Tag: Unicef

Bhubaneswar: The Department of Public Health, Government of Odisha in collaboration with UNICEF organized a press conference to generate awareness regarding Iodine Deficiency Disorders (IDD). Participants included Director Public Health, Sapneswar Gadanaik; Director- Health Services,Dr.Hara Prasad Pattnaik; Director- State Institute of Health and Family Welfare,Dr. Binayak Prasad Prusty, Addl. Director (PH) Dr. Shakti Prasad Padhi […]

Bhubaneswar: The Commissionerate Police launched a two-day workshop at its headquarters in Bhubaneswar on Tuesday in collaboration with UNICEF to provide training to its staff on cracking cyber crime cases. The two-day workshop – ‘Training on Cyber Crime Investigation for Police Officers’- aims to provide training to police personnel of all police stations and outposts […]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Police is all set to start a mega awareness campaign titled ‘Pari Paain Katha Tie’ to spread the message on safety of minor girls. Giving out the details during a presser on Wednesday, DGP RP Sharma said, “There has been a steep rise in cases of sexual assaults on minor girls in […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government today announced that its community management of malnutrition programme would be extended to all 30 districts of the state. The decision was taken at the Empowered Committee Meeting held under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary A P Padhi. Padhi later said the programme would be implemented together with the department of health […]

Bhubaneswar: Education could be the key to reduce malnourishment among tribal children in India, State Tribal Welfare minister Sudam Marandi said at the national conference on nourishment of tribal children here on Thursday. “All issues pertaining to tribals will be solved through education,” he added. Speaking on the occasion, Unicef representative to India Louis-Georges Arsenault […]

United Nations: Over 300 million children globally between the age of five and 17 years of age were not in school, the Unicef said in a news report. More than one-third of them, or about 104 million, are in countries affected by conflict or disaster, the report titled “A future stolen: young and out-of-school” revealed […]

New Delhi: An estimated 78 million babies — or three out of five — worldwide are not breastfed within the first hour of life which puts them at higher risk of death and diseases and lower their chances of meeting physical and mental growth standards, according to a new Unicef and WHO report. However, India […]

  United Nations: The United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) has said violence had a devastating toll on children, who were being killed in ongoing conflicts or suicide attacks, or freezing to death as they fled active war zones. Describing January as “a dark month” in crisis-torn Middle East and North Africa, Geert Cappelaere, Unicef Director for […]

United Nations: The United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) has estimated that nearly 386,000 babies were born on New Year’s Day, with India heading the list with 69,070. More than 90 percent of the births took place in less developed regions, reports Xinhua news agency. The Unicef reported that globally over half the births were estimated […]

United Nations: The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) announced the appointment of Syrian refugee Muzoon Almellehan as its newest and youngest Goodwill Ambassador. The appointment, which came on the eve of World Refugee Day, makes 19-year-old female education activist Muzoon the first person with official refugee status to become an Ambassador for Unicef, Xinhua news agency […]

The Odisha government's endeavour to make the state free of open defecation by 2019 looks almost impossible to achieve, a senior Unicef official said on Thursday

Guwahati: Most children enter primary school at age five with little readiness for it, leading to low learning levels, according to a new report by UNICEF and three other institutions. The study, jointly conducted in Assam, Rajasthan and Telangana by UNICEF, Centre for Early Childhood Education (CECED) and the ASER Centre, found that a majority […]

Bhubaneswar: A national conclave would be held here next month to work out strategies for properly nourishing tribal children who suffer from chronic under-nutrition. The two-day conclave, being organised by Union Tribal Affairs Ministry, Government of Odisha and UNICEF from January 15, would provide a platform for identifying gaps and finding innovative solutions to under-nutrition, […]

Gurgaon: Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar on yesterday said the state government has started the process to set up a “State Nutrition Commission” and formulate a “State Nutrition Policy” to address malnutrition among children. The chief minister was speaking at an event organised for the ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao” programme here. He said the […]

Thousands of people who fled to underground shelters in the city of Donetsk are still there, waiting for a diplomatic solution that will allow them to resume a normal life in eastern Ukraine, currently the stronghold of the pro-Russian militias opposing the government in Kiev