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2005 soccer Gold Cup dedicated to Latin American and Caribbean children – UN agency

6 July 2005
Intensifying its efforts to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS and violence in the Latin American and Caribbean, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is teaming up with a regional soccer association to co-host a three-week long tournament, with ten countries battling for a trophy under the slogan “With Children We Win.”

Day of African Child spotlights continental children's many emergencies

16 June 2005
On the Day of the African Child today, marking the South African apartheid Government's shooting of children marching for improved education in 1976, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) highlighted the deprivation still suffered by African children as funding lags far behind need.

UN food agency, Nigerian leader urge G-8 to focus on child hunger in Africa

10 June 2005
The head of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo today called for greater efforts to eradicate child hunger and malnutrition in Africa, ahead of next month's summit of the leaders of the world's richest countries in Scotland.
Child miner struggles

More than a million children work in mines, “digging for survival,” UN says

9 June 2005
To mark World Day against Child Labour on Sunday, the United Nations labour agency is spotlighting the problems of over a million children around the world who help to support their families by working as miners, often for small unregulated enterprises in dangerous conditions.

African child deaths could reach 5 million by 2015, warns UN agency

9 June 2005
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) warned today that some 5 million African children will die by 2015 if donor countries stick to a "business as usual" approach to development on the continent.

Children in European and Central Asian residential institutions vulnerable to abuse - UN

1 June 2005
The estimated 1 million children who go from broken homes to residential institutions in Europe and Central Asia are “desperately vulnerable” to violence that is only rarely reported, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says in a new report.
Ann Veneman

New UNICEF chief takes up post pledging to help countries reach development goals

2 May 2005
Former United States Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman today became the fifth chief of the 60-year-old United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and promised that the agency would play a key role in helping countries meet the Millennium Development Goals to reduce or eliminate major socio-economic ills by 2015.
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UN-backed meeting seeks to curb violence against children in Indian Ocean area

26 April 2005
In an effort to curb violence against children, experts from five Indian Ocean islands have gathered in Madagascar for a three-day United Nations-backed sub-regional meeting to draw up a plan of action.

UN agencies launch European campaign to combat deadly family child abuse

16 March 2005
With family violence killing four children under the age of 14 each day in Europe, and many thousands more enduring years of abuse for every child who dies, the United Nations has launched a continent-wide campaign against the scourge, declaring that “Home sweet home” is a myth for many children.
Foreign Minister Rogatien Biaou of Benin

Security Council to consider Annan's action plan on ending child soldier recruitment

23 February 2005
Acknowledging the need for a monitoring and reporting mechanism to track the recruitment of child soldiers and other children's rights violations, the United Nations Security Council today said it has started considering the proposal for such an instrument from Secretary-General Kofi Annan.