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  Williamson worried about Bangladesh

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 10:12pm on June 27, 2020

  New Zealand Cricket team captain Kane Williamson expressed his concerns over the coronavirus situation in Bangladesh while appearing in an appeal for UNICEF. Williamson along...

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  Pandemic puts 86m children at risk of poverty: study

  Agence France-Presse . United Nations | Updated at 01:21am on May 29, 2020

  The economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic could push as many as 86 million more children into poverty by the end of 2020, a joint...

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  Greta donates $100,000 to support children

  Agence France-Presse . United Nations | Updated at 12:07pm on April 30, 2020

  Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has donated a $100,000 prize she won from a Danish foundation to the United Nations Children’s Fund for use against...

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  South Asia faces fresh health crisis as children miss vaccinations

  Agence France-Presse . Islamabad | Updated at 07:40pm on April 28, 2020

  South Asia could face a further public health crisis as children miss routine vaccinations, the UN warned Tuesday, spurring fears that the fallout from the...

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  UNICEF for releasing children from detention

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:39am on April 14, 2020

  The United Nations Children’s Fund has expressed fear that children in detention centers across the globe are in high risk of exposure to coronavirus and...

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  UNICEF alerts people against coronavirus misinformation

  Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha . Dhaka | Updated at 01:03am on March 09, 2020

  The United Nations Children Fund on Sunday issued a statement alerting people against misleading information about the possible preventive steps against the novel disease purporting...

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  Efforts can save 1,40,000 Bangladesh kids from pneumonia deaths: UNICEF

  United News of Bangladesh . Dhaka | Updated at 12:27am on January 30, 2020

  Boosting efforts to fight pneumonia could avert nearly 140,000 child deaths from pneumonia and other major diseases in Bangladesh, according to a new analysis. Forecasts...

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  UNICEF delegation calls on UGC chairman

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 01:44am on January 20, 2020

  A three-member delegation from UNICEF called on the University Grants Commission of Bangladesh chairman Kazi Shahidullah at the latter’s office in Dhaka on Sunday. UNICEF,...

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  Bangladeshi diplomat elected UNICEF president

  Diplomatic Correspondent | Updated at 10:42pm on January 15, 2020

  Bangladesh permanent representative and ambassador to the United Nations Rabab Fatima was unanimously elected as the president of the executive board of the United Nations...

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  4.3m children still out of school in Bangladesh: UNICEF

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:03am on November 24, 2019

  At present 4.3 million children aged between six and 15 years are still out of schools in Bangladesh, said UNICEF’s representative in Dhaka Tomoo Hozumi...