Keeping girls out of secondary school costs Afghanistan 2.5 per cent of its annual GDP, according to a new analysis by UNICEF.
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Celebrating the youth on this International Youth Day through a Gujarat Yo
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Gandhinagar (Gujarat) [India], August 13 (ANI/ATK): The youth of today hold the potential to inspire change, to make our world peaceful and to strive for the world we dream of. To celebrate the brewing possibilities, talent and promise, this International Youth day, Gujarat Youth Forum, Elix
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Australian team donates Sri Lanka tour prize money for supporting children
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Led by Pat Cummins, a United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) Australia ambassador, the team will donate $45,000 to the organisation's Sri Lanka appeal.
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Priyanka Chopra in Poland to meet Ukrainian refugees
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 1 (ANI): Actor Priyanka Chopra, who has now been associated with UNICEF for almost a decade and a half, is currently in Poland to meet the Ukrainian refugees forced to flee Ukraine amid the Russian invasion.
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