Tag: UNICEF

Outright Games to support UNICEF through the release of unique charity video game bundles

Stuart Mitchell

Outright Games, a leading global publisher of family-friendly interactive entertainment, has today announced a long-term partnership with UNICEF in support of the world’s most vulnerable children. This agreement will see Outright Games leverage their world class access to iconic TV and film children’s brands to raise money for UNICEF’s Resources for Results Fund. The Fund helps to pioneer new ideas to address challenges faced by children worldwide, whilst enabling UNICEF to rapidly support those in need during humanitarian emergencies. Outright Games have committed to raise a minimum of £200,000 for…

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Number of children without critical social protection increasing globally

Stuart Mitchell

The number of children without access to social protection is increasing year-on-year, leaving them at risk of poverty, hunger and discrimination, according to a new report released by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and UNICEF. More than a billion reasons: The urgent need to build universal social protection for children  warns that an additional 50 million children aged 0-15 missed out on a critical social protection provision – specifically, child benefits (paid in cash or tax credits) – between 2016 and 2020, driving up the total to 1.46 billion children…

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UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Angélique Kidjo celebrates resilience of girls and young people during visit to Benin

Stuart Mitchell

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Angélique Kidjo returned to her home country Bénin last month to meet children and young people impacted by the spillover of violence from the Sahel crisis, and climate change in the region.   The deteriorating security situation in Burkina Faso, Nigeria, and Niger, as well as rising food prices as a result of climate induced shocks, are affecting access to essential social services for children, refugees, and internally displaced persons in northern Benin. In some border areas with Sahel countries, a number of schools have been temporarily…

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Save the Children, UNICEF and France launch new handbook to strengthen bid to end the recruitment and use of children in conflict

Stuart Mitchell

Children as young as eight are still at risk around the world from the unlawful recruitment by armed forces or armed gangs despite a landmark agreement 15 years ago in Paris to combat the use of children in conflict, organisations including Save the Children and UNICEF warned. The child rights agencies, along with the government of France and other members of the Paris Principles Steering Group (PPSG) – formed after the Paris Principles and Commitments were agreed in 2007 – are now launching new guidance to tackle the issue. The…

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UNICEF UK Launches ‘The C Stands For Children’ Campaign with Accomplice London

Stuart Mitchell

The UK Committee for UNICEF (UNICEF UK), the world’s leading humanitarian organisation for children, has partnered with Accomplice London to launch an integrated, multi-media campaign designed to highlight that children are at the heart of everything UNICEF do. Despite its iconic name, many aren’t aware that UNICEF exists to support children, working in 190 countries to build a better world for every child, every day, everywhere. Working in some of the world’s toughest places, UNICEF reach children who are the furthest from help, the most disadvantaged and the most at…

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