UNICEF [to 7 June 2014]
http://www.unicef.org/media/media_71508.html

Media Releases [selected]
Liberia’s immunization programme gets a 15-generator boost from UNICEF and GAVI
MONROVIA, Liberia, 6 June 2014 – UNICEF has officially handed over 15 generators to the Government of Liberia to help ensure all children are immunized with vaccines that have been properly and safely stored.

Lowest rainfall in over 50 years is latest threat to children in Syria and region
AMMAN/GENEVA, 6 June 2014 – Parts of Syria are suffering their lowest levels of rainfall in more than half a century, placing more than 4 million children in the war-torn country at even greater risk, UNICEF warned today. The agency said its own work aimed at mitigating the region’s worsening water and sanitation crisis is only 20 per cent funded for 2014.

Pampers and UNICEF unveil ground-breaking achievements in the fight against maternal and newborn tetanus
NEW YORK, 5 June 2014 – UNICEF and Pampers celebrated today their ground-breaking partnership to eliminate maternal and newborn tetanus, a deadly but entirely preventable disease that claims the lives of 58,000 newborns every year.

UNICEF Activate Talks: Child Rights and Disabilities
The latest in the UNICEF Activate Talk Series, bringing together innovators, experts and activists across the world to discuss how advances in innovation can offer solutions to global challenges affecting children.

Cartoon Network Latin America joins the UNICEF initiative ‘Vamos Jogar’ to promote the right to safe and inclusive sport and play of children in Latin America and the Caribbean
ATLANTA, United States / PANAMA CITY, 4 June 2014 – The children’s television channel Cartoon Network, through its social responsibility program ‘Cartoon Movement’, today joined ‘Vamos Jogar’, an initiative of social mobilization and political commitment promoted by UNICEF and the City of Rio de Janeiro to foster the right to safe and inclusive sports, recreation and play for all children and adolescents in Latin America and the Caribbean. Thus, Cartoon Network Latin America becomes the first media partner of this initiative.

UNICEF raises alarm about children caught up in Ukraine violence
NEW YORK/GENEVA/ KYIV, Ukraine, 2 June 2014 – “Seven children have sustained gunshot and shrapnel injuries during violent clashes in East Ukraine since May 9.

United Nations condemns gang-rape and murder of teenage girls in Uttar Pradesh and calls for justice
NEW DELHI, 1 June 2014 – The UN in India condemns the brutal gang-rape and murder of two teenaged girls on the night of May 28 in Katra village in Uttar Pradesh’s Badaun district and calls for immediate action against the perpetrators and to address violence against women and girls across India.