United Nations International Children S Emergency Fund

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  One Child Or Teenager Infected With HIV Every 100 Seconds Last Year: UNICEF

  Approximately once every minute and 40 seconds, a child or young person under the age of 20 was infected with HIV last year, the UNICEF said on Wednesday. Nearly 320,000 children and adolescents were infected with HIV and 110,000 children died of AIDS last year.

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  Army Posts Inspiring Story Of First Differently-Abled Indian Appointed To UNICEF

  The Indian Army today shared a post on social media to honour Major Gopal Mitra, the first differently-abled person from India to be appointed at the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF).

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  Nigeria Lifts UNICEF Suspension Hours After Accusing Staff Of Spying

  The Nigerian military on Friday lifted a suspension of United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund activities in the northeast of the country.

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  Drought Puts North Korean Children's Lives at Risk, Says UNICEF

  A severe drought in North Korea is putting the lives of children at risk and many are in serious danger of disease and malnutrition, the UN children's agency said on today.

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  Sierra Leone Gives Malaria Pills to Millions as Part of Ebola Fight

  Sierra Leone began a campaign on Friday to protect almost half the population from malaria, reducing the burden on health services of people visiting clinics wrongly fearing they have Ebola.

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  Aamir Khan Appointed UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador for South Asia

  Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan, who is in Nepal to promote child nutrition, has been appointed as UNICEF's Goodwill Ambassador for South Asian region.

• UN Entrepreneur Taps African Oil for Child Health

  Republic of Congo has become the first country to agree to divert part of its oil revenues towards childhood nutrition, a victory for "innovative financing" to help the world's poorest, the scheme's creator Philippe Douste-Blazy said in an interview.

• Lionel Messi's Facebook Post on Israel-Gaza Conflict Stirs Controversy

  Football star Lionel Messi has been dragged into the ongoing Israel-Gaza conflict, two weeks after the Argentinian wrote in a Facebook post that he was "deeply saddened" by the loss of young lives with a photo of an injured Palestinian boy.

• UNICEF Shows Concern over Juvenile Justice Act Amendments

  UNICEF India today expressed concern over the amendments to the Juvenile Justice Act, under which minors above the age of 16 involved in a serious crime can be tried in an adult court, and said such a decision was a "real step back".

• UNICEF Laments Gaza Child Casualties, Warns of Task Ahead

  More than 400 children have been killed in Israel's assault on Gaza, and almost a thousand times as many are traumatised and face an "extraordinarily bleak" future, the top UNICEF official in Gaza said on Tuesday.

• Tokyo to Ban Sales of Incest Comic to Minors

  The Tokyo government is to ban the sales to children of a manga comic that depicts incestuous relationships, an official said on Tuesday, the first time expanded rules on sexual content have been invoked.

• Gunmen kidnap two Pakistani UN staff members from Karachi

  Gunmen have kidnapped two men working for the U.N. Children's Fund from Pakistan's southern city of Karachi, police said on Saturday.

• Classes reopen in Philippine typhoon zone

  Schools reopened on Monday in badly damaged central Philippine towns for the first time since one of the world's strongest storms ever to hit land killed thousands two months ago.

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  Aamir Khan: Want to contribute to society, nation-building via films

  Aamir Khan says he doesn't have to join politics to bring in change because he can do it as an entertainer.

• Number of adolescents with HIV jumps by one-third: United Nations

  The number of adolescents infected by the HIV virus has jumped by one third over the past decade.