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How To Rock Colour: Be Like Priyanka Chopra This Summer

Swirlster Staff | Monday March 19, 2018

Summer-ready style, right here

Child Marriages Drop By Half In India, Results In Global Decline: UNICEF

India News | Reuters | Tuesday March 6, 2018

The proportion of girls getting married in India has nearly halved in a decade, the United Nations children's agency UNICEF said on Tuesday, which has contributed significantly to a global decline in child marriage.

UN Issues Blank Statement On Syria, Says It Has Run Out Of Words

World News | Reuters | Tuesday February 20, 2018

The U.N. children's fund UNICEF issued a blank "statement" on Tuesday to express its outrage at mass casualties among Syrian children in the besieged enclave of Eastern Ghouta and neighbouring Damascus.

Each Year, 6 Lakh Newborns Die Within 28 Days Of Birth In India: Unicef

India News | Indo-Asian News Service | Tuesday February 20, 2018

A study done by the Unicef says 6 lakh babies die in India within 28 days of their birth every year. The study, released on Tuesday, found that the number of newborn deaths in the country was one of the highest in the world and most of these deaths being preventable.On a brighter side, India has reduced the mortality rate of children less than five...

Babies Born In Poorest Countries Still Face 'Alarming' Risks: UNICEF

World News | Agence France-Presse | Tuesday February 20, 2018

Babies born in the world's poorest countries, most of them in Africa, still face "alarming" risks of death that can be 50 times as high as those in the richest countries, according to a UNICEF report released Tuesday.

Early Childhood Education In India And Why Its Important

Education | Written by Anisha Singh | Wednesday February 14, 2018

The 12th Five Year Plan also acknowledges the importance of Early Childhood Education.

With 69,000 Babies Born On New Year's Day, India Leads Unicef List

India News | Indo-Asian News Service | Tuesday January 2, 2018

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.

UNICEF Report Warns of 'Digital Gender Gap' in India With Only 29 Percent Online Users Female

Press Trust of India | Tuesday December 12, 2017

Globally, 12 percent more men than women used the Internet in 2017. In India, less than one-third of Internet users are female.

Air Pollution May Permanently Damage Your Child's Brain, says UNICEF 

Food | NDTV Food Desk | Wednesday December 6, 2017

South Asia has the largest proportion of babies living in areas where air pollution is at least six times higher than international limits

They Were Rescued From War. Now South Sudan's Child Soldiers Are Going Back.

World News | Kevin Sieff, The Washington Post | Saturday November 11, 2017

Outside, the young men with guns were playing dominoes and drinking tea. Babacho Mama could hear them through the sheet-metal walls of his room.

Their Mothers Never Went to School, Daughters Made Education A Priority

| Monday November 13, 2017

Mumbai: In the narrow alleys of Aarey Colony, next to Royal Palm Estate in suburban Mumbai, lives Gulabsha Rafiq Khan. The 17-year-old lives with her mother and stepfather in a small one-room house whose entrance door greets with a prayer written in Urdu. Her mother Tahira Khan, a native of Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh, married early and came to sett...

Can't Believe I Met Priyanka Chopra, Tweets Malala. Her Sweet Reply

Offbeat | Written by Priyanka Pant | Thursday September 21, 2017

Nobel Peace Laureate Malala Yousafzai only joined Twitter two months ago and uses the microblogging site to share exciting life updates, like getting into Oxford. On Wednesday, the 20-year-old tweeted a sweet "fan girl" moment with actor and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Priyanka Chopra.

Priyanka Chopra Posts About Speaking On Empowerment At United Nations Event

Entertainment | Wednesday September 20, 2017

Priyanka Chopra quoted Mahatma Gandhi's lines which read: "If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children"

‘Bandhan Tod’: A Mobile App To Help End Child Marriage In Bihar

Thomson Reuters Foundation | Wednesday September 20, 2017

Mumbai:  A mobile phone app is the latest tool for campaigners seeking to end child marriage in Bihar, where nearly two-thirds of girls in some of its rural areas are married before the legal age of 18. The app, Bandhan Tod, was developed by Gender Alliance – a collective of more than 270 charities in Bihar focused on gender rights – and launc...

Insanitation Costing India Over $50 Billion, Says Unicef Official

Indo-Asian News Service | Tuesday September 19, 2017

New Delhi: India is losing $53.8 billion every year as a consequence of “inadequate sanitation” which includes expenditure on the treatment of water-borne diseases, chief of WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene), Unicef, said on Monday. “India is paying a heavy price because of… preventable water-borne diseases: a study from the World Bank p...