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H&M and UNICEF Partnership
H&M has had a partnership with UNICEF since 2004 and has supported several UNICEF projects throughout the years. The projects have focused on education for girls, HIV/AIDS prevention in Cambodia and children’s rights in Uzbekistan. H&M has also contributed to UNICEF’s disaster relief work... More
Spanish artists help fight malnutrition among African refugees
MADRID, Spain, January 26 (UNHCR) – A close partner of the UN refugee agency has persuaded some of Spain's top artists to support an exhibition and online auction to raise money to tackle malnutrition among young refugees in four African countries.
The Spanish Committee for UNHCR, with the...
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UNFPA cooperates with private sector
Collaborating with the business sector is pursued in population programme activities where there are important linkages for example with social sector marketing in reproductive health and family planning. Social marketing activities are taking place in a number of countries, including Haiti,... More
UNCTAD enhancing the participation of women entrepreneurs in LDCs
UNCTAD conducts forum, which brought together experts from governments, non-governmental organizations and academia, as well representatives of women's and business associations and women entrepreneurs, examined the impact of recent multilateral trade agreements, women's relative inability to... More
L'Oréal and UNESCO’s For Women in Science programme
Within the framework of the UNESCO Co-Sponsored Fellowships Scheme, a joint programme has been launched with L’ORÉAL with a view to promoting the contribution of young women - from all over the world – in research developments in the field of life sciences. L’ORÉAL has renewed its generous offer of... More
UN, Google, Cisco unveil online resource
The United Nations, Google and Cisco unveiled a pioneering online site that tracks progress towards decreasing global poverty by 2015, a global campaign known as the Millennium Development Goals, or MDGs. More
Signature Partnerships: Check Out for Children™
Check Out For Children™ is an alliance between Starwood Hotels & Resorts and UNICEF. The Check Out For Children™ mechanism is incredibly simple yet effective. Upon arrival at a Starwood hotel, guests are advised they will be invited to add one US$1 (or local currency equivalent) to their bill... More
IKEA Social Initiative
For more than 10 years, IKEA has been a key partner, contributing to UNICEF’s work through strategic social investments, cause-related marketing promotions, sales of UNICEF Greeting Cards, in-kind assistance and national-level fundraising and promotional activities by IKEA customers and employees... More
World Economic Forum gives girls a voice on the global stage
The World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting programme featured its first-ever plenary session at which corporate, foundation, government and NGO leaders discussed the ability to end intergenerational cycles of poverty amongst females. More
2009 marks the fifth anniversary of the global Gucci/UNICEF
2009 marked the fifth anniversary of the global Gucci/UNICEF partnership, which began in 2005 when Gucci introduced the first annual Gucci Campaign to Benefit UNICEF. In this campaign, Gucci stores in over 20 countries donate a percentage of sales from a special group of products to support UNICEF... More