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	April 17, 2012 | News covering the UN and the world Sign up  |  E-Mail this  |  Donate Aid is helping to save 4 million children annually Over the past 20 years, humanitarian aid along with economic growth and good government have combined to help 4 million more children each year to live beyond their fifth birthdays, according to a report for UNICEF and Save the Children. "Where funding gaps exist, for example for primary education or child health, aid can make all the difference," said Justin Forsyth, head of Save the Children. BBC (4/16)      New Council sanctions for North Korea  Kim wins vote for top World Bank job  How school can help curb early pregnancy  Understanding the energy challenge  Kony campaign heats up, but progress is slow  Career Center  Skip to a section:  United Nations | Health & Development | Women & Girls | Climate and Energy | Peacekeeping and Security Check out @unwomen's Michelle Bachelet's #cookstoves mention in her keynote speech at the EU Summit on @sgenergyforall http://ht.ly/akHzV" @cookstoves "Today is A Day Without Dignity, the aid blogosphere's answer to TOMS A Day Without Shoes. With so many discussions devoted to bad advocacy or 'badvocacy' in aid and human rights activism recently, it's important to highlight examples of good advocacy and NGO public relations productions. After all, it's difficult to improve anything without positive examples. The following videos from NGOs working in Afghanistan hit the right notes." UN Dispatch New Council sanctions for North Korea The willingness by China to join in the Security Council's condemnation Monday of North Korea's failed rocket-launch could indicate that the emerging power is increasing pressure, however incrementally, on its neighbor. The UN body said it would add "additional entities and items" to a sanctions list within 15 days, while the secretive Pyongyang government said it would not allow the International Atomic Energy Agency to inspect its nuclear program. Los Angeles Times/World Now blog (tiered subscription model) (4/16), ForeignPolicy.com/Turtle Bay blog (4/16), The Wall Street Journal/Agence France-Presse (4/16)        Creeping violence threatens cease-fire in Syria The uneasy five-day-old truce in Syria appeared to be in danger of unraveling after government forces resumed bombardment of several cities Monday, reportedly killing at least 40 people. Susan Rice, U.S. ambassador to the UN, said the spike in violence raised questions about the efficacy of the deployment of 25 more monitors from the world body, and potentially up to 250, as part of a peacekeeping mission. The Wall Street Journal (4/16), Los Angeles Times/World Now blog (tiered subscription model) (4/16)      Other News Governments are criticized for thwarting UNESCO plan to protect journalists The Huffington Post/Committee to Protect Journalists (4/16)      Former UNCTAD staffers fear rich-world stifling of work The Guardian (London)/Poverty Matters blog (4/16)      UN peacekeepers are set to withdraw from East Timor after elections The Washington Post/The Associated Press (4/16)      Kim wins vote for top World Bank job U.S. nominee Dr. Jim Yong Kim, a public health expert, president of Dartmouth College and a founder of Partners In Health, was named Monday as the next president of the World Bank. The vote came after a challenge by developing-world candidates, most prominently from Nigeria's finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. The New York Times (tiered subscription model) (4/16), BBC (4/16)      Other News Nationwide Haiti vaccination campaign to target imported diseases The Washington Post/The Associated Press (4/17)      How school can help curb early pregnancy Education is known to be a key for reining in population growth, and in Africa experts agree that means keeping girls in high school. The higher level of schooling gives girls the ability to enter the workforce rather than be left to conceive babies at a young age. "If you educate girls to the secondary level, then exposure to pregnancy doesn't happen until they are mature and can make choices," said Babatunde Osotimehin, executive director of the United Nations Population Fund. The New York Times (tiered subscription model)/Green blog (4/16)      Girl Effect promotes reporting for Rwandan girls Jessica Mendoza, a softball analyst for ESPN, chronicles a recent visit to Rwanda in an effort to empower impoverished girls through journalism as part of the Girl Effect project, created in part by the United Nations Foundation. "One of the biggest shocks for me was seeing how many times the students were denied interviews, or the resistance they met when they wanted to photograph locals. A common question was, 'How will this help me?' " she writes in a blog. ESPN.com/ESPNW (4/16)        Understanding the energy challenge In developing countries, "energy poverty" is a roadblock to growth, while developed countries are facing the challenges posed by pollution and inefficiencies, writes Kandeh K. Yumkella, director-general of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization. "Achieving sustainable energy for all will require an investment in our collective future -- an investment that will pay off by improving lives, growing businesses, creating new markets and generating jobs," he writes. Devex.com (4/17)        6 countries vie to host Green Climate Fund The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change has announced that it will consider next month the candidacies of six countries -- Germany, Mexico, Namibia, Poland, South Korea and Switzerland -- competing to host the Green Climate Fund, which last year was launched to steer up to $100 billion in aid annually to poor, vulnerable countries by 2020. The eventual nominee would need to be approved at UN climate talks this year in Qatar. AlertNet/Reuters (4/16)      Other News Kenyan activist nets award for work over Ethiopia dam BBC (4/16)      Glencore is linked to child labor, acid dumping in DR Congo The Guardian (London) (4/14)      Kony campaign heats up, but progress is slow The presence over the past several months of U.S. military advisers in the Central African Republic is apparently doing little to discourage the Lord's Resistance Army, which, under leader Joseph Kony, is continuing to commit abuses in central Africa, including the Democratic Republic of Congo. On Friday, the Kony 2012 campaign by U.S. charity Invisible Children -- whose video on Kony has been viewed nearly 90 million times on YouTube -- hopes people will plaster the world's cities with images urging governments to help capture the warlord. The Washington Post (4/16), The Guardian (London)/Reality Check with Polly Curtis (4/17)      Other News U.S.-China war games aim to stave off cyberattacks Mail Guardian Online (South Africa) (4/17)      Commentary: What threatens press freedom in Africa The New York Times (tiered subscription model) (4/15)      Position Title Company Name Location Senior Business Development Officer International Rescue Committee New York, NY Senior Partnership Advisor International Rescue Committee New York, NY Program Manager, Standards and Testing, Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves United Nations Foundation Washington, DC Click here to view more job listings.   Get more involved: Follow the UN Foundation on Twitter Key Sites United Nations Secretary-General UN News Centre Key UN Bodies, Agencies, Funds and Programs UN Foundation UN Dispatch The Interdependent UN Radio News Service UN mission concerned about aerial bomb attacks in South Sudan UN Radio   This SmartBrief was created for eleccion@yahoogroups.com   Subscriber Tools       Update account information | Change e-mail address | Unsubscribe | Print friendly format | Web version | Search past news | Archive | Privacy policy Grab our News Widget Advertise With Us Amy DiElsi Director for UN Foundation Communications United Nations Foundation 1800 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Suite 400 Washington, DC 20036 (D) 202-419-3230 (C) 202-492-3078 (F) 202-887-9021 www.unfoundation.org   About UN WIRE UN Wire is a free service sponsored by the United Nations Foundation which is dedicated to supporting the United Nations' efforts to address the most pressing humanitarian, socioeconomic and environmental challenges facing the world today. 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