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Sweden Queen participates in seminar on human trafficking
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 05 (ANI): Swedish Queen Silvia Renate Sommerlath, who is here on a state visit, has visited United Nations office in the national capital to attend a seminar on human trafficking in India and South Asia.
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Odisha govt collaborates with UNICEF to create awareness about child right
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], Nov 20 (ANI): Government of Odisha collaborated with United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), along with Odisha Alliance Child Rights (OACR) in Bhubaneswar on W
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Skill India, Start-Up India good beginning, but need to be put together wi
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Oct 31 (ANI): The Indian government's flagship initiatives like Skill India and Start-Up India is a good beginning to address the need of imparting skill training and education necessary for employment to the youth, but these programmes needs to be put together
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Odisha govt inks LoU for 'drink from tap mission' with UNICEF
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], Oct 26 (ANI): In a bid to provide quality drinking water to every urban household in the state, Odisha has inked a Letter of Understanding (LoU) on "drink from tap mission" with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) on Friday.
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Odisha government plans to make state child marriage free by 2030
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], Oct 24 (ANI): In a bid to end child marriage in Odisha, the Department of Women and Child Development and Mission Shakti has launched a state Strategic Action Plan (SAP) with the support of UNICEF & UNFPA.
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Over 5,000 children killed, injured in Yemen's war: UNICEF
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Sana'a [Yemen], Oct 24 (ANI): More than 5,000 children have been killed or injured, while over half a million have dropped out of school in Yemen since the war between the Yemeni government and Houthi rebels erupted in March 2015, the UNICEF said on Wednesday.
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Odisha unveils 'Tikki Mausi' to combat malnutrition among children, women
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], Sept 26 (ANI): With an aim to spread awareness about child and woman's nutrition, Women and Child Development and Mission Shakti Department in collaboration with the UNICEF unveiled a mascot named 'Tikki Mausi' here on Thursday.
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Group of 16 young climate activists including India's Ridhima Pandey file
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
New York [US], Sept 24 (ANI): Sixteen youth activists including India's Ridhima Pandey and Swedish Greta Thunberg on Monday filed an "official complaint" before the United Nations Committee demanding the organisation to order member states to take actions for protecting children from the "de
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UNICEF Executive Director calls on PM Modi on UNGA sidelines
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
New York [USA], Sept 24 (ANI): United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) Executive Director Henrietta Fore called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the 74th UN General Assembly session here on Monday.
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PM Modi arrives Houston to attend 'Howdy, Modi' event
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Texas [US], Sept 21 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday arrived Houston where he is scheduled to address 50,000 Indian diaspora at mega 'Howdy Modi' event.
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Open defecation down by 47 pc in India between 2000-2017: WHO-UNICEF repor
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept 19 (ANI): As much as 43 per cent of Indians have gained access to basic sanitation, while the practice of open defecation decreased by 47 per cent in the country between 2000 and 2017, says a WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) report.
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Minimum age for brides raised to 19 in Indonesia
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Jakarta [Indonesia], Sept 18 (ANI): In a bid to curb child marriage in the country, Indonesia's parliament has revised its marriage law to lift the minimum age at which women can marry by three years to 19.
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