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UNICEF USA launches new advertising campaign appealing for public involvement to ensure ZERO children die unnecessarily NEW YORK, Sept. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The number of under-five child deaths has dropped 27 percent in the last four years - a figure that demonstrates it is possible to radically reduce child mortality, says Caryl Stern, president and CEO of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF. "This proves that the simple, affordable interventions championed by UNICEF can make...

As anticipation builds for the 2012 Social Good Summit, this annual event and the founding partners of the original 2010 edition, were recognized as a finalist for this year's PR News’ Platinum PR Awards. Washington D.C. (PRWEB) September 10, 2012 As anticipation builds for the 2012 Social Good Summit, this annual event and the founding partners of the original 2010 edition, were recognized as a finalist for this year's PR News’ Platinum PR Awards. Every September, the...

Chloe Grace Moretz takes time to encourage others to give back this Halloween NEW YORK, Sept. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Critically acclaimed actress Chloe Grace Moretz, of films such as Dark Shadows, Hugo, 500 Days of Summer and Let Me In is taking time this Halloween to lend her support for the 62(nd) annual Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF campaign. One of the longest-running youth engagement campaigns in America, Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF enables kids to make a...

KAMUELA, Hawaii, Sept. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The International Lunar Observatory Association signs historic MOU with NAOC - National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences. In the first such USA / China collaboration, the parties agree to establish a cooperative program to conduct Galaxy, Astronomical Imaging for Global 21st Century Education using the Lunar Telescope of China's Chang'e-3 Moon Lander (scheduled for launch in 2013). With an exchange in kind, NAOC...

One lucky winner to be chosen from among attendees of Global Festival 2012 in Central Park on September 29 NEW YORK, Sept. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Global Poverty Project (GPP) has teamed up with the U.S. Fund for UNICEF to offer the opportunity for one lucky winner plus a guest to meet UNICEF Ambassador Selena Gomez at GPP's Global Festival on September 29 in Central Park. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120906/DC69011 ) Gomez will be participating...

BELLEVUE, Wash., Aug. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Second Amendment Foundation today reminded the United Nations that "if women have the right to be protected against violence, then they have the right to protect themselves against violence." So spoke SAF's Director of Operations Julianne Versnel, whose remarks to the U.N. Programme of Action conference were unlike anything many delegates had ever heard before. The conference is seen as the first step toward rekindling...

MONTRÉAL, August 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Includes call for cancer target inclusion in revision of UN's Millennium Development Goals Cancer control and government experts at the 2012 World Cancer Congress today outlined the priority actions needed to achieve the first United Nations' goal on non-communicable diseases (NCDs); an overall reduction in premature deaths by 25% by 2025. Four NCDs - cancer, heart and cardiovascular, diabetes, and chronic respiratory...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On 23 August 2012, the Iran Policy Committee (IPC) examined three sets of events regarding Iranian dissidents in Iraq, who are members of the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK) and concluded in a press release that certain actions are necessary to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe as well as to correct wrongs. These events include: 1) A 21 July interview with as well as a 22 July article by a high level whistleblower who is a former official...

NEW YORK, Aug. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The recent revelations by Mr. Tahar Boumedra, a senior former UN Human Rights Official, about the actions of the United Nations Secretary General's Special Representative for Iraq, Ambassador Martin Kobler, raise questions as to whether the SGSR possesses the integrity, the competence and veracity to be an impartial arbiter in dealing with the issue of the 3,400 Iranian dissidents in Iraq, residents of Camp Ashraf and the...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Committee for Camp Ashraf Residents (USCCAR) has learnt of shocking revelations made by Mr. Tahar Boumedra, chief of the Human Rights Office for the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), regarding the outrageous cover-up by Ambassador Martin Kobler, the United Nations Secretary-General's Special Representative for Iraq, to deceive the international community about the prison-like conditions at Camp Liberty....