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UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund, estimates that schools, once open between 180 and 200 days a year the shortest period in South Asia are now functioning only 100 days a year.
ECONOMIST: Nepal
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Research by Unicef, the United Nations Children's Fund in 2007 assessed the well-being of children in the UK as the worst in Europe, and in Wales there are record levels of children growing up in poverty, childhood obesity and substance abuse and pregnancy in young teens.
BBC: Your views on childhood today
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According to UNICEF, the United Nations' children's agency, 30% of Pakistanis have received less than two years' education.
ECONOMIST: A small start on the big problem of illiteracy
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According to the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef), around 40m children in sub-Saharan Africa get no basic teaching.
ECONOMIST: No school, no future
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Both the World Health Organization and United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) expressed concern about reports of diarrheal diseases among children in southern Iraq being on the rise due to their drinking contaminated water.
CNN: Baghdad running low on medicine
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But he made sure he was at the Dublin event, where all proceeds were being diverted to the star's favourite charity, Unicef, the United Nations fund for aiding children.
BBC: Neeson headlines Star Wars premier
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Hospitals in Iraq are simply unable to cope, the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) has warned.
BBC: Ali Ismail Abbas
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The United Nations children's agency, Unicef, has repeatedly issued statements accusing Col Karuna and his faction of forcibly recruiting child soldiers.
BBC: Questions over renegade Tamil Tiger
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Getting the 1.8 million children back to school in time for the new term is one of the biggest operations the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) has ever undertaken.
BBC: Back to school in Afghanistan
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With the help of the United Nations Children's Fund, Unicef, Mohammed Mahajneh's team of more than 20 therapists are providing counselling to help the children of Jenin come to terms with their experiences.
BBC: Jenin's traumatised children
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But this week, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned that as many as 1 million people could remain displaced until December because of the widespread destruction in their home towns, such as Mingora.
CNN: Despair, devastation in war-ravaged Swat Valley