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Happy Fathers Day
Today is Father’s Day, and we want to celebrate the strength of paternal bonds with this selection of beautiful images from our Flickr of fathers spending time with their children. Model Farmer...
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Runaway Child Bride on a New Beginning
By Bethlehem Kiros Girls socialize in their dorm rooms at the Semera Girl’s Boarding School, a school that serves as a safe haven for many girls that escape their home villages after being forced to...
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National Girl Summit to Reiterate Ethiopia’s Commitment to End FGM/C and...
Child Marriage and Female Genital Mutilation/ Cutting don’t just cause physical and emotional pain. The practices reflect the value of girls and women in society that have been passed from generation...
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Ethiopia boosts its efforts to end child marriage and FGM/C by 2025 at the...
By Wossen Mulatu Participants of national girl summit 2015 at Sheraton Addis on 25 June 2015. ©UNICEF Ethiopia/2015/Ayene 25 June 2015, Addis Ababa: Today, the Government of Ethiopia reiterated its...
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UNICEF, WHO: Lack of sanitation for 2.4 billion people undermining health...
A south Sudanese refugee Nvakuache Tut takes a shower by the way of water poured from a jerry can. 26, June 2014 Burbie South Sudanese Refugees Reception Centre Gambella Ethiopia. ©UNICEF...
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Investing in learning from a child’s very earliest days critical to have a...
Early childhood care and education is the first stage of lifelong learning and development. It lays the necessary foundation for building higher-level cognitive and non-cognitive skills and has the...
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Regional experts confirm the polio outbreak is successfully interrupted in...
Vigilance in Somalia and region still needed before the region is declared polio-free once more. By Shalini Rozario Dr. Jean-Marc Olive, Horn of Africa (HOA) Polio Technical Advisory Group (TAG) Chair,...
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We can eliminate violence against children – Sustaining investments in childhood
WHAT: Discussion on the role of a global partnership and fund to end violence against children. WHO: Ms. Marta Santos Pais – UN SRSG on Violence against Children H.E. Hon. Saada Mkuya Salum –...
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Sustaining Achievements in Polio Eradication in Ethiopia and Africa
PDG Dr Tadesse Alemu, President of Rotary National Polio Plus Committee, World Health Organisation (WHO) Director General Dr Margaret Chan, UNAIDS Executive Director Mr Michel Sidibe, UNICEF Deputy...
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Translate commitments to invest in children into action, UNICEF urges leaders...
Rahmat and her baby Ne’ema Abdu-Dessie Zurie Woreda © UNICEF Ethiopia/2013/Tsegaye NEW YORK/ADDIS ABABA, 15 July 2015 – At the close of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development,...
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From the Sheikh and Imam to the Nomad: Engaging a Network of Allies to End...
By Jasmine Pittenger, UNICEF consultant and writer For many nomads in Ethiopia’s Somali Region, home is a hand-sewn tent. To reach families that are constantly on the move, it is essential to tap...
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The Girl Summit: progress after one year
Originally posted on UNICEF Connect - UNICEF BLOG: Hamamatou (15), from Niger, is the recipient of a UNICEF-supported girls’ scholarship that is helping her stay in school. ©...
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Since 2014, ART clients in Ethiopia have been getting their CD4 status in 20...
By Tesfaye Simerta Ayele Feyisa Laboratory technician takes sample blood at Chancho health centre, Oromia special zone surrounding Finfinne Sululta woreda, Ethiopia ©UNICEF Ethiopia/2014/Ayene CHANCHO...
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Water for agriculture: managing the land and rains in the Ethiopian highlands
This blog is re-published from reachwater.org.uk website 21 July 2015 By Andrew Dansie, DPhil Researcher at Oxford University who joined the REACH diagnostic field visit to Ethiopia, June-July 2015. A...
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Media Get-Together with UNICEF National Ambassadors -Abelone Melesse and...
By Wossen Mulatu Media meets UNICEF Ethiopia National Ambassadors-Hannah Godefa and Abelone Melesse on Friday, 24 July 2015 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. ©UNICEF Ethiopia/2015/Sewunet ADDIS ABABA, 24 July...
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UNICEF Ethiopia inaugurates its breastfeeding room at the new office facility
By Wossen Mulatu Staff children inaugurate UNICEF Ethiopia’s breastfeeding room ©UNICEF Ethiopia/2015/Sewunet 7 August 2015:- Globally, World Breastfeeding Week is celebrated from 1-7 August. This...
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The Teenage Parliamentarian
By Bethlehem Kiros Ubah Jemal, 15, makes a call before a meeting of the Girls Club in Jigjiga, Somali Region, Ethiopia, 24 January 2015. Ubah is the vice president of the Somali Region Children’s...
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A great day for Africa: polio nears its end
Originally posted on UNICEF Connect - UNICEF BLOG: Today marks one year since we have had a case of the wild poliovirus anywhere in Africa, the last having been reported from Somalia with a date of...
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Ethiopia’s reduced child mortality rate
Not so very long ago Ethiopia had one of the worst child mortality rates in Africa but it’s managed to slash the death toll by two-thirds, three years ahead of the Millennium Development Goal’s...
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Support from the EU successfully contributes to closure of polio outbreak in...
Addis Ababa, 12 August 2015 – Support from the European Commission’s European Union has successfully contributed to efforts to contain the spread of the wild polio virus in Ethiopia, the United...
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