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UNICEF Pakistan works with the Ministry of Social Welfare and Special Education, Government of Pakistan, Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs, Provincial Social Welfare Departments, NGOs, and other UN agencies to protect children from abuse, exploitation, violence, and discrimination.
Pakistan participates in all of the UN's specialized agencies. These include: United Nations Development program (UNDP), the World Food Programme (WFP), the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), UN International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD ...
The United Nations Office at Geneva in Switzerland is the second biggest U.N. centre after the United Nations Headquarters in New York City.. United Nations specialized agencies are autonomous organizations working with the United Nations and each other through the co-ordinating machinery of the United Nations Economic and Social Council at the intergovernmental level, and through the Chief ...
Child labour in Pakistan is the employment of children to work in Pakistan, which causes them mental, physical, moral and social harm. Child labour takes away the education from children. [ 1 ] The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan estimated that in the 1990s, 11 million children were working in the country , half of whom were under age ten.
May 31, 2024 at 1:08 PM. ISLAMABAD (AP) — Developing resilient energy systems to power health facilities in Pakistan could avert over 175,000 deaths in the country by 2030, a new new study by ...
UNICEF regularly publishes to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) using the identifier XM-DAC-41122. [32] The organisation has been included assessed on its transparency by Publish What You Fund since 2012 and is included in the 2024 Aid Transparency Index [33] with an overall score of 86.2 which is categorised as a "very good ...
This is a list of UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors and advocates, who work on behalf of the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) for children's rights. UNICEF goodwill ambassadors are usually selected by regional and national UNICEF offices, the primary office at the United Nations building in New York is responsible for ...
8 August – Arshad Nadeem clinches Pakistan's first Olympic track and field medal after winning gold at the men's javelin throw at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. [ 100 ] 9 August – Three soldiers and four militants are killed in attacks on three army outposts in the Tirah Valley , Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, that are claimed by the Gul Bahadur ...