Items related to UNICEF

Israeli anti-riot policemen detain a Palestinian boy during a protest in Aida refugee camp near the West Bank city of Bethlehem on November 16, 2012.
AFP 06 Mar 2013
The ill-treatment of Palestinian minors held within the Israeli military detention system is "widespread,...
Al-Masry Al-Youm 04 Feb 2013
The Health Ministry's preventative medicine department issued a state of alert regarding the discovery of the polio...
AFP 22 Jan 2013
ISLAMABAD — Pakistani health officials Monday called for infants leaving the country to be issued polio...
Egypt's street children suffer abuse at the hands of police.
Sarah Carr 26 Dec 2011
The United Nations’ Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has added its voice to calls for the protection of children...
Heba Helmy 07 Jun 2011
According to a 2011 report from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the deterioration in economic...
Refugees who fled the fighting in Libya wait for a bus on March 4, 2011 at Ras Jedir in Tunisia at the frontier with Libya after spending the night outdoors. A major European operation was under way to airlift out of Tunisia thousands of people who fled the bloodshed in Libya as Washington also offered planes to repatriate Egyptian refugees.
Staff 04 Mar 2011
Several European countries including France, Germany and Spain began concerted efforts Thursday to shuttle thousands of...