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#DataPrivacyDay. Reflect on how you use social networks. Navigate safely, especially our young followers!

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#PhotoOfTheWeek - #Haiti - 12 January marks the two-year anniversary (#haiti2year) of the earthquake that killed some 220,000 Haitians, displaced more than 1.6 million and destroyed vital infrastructure. Progress since the quake has been substantial, including for children. But, Haiti remains a fragile and impoverished state that continues to need international assistance. A girl stands outside a school in the mountainside village of Pyechal.

Haiti, 2011 ©UNICEF/NYHQ2011-2056/Dormino

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Can You See Me? #SierraLeone: Leila [NAME CHANGED] was sexually abused by an older man in her home village and is now pregnant. She lives with her sister in Kailahun District. “I don’t feel good about being pregnant because I’m just a small girl,” Leila said. She has dropped out of school but hopes to return and study nursing. Sierra Leone has the world’s highest maternal mortality rate, in part due to inadequate protection or maternal care for girls and women.

Sierra Leone, 2011: © UNICEF/NYHQ2011-0730/Asselin

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#PhotoOfTheWeek: In late 2011, the world’s population reached #7billion. Every newborn child has the right to a standard of living adequate for her or his physical, mental, spiritual, moral and social development. Ensuring that the youngest among us achieve that right is the surest path to a truly sustainable world. An infant cries in an incubator at a UNICEF-supported hospital in Chisinau.

Moldova, 2004©UNICEF/NYHQ2004-1406/Pirozzi

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CAN YOU SEE ME? #Romania - Alisia’s foster brother, Andre, helps her on the stairway of their apartment building, in the town of Spoloziia. Alisia is one of seven children; her parents could not afford to care for her and placed her in an institution until Andre’s mother, Nicoletta, became her foster parent. Institutional care for children under 3 years old is known to damage their mental and emotional development.

Romania, 2011: © UNICEF/NYHQ2011-1132/Holt

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#PhotoOfTheWeek: UNICEF photography advocates for the world’s most vulnerable children, offering visual evidence in support of children’s rights. UNICEF’s newest photography essay, ‘2011 in photographs’, narrates the year’s story of these rights - violated by poverty, conflict and climate change but also advanced through political openings and improved services. Children in the Central African Republic are reflected, amid clouds, in a pool of water.

©UNICEF/Jan Grarup

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#PhotoOfTheWeek: (Background) Seeba cries, worried for the health of her newborn, who is held by another inmate in the Kabul Female Prison and Detention Center. Seeba is serving a five-year sentence for allegedly having an affair. Over half of the Center’s inmates were detained for ‘moral crimes’, including running away. Afghan girls and women continue to face entrenched gender discrimination, forced marriage and domestic abuse.

Afghanistan, 2010 ©UNICEF/NYHQ2010-1890/Brooks

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#PhotoOfTheWeek: An 8-year-old Nigerian boy stands with other prisoners, in the port city of Hodeidah. He was arrested for illegal entry into Yemen. After three months, UNICEF and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees advocated his release, and he has since returned to Nigeria. On 10 December, Human Rights Day commemorated the sixty-third anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which includes “the right to life, liberty and security of person.”

Yemen, 2010 ©UNICEF/NYHQ2010-2854/Stirton

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Can you see me?: #Bangladesh - Komali [NAME CHANGED] is 17. She left school after the seventh grade to help support her family. A young man took her to a brothel in the village of Bania Shanta, where, initially, she assisted the ‘madam’ with chores. For the last three years, Komali has been a sex worker there. An estimated 350 of Bania Shanta’s 700 residents are sex workers, and the villag...e’s brothels are considered high risk for HIV transmission.

Bangladesh, 2009: © UNICEF/NYHQ2009-2583/Noorani

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PHOTO: #Philippines, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and British football legend David Beckham visits ‘Village for Youth’, a UNICEF-assisted government centre for children who have lived or worked on the streets. “They are exposed to so many threats and dangers and are missing out on the basics in life – having people around who love and guide them,” Mr. Beckham said. An estimated 250,000 Filipino children still live or work on the streets.

© UNICEF/ Veejay Villafranca

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#PhotoOfTheWeek: Children gather on a truck bed near the village of San Juan del Carmen. All children now attend school, but many also work part-time with their parents, who are labourers in the dangerous sugar cane industry. The Convention on the Rights of the Child expresses in international law the rights due every child. Article 32 recognizes “the right of the child to be protected from . . . performing any work that is likely to be hazardous.”

Bolivia, 2011 ©UNICEF/NYHQ2011-1474/Friedman-Rudovsky

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#PhotoOfTheWeek: In June, adolescent boys swam in the coastal waters of rebel-occupied Benghazi, waiting for the civil war to end. Since the defeat of the former Government’s forces, UNICEF has been supporting initiatives to restore access to safe water and schools, to warn children about mines and other unexploded ordinance and to provide psychosocial support for children recovering from war-related trauma.

Libya, 2011 ©UNICEF/NYHQ2011-0960/Ramoneda

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Safe water is life - Photo 5 - #Ethiopia - In the midst of an extended #drought, insufficient safe #water is just one of the threats to children’s right to survive and thrive. Villagers wait for a water delivery in Borena. Drought in the Horn of Africa continues to take its toll on some 4.8 million Ethiopians, though the rains have begun to ease conditions. In drought-affected Borena Zone, UNICEF supports the Government and other partners’ efforts to provide safe water and improved sanitation.

Ethiopia, 2011 © UNICEF/NYHQ2011-1563/Lemma

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