Hong Kong (29 June 2012) –Cathay Pacific Airways and the Hong Kong Committee for UNICEF (UNICEF HK) today announced that more than HK$12.9 million was raised through “Change for Good”, the airline’s inflight fundraising programme, in the 2011 programme period. Since the programme was launched in 1991, more than HK$120 million has been donated by […]
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Child Survival Call to Action summit closes with commitment to eliminate preventable child deaths
WASHINGTON, D.C., USA/ HONG KONG, 16 June 2012 –Worldwide, under-5 mortality has declined from more than 12 million deaths in 1990 to 7.6 million in 2010 – yet thousands of children still die every day from preventable diseases. On 14-15 June 2012, the Governments of Ethiopia, India and the United States, together with UNICEF, convened […]
Statement attributable to Anthony Lake, UNICEF Executive Director on killings of children in Syria
NEW YORK/ HONG KONG, 09 JUNE 2012 – “How many more children need to die? Repeated calls for the protection of children by all parties in Syria have not yielded positive action. But we must voice again our outrage when seeing the murder of innocents, especially children and women, as reportedly the case in Al-Qubair […]