05/05/2018
Midwives are vital to driving sustainable development and key to helping mothers, and expectant-mothers, make informed, healthy choices, on 4 May 2018 said the United Nations health agency’s chief nurse.
UNICEF/Antoine Raab | Nhek Chande, a secondary midwife at a local health centre in rural Cambodia conducts a prenatal check-up for a pregnant woman. Midwives play an important role in the communities, helping mothers, and expectant-mothers, make informed, healthy choices.
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WHO’s Chief Nursing Officer, Elizabeth Iro, said ahead of the International Day of the Midwife, marked on Saturday, that communities everywhere were best served by letting midwives work together with mothers and their newborns, to provide continuity of care, as children develop.
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05/05/2018
People everywhere need to cut down on their consumption of artery-clogging fatty foods, the World Health Organization (WHO) is urging, in a new report released on 4 May 2018.
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Public Domain. | Fries with cheese. According to a new WHO study there are 17 million deaths every year caused by cardiovascular diseases. | Source: WHO
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The initiative is a bid to prevent some of the 17 million deaths caused every year by cardiovascular diseases, which have been linked to food containing saturated fats and trans-fats.
Saturated fats are commonly found in butter, salmon, egg yolks and cows’ milk.
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05/05/2018
Some 200,000 girls and boys in eastern Ukraine are commuting to schools whose classroom walls are often riddled with bullets, and playgrounds scattered with metal remnants of war, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, in a statement released on 4 May 2018.
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© UNICEF/UN0150817/Gilbertson V | Children in Ukraine are forced to study in what have been described as
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“Children are learning in schools with
bullet holes in the walls and sandbags in windows, bomb shelters in the basements and shrapnel in school yards,” said UNICEF’s Ukraine Representative, Giovanna Barberis.
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05/05/2018
Highlighting the devastating impact of the humanitarian crisis and increasing violence on Gaza’s children, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has called on all parties with influence on the ground to prioritize their protection.
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UNICEF/ El Baba | On 20 April 2016 in Gaza, Occupied Palestinian Territories, a student looks inside of one of the classrooms that was destroyed during the 2014 hostilities.
“The escalating violence in Gaza has exacerbated the suffering of children whose lives have already been unbearably difficult for several years,” Geert Cappelaere, the Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa at UNICEF, on 4 May 2018 said in a statement.
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04/05/2018
2 May, 2018 — In the 1990s, Marija Andjelkovic worked at a call centre for girls experiencing violence, when she received a training on human trafficking. In those days, trafficking was not a known, researched and understood phenomenon in Serbia which left an institutional vacuum in addressing the needs of survivors.
Marija Anjelkovic. Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
The training opened her eyes, says Andjelkovic, speaking to UN Women during an event at the 62nd session of the Commission on the Status of Women: “I realized that some of the girls I had spoken to were probably victims of trafficking!”
She was one of the first civil society activists to raise the issue of human trafficking in the Balkan region, and went on to become the founder and Director of the Serbian NGO, ASTRA-Anti trafficking action.
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04/05/2018
The European economy is expected to continue growing at a robust pace, but faces negative spillovers from the fiscal stimulus and trade restrictions adopted by US President Donald Trump, the European Commission warned on Thursday (3 May 2018).
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04/05/2018
The fighting in Syria “is not over” and neither is the “marathon of suffering” for millions of people in the war-torn country, a senior aid official at the UN on 3 May 2018 said.
UNICEF/Giovanni Diffidenti | Boys pass rubble and destroyed buildings on their way to a nearby private school offering basic lessons, in the city of Maarat al-Numaan, Idlib Governorate.
Jan Egeland, Special Adviser to the UN Special Envoy for Syria, was speaking to journalists after a scheduled humanitarian task force meeting in Geneva.
“It’s not over, and that’s what I fear, people think it’s over,” he said, amid reports that “tens of thousands of people” from Rural Damascus were preparing to evacuate to Idlib in the north-west of the country.
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04/05/2018
3 May 2018 — United Nations agencies have urged greater international support to stave off severe food insecurity in Africa’s western Sahel; a region reeling from the effects of conflict and now threatened by drought and rising hunger.
UNICEF/Tremeau | A mother caresses the head of her sleeping malnourished baby, at the mother and child centre in the town of Diffa, Niger
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According to estimates, about five million people in northern Senegal, southern Mauritania and parts of Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso and Chad, will require food and livelihood assistance, after having exhausted their food reserves – which may run out by the end of this month.
In normal weather conditions, supplies would last beyond June, into September.
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04/05/2018
3 May 2018 — Mental health remains one of the most neglected global health issues, even though it is critical to the achievement of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by world leaders, top United Nations officials have said at an event in London.
WHO | World Mental Health Day is marked on 10 October each year, with this year looking at mental health in the work place.
“One in four people experience a mental health episode in their lifetime, but the issue remains largely neglected,” said UN Secretary-General António Guterres in his opening remarks to a roundtable discussion on mental health, co-organized by his office, the World Health Organization (WHO), and the Wellcome Trust, a charitable foundation that supports scientists and researchers.
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03/05/2018
The “Akademik Lomonosov” – the world’s first purpose-built floating nuclear power plant © Nicolai Gontar / Greenpeace
No, we’re not joking. No, this isn’t science fiction. This is really happening.
Rosatom, the Russian state-controlled nuclear giant, is launching the “Akademik Lomonosov”, the first of its kind, into the world. It’s currently being towed through the Baltic sea, where it will go all around Scandinavia to Murmansk, to be fuelled and tested, before it heads off on a 5,000 km journey through the Arctic.
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