routes that most people received their food from. This caused famine and starvation‚ and Audrey became malnourished. She even said that she had to "eat tulip bulbs as a source of nutrients" (Backlots). Eventually the country was freed and a branch of UNICEF provided an abundance of food‚ which is what inspired her to devote her time to
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liberation in 1945. Audrey spent the next years seeing her family members shot in the streets by Germans and Jewish children being loaded off trains and on to deportation trucks. Seeing these poor children suffer lead Hepburn to make a commitment to UNICEF children’s charity. After the war‚ Audrey went to London where she continued to practice ballet. She had great talent but her height and malnutrition during the war meant that she was unable to become a really great ballerina‚ and so decided to seek
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Committee Name: The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Committee Topic: Child Malnutrition in Haiti Country Name: Republic of Ireland A. Brief Background of the Topic The Haiti earthquake in January 2010 had a detrimental impact on the rate of malnutrition within the country. However‚ according to UNICEF‚ Haiti already had the highest number of children that were suffering from malnutrition in Latin America and Caribbean region. Children in Haiti are not consuming the proper amount of
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Word count: 2927 minus 446 = 2479 words Issue (3pts): Female Genital Mutilation/ Cutting II. Kairos (4pts): In July 2013 UNICEF published the largest report yet into the extent of FGM. (Report “Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: A statistical overview and exploration of the dynamics of change.”) In July 2013 Germany also passed the first law against FGM‚ including a maximum penalty up to 15 years jail sentence. With this newly introduced law Germany is now considered to be among the strictest
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Table of Contents 1 Assesment outcomes: 4 2 Introduction: 4 3 Aims and Objectives of the project: 5 3.1 TESCO 5 3.2 YO SUSHI 6 Small brief about yo sushi 6 3.3 UICEF 7 Unicef is a charity‚ work to protect child rights‚ UNICEF UK established in 1956 and is one of 36 UNICEF National Committees based in industrialized countries. It is a charitable company limited by guarantee and is governed by a Board of Trustees. The Board meets regularly to discuss governance matters‚ including the charity’s vision
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Introduction The implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in the Caribbean was met with the issue of parental resistance. The concept of children’s rights was characterised as foreign to parents. The critical traits valued in the Caribbean are obedience and mannerliness. As a result‚ the concept of Children’s Rights is seen as undermining the right of the parent to control and discipline the child and develop the valued traits. The Convention for the Rights of the Child was
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References: ADB. 1996. Urban Poverty Reduction Project. Asian Development Bank. Bangladesh Consultants Limited‚ PROSHIKA‚ Dhaka. BBS. 2001. Labor Force Report. Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics‚ Dhaka. BBS-UNICEF. 2007. Multiple Indicators Clusters Survey Bangladesh 2006‚ Key Findings. BBS-UNICEF‚ Dhaka BBS- NCLS Cole‚ R.L. 1980. Introduction to Political Inquiry‚ Macmillan Publishing‚ New York. Iftekhar‚ M Shafiqul Kalam. 2007. Glimpse on Child Labor: A Study on Child Labor Situation in Dhaka City
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Bureau of South Asian Affairs (2004‚December). Background Note: Afghanistan. U.S. Department of State‚ http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/5380.htm UNHCR (2001‚September‚10) Afghan Refugee Statistics‚ http://www.unhcr.ch/news/media/afghan/stat0917.pdf UNICEF (2001) State of the World ’s Children 2001. Retrieved February 17‚ 2005 from‚ http://www.unicef.org/sowc01/pdf/fullsowc.pdf USAID (2005) Afghanistan‚ http://www.usaid.gov/locations/asia_near_east/afghanistan/ CARE (2005) Afghanistan‚ www.care.org
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labor Several Nongovernmental Organizations (NGO) have been researching the crisis surrounding HIV/AIDS for some time now‚ their findings associated with the children left in the aftermath of this horrendous disease is staggering. According to a UNICEF report‚ “The HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa has already orphaned a generation of children—and now seems set to orphan generations more. Today‚ over 11 million children under the age of 15 living in sub-Saharan Africa have been
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In the past decade‚ significant developments have been made to expand access to preschool and primary education. The necessary laws for the promotion and protection of education are also in place. These include: the Barangay (Village) Day Care Center Law‚ which calls for the establishment of educational and day care centres in every village; the Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) Act‚ which mandates all villages to have day care centres and early learning institutions for children; and
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