The United Nations Children's Fund is calling for a halt to the forced recruitment of child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It says all warring parties in North Kivu Province forcibly recruit children into their armies. Lisa Schlein re...
The UN Children's Fund is leading a campaign to get thousands of children displaced by the war in Georgia back to school. UNICEF says getting children, who are traumatized by war back into a structured school program, will help them regain their sen...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 24 February 2007 The U.N. Children's Fund says children account for half of the estimated 120,000 people made homeless by severe flooding in central Mozambique and a subsequent cyclone. Lisa Schlein reports for VOA from Geneva....
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 29 October 2006 The United Nations, in collaboration with the Nigerian government, has launched an ambitious girls' education program to boost gender parity in primary schools. The program is focusing on the northern region...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 09 September 2006 This school building in Bint Jbeil, Lebanon sustained heavy damage after the Isreali military campaign UNICEF says it is working with the Education Ministry in Lebanon to have 350,000 Lebanese children in sch...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 11 July 2006 Kashmiris who survived massive earthquake sit on rubble of school in village of Balgran (File photo - Jan. 31, 2006) U.N. Children's Fund says it will spend $150 million to reconstruct hundreds of schools and rura...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 26 April 2006 The U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) warns the situation in Sudan's conflict-ridden Darfur province has deteriorated significantly in the past few months. UNICEF says...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 31 March 2006 Women fetch water in drought-hit Dubluk, Ethiopia The U.N. Children's Fund, UNICEF, says Ethiopian children are facing an epidemic of lethal diseases. UNICEF says...
DEVELOPMENT REPORT – January 28, 2002: UNICEF Child Sex Report By Jill Moss This is the VOA Special English Development Report. A new report by the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, says mil...
By Anjana Pasricha The United Nations is urging governments in South Asia to intensify efforts to tackle the growing problem of child sexual exploitation. UNICEF says the problem has worsened since So...