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Speak up success: what we achieved in 2012

Natasha Adams, Fri, Mar 8 2013 2:03 PM



Climate change is an issue I’ve always wanted to campaign on - it is such an obvious problem which threatens the future of our (and many other) species. Campaigning can generate the political will needed to take meaningful action to halt runaway climate change, and to protect people already suffering from its effects.

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Young at heart

Hayley Cull, Wed, Feb 27 2013 5:08 PM

Hands up if you remember Tagd? Our youth website was launched back in 2009, aimed at young people who are passionate about global and UK issues such as climate change, child poverty, HIV and children's rights. Tagd was full of ways to take action, whether by campaigning, fundraising or spreading the word about UNICEF's work for children.

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Child hunger: Faltouma and Toma's story

Jessica Mony, Wed, Jan 16 2013 3:01 PM

In October 2012, UNICEF UK's Jess Mony visited families in Chad, west Africa, to see for herself how the food shortage was affecting children. 

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Beyond Doha: Making progress for children in 2013

Jazmin Burgess, Wed, Dec 12 2012 3:27 PM

As the dust settles after the Doha climate talks, one of the most contentious issues of the whole talks was the mobilisation of long term climate finance- financial flows from developed countries to developing countries to help them cope with the growing impacts of climate change and embark on a low carbon path to development.

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Elias's Story - why we must make the G8 count for children

Anne Callaghan, Thu, Dec 6 2012 2:44 PM

Next year, UNICEF UK is joining other organisations to call for a fairer food system ahead of the G8 leaders meeting in the UK in June. One in eight people in the world wake up to hunger. However, there is enough food in the world to feed everyone - what's lacking is the political will to change things. 

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Why I visited my MP to Speak up for Children

Joanna Bracken, Fri, Nov 30 2012 12:43 PM

I recently met my MP, Stephen Williams of Bristol West, on behalf of UNICEF UK. I wanted to discuss UNICEF UK's Speak Up for Children campaign with Stephen and persuade him to contact Ed Davey, the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, in support of the Green Climate Fund.

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My day out with UNICEF UK

Guest Blogger, Wed, Nov 28 2012 2:03 PM

Global warming is something we hear so often that our ears have become accustomed to it. However global warming is a reality, and unless we all play our part to mitigate the effects, then not only will it affect us, it will also have a severe impact on the generations to come. Which personally I think is quite sad, because they would have to suffer for our selfish actions.

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Championing children

Natasha Adams, Fri, Oct 26 2012 12:44 PM

We thought that we could make better headway campaigning for children if supporters got more involved and actually took our messages to MPs directly by becoming Children's Champions. When I organised training in September and sent an email invite to our campaigners, I was unsure how it would go as we'd never done anything like this before. But I was overwhelmed with the response. We had over 200 replies for just 35 training spaces!

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Working at UNICEF: Speaking up for children's rights

Anne Callaghan, Fri, Oct 26 2012 12:39 PM


Anne Callaghan, Public Affairs Campaign Manager, talks about her experiences as a member of the UNICEF UK family.

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Harry Phinda's speech at the Labour Party Conference 2012

Harry Phinda, Wed, Oct 3 2012 11:07 AM

 

Harry Phinda is one of two Youth Advisors to our Board of Trustees, a role where young people actively take part in the governance issues of UNICEF UK. He delivered this speech to the Labour Party Conference in Manchester 2012.

 

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Party Conferences, here we come

Gavin Crowden, Fri, Sep 21 2012 2:57 PM

This will be my first conference season – in my previous life working in government I was specifically banned from attending them. So I am pretty excited about it. Really. 

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Children’s Champions network launches!

Natasha Adams, Fri, Sep 21 2012 10:47 AM


I'm really excited because tomorrow we're launching our new Children's Champions network with a day of training. All the places were snapped up quickly, but the good news is all those not coming can still get involved online.

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Speak Up for Children: fighting climate change at WOMAD festival

Rose Virden, Mon, Jul 16 2012 3:36 PM

I’m really looking forward to next week - UNICEF UK and our team of volunteer campaigners are going to WOMAD festival! We’ll be spreading the word about UNICEF UK’s Speak Up for Children campaign, which calls on the UK Government to commit new money to the Green Climate Fund - an international pot of money that could protect millions of children from climate change now and in the future.

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Living below the line: 5 cans of soup and a loaf of bread

Michael Charouneau, Fri, Feb 24 2012 3:29 PM
This year, UNICEF has joined the Live Below the Line campaign, a global event created to highlight child poverty. It challenges people to live on £1 of food a day, for five days. Why £5 for the week? It’s simple: the World Bank defines...

Getting Climate Ready with Chris Huhne

Frances Bernhardt, Fri, Oct 21 2011 10:17 AM

On Wednesday, UNICEF UK handed in its Get Children Climate Ready campaign petition to the Climate Change Secretary Chris Huhne, at the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC). UNICEF UK supporter Fran Bernhardt was there. 

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