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UN urges Group of Eight nations to step up investments in maternal health

18 April 2008
A United Nations-backed drive issued a call to the leaders of the Group of Eight (G8) industrialized nations today to fulfil their prior pledges to global health and to boost their investments to avert the deaths of more than 6 million mothers, newborns and children yearly.

Health care must be scaled up to reduce maternal and child deaths – UN

16 April 2008
With over 10 million women and children in developing countries still dying every year from largely preventable and treatable causes, a new report by United Nations agencies and their partners calls for scaling up health care systems to reduce maternal and child deaths.

UNICEF heralds new children’s protection laws in South Africa

10 April 2008
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has welcomed the signing of new laws in South Africa on the protection of children, calling them “a major step” forward in ensuring the well-being of the country’s young people.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

Secretary-General hails courage of children, families confronting autism

2 April 2008
As the United Nations marked the first World Autism Awareness Day, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon paid tribute to the courage of children with autism and their families, who strive every day “to confront the disability with a powerful combination of determination, creativity and hope.”