In looking ahead to whether or not President Barack Obama will nominate a new leader for UNICEF, a Lancet comment reflects on Executive Director Ann Veneman's first term at the agency, which began in 2005. Full Article at Medical News Today

UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- The "unspeakable violations" that happen almost everyday to children all across the globe need to be a thing of the past, chief of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Ann Veneman said here on... Full Article at Xinhua

UNITED NATIONS - -- Twenty years after the United Nations adopted a treaty guaranteeing children's rights, 1 billion children are still deprived of food, shelter or clean water, and nearly 200 million are chronically malnourished, UNICEF said Thursday. Full Article at Chicago Tribune

Discrimination against female children is a serious problem around the world and it must be addressed by the international community, chief of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Ann Veneman said Thursday. Full Article at People's Daily Online

UNICEF Executive Director Ann Veneman called a sharp decline in child deaths a "remarkable achievement," and lauded the increasing number of children attending primary school. Full Article at Macleans.ca

UNITED NATIONS—UNICEF urged the world to help the 1 billion children still deprived of food, shelter, clean water or health care -- and the hundreds of millions more threatened by violence -- two decades after the U.N. adopted a treaty guaranteeing... Full Article at Boston Globe

UNICEF Executive Director Ann Veneman said the convention "has transformed the way children are viewed and treated throughout the world." Full Article at Macleans.ca

UNITED NATIONS -- Twenty years after the U.N. adopted a treaty guaranteeing children's rights, 1 billion children are still deprived of food, shelter or clean water, and nearly 200 million are chronically malnourished, UNICEF said Thursday. Full Article at Chicago Sun-Times

The convention has the widest support of any human rights treaty, with ratifications legally binding 193 countries to its provisions. Full Article at The Bellingham Herald

The U.N. Children's Fund says 8.8 million children under age five die from largely preventable causes every year. Full Article at Voice of America

Ann Veneman, UNICEF's executive director, says the causes of undernutrition must be addressed. Full Article at CNN

Undernourished children often have poor physical health and slower mental development. Full Article at Independent Online

A report out today from the United Nations Children's Fund links poor nutrition to a third of all child deaths under the age of 5. Jeff Tyler reports that hunger is, in theory, one of those problems that money could easily solve. Full Article at Marketplace

Ann Veneman, the head of Unicef said this was a ‘tragedy.’ ‘Inexpensive and effective treatments for diarrhea exist, but in developing countries only 39 percent of children with diarrhea receive the recommended treatment,’ Veneman said. Full Article at Matthew Yglesias

Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay: Each year, diarrhea kills 1.5 million children under the age of 5, even though there are inexpensive and effective treatments available for this common... Full Article at KLAS - Las Vegas Now

The number of children in the developing world dying of diarrhoea outpaces the combined youth fatalities from AIDS, malaria and measles, according to research done by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the UN Children's Fund (Unicef). Full Article at New Kerala

DIARROHOEA still claims the lives of 1.5 million children under the age of five a year, UN agencies warned today, as they launched a new campaign against the ailment. Full Article at The Daily Telegraph

UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- Millions of children worldwide are subject to trafficking, abuse, violence, child labor and other mistreatment, a U.N. report released Tuesday indicated. Full Article at United Press International

UNITED NATIONS -- The U.N. children's agency says the death rate for children under the age of 5 is continuing to decline. Ann Veneman, UNICEF's executive director, says that compared to 1990, 10,000 fewer children are dying every day. Full Article at The State