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The number of unaccompanied migrant minors staying in overcrowded reception centers on the Greek islands exceeds 1,100, the highest level since the peak of the refugee crisis in early 2016, UNICEF said Thursday, calling on European countries to do more to protect vulnerable children.

The Romanian government and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) signed an action plan for a 2018-2022 country programme, through Foreign Minister Teodor Melescanu, Minister of Labour and Social Justice Marius Budai, and UNICEF representative in Romania Pieter Bult. "Both the country program and the action plan we have signed today include three action guidelines.

169 million children worldwide have missed the first measles vaccine between 2010 and 2017. This was reported by UN Children's Fund Unicef. According to the World Health Organization, the epidemic is growing in Europe and the United States.

Global pop star Rita Ora visited her homeland of Kosovo on Wednesday for a humanitarian mission with the UN organisation Unicef, which she has been supporting since 2013.

Local media reported that she had visited Ferizaj/Urosevac and a Roma neighborhood in Fushe Kosove/ Kosovo Polje.

This shows a UN report, quoted by NOVA TV. 
A quarter of hospitals and health centers around the world do not have a main plumbing line and suffer from a lack of safe and clean water needed for patient care, BTA said, citing a UN report.

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has expressed concern over the world's measles epidemic and indicated that in ten countries, including Brazil, Ukraine and France, nearly three quarters of the increased number of people in 2018 registered.

In 2014, Sofia Tzitzikou represented the Hellenic National Committee for UNICEF on a trip to Chad. It was a dangerous journey that saw the mission's members accused of espionage by a local judge armed with an assault rifle. The matter was soon settled, but it was a terrifying experience nonetheless.

The United Nations children's agency on Friday announced its decision to terminate its relationship with UNICEF's Hellenic National Committee after an audit prompted by reports from top-level economic officials at the local branch of irregularities in its finances.

The United Nations children's agency UNICEF has terminated its arrangement with the Hellenic National Committee, established in Greece as an independent non-government organization, "due to concerns arising out of a recent independent audit."