I was a BBC correspondent for more than 30 years in the world’s unquiet corners. I am now a UNICEF ambassador in some of the same places - and others. One thing I know for sure is that in all these crises it is the children who suffer most. They...
Do you know London very well? If you get around on the tube you might have that odd disconnected feeling of knowing particular places in the city, but not where they are in relation to other places. Your cognitive map has as many holes as a piece of Swiss...
This year’s Lib Dem Conference was in Liverpool and it was the biggest ever with at least 2,000 more people than in previous years (and more of them in suits!), due I guess to the Lib Dems now being in power - it was buzzing! Our first UNICEF UK...
One of the many perks of being a young climate volunteer is that you get to explore every corner of the UK; from Newcastle, to Wales and the ins and outs of the London underground. Yesterday, I travelled up to Liverpool to take part in one of the fringe...
A boy drinks from a small pool that is the sole water source for the Bulla Maki settlement in Kenya. © UNICEF/NYHQ2006-0177/Kamber This week, as the UN hosts a high level summit on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the international spotlight...
UNICEF UK’s Andy Brown visited the town of San Pedro in the
Philippines, following the 2009 typhoon and floods. He went back in 2010
to see how
the situation had improved. This is an account of his second visit.
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