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Aug09

Children at the Rio+20 Corporate Sustainabilty Forum

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Two decades ago at the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, 12-year-old Severn Suzuki reminded world leaders: “Do not forget why you are attending these conferences, who you are doing this for—we are your own children. You are deciding what kind of a world we will grow up in.”
The follow-up to the Earth Summit, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) took place in Brazil on June 20-22, 2012. Children’s rights truly came of age in Rio and were featured prominently through both a dedicated session at the Corporate Sustainability Forum and the Forum’s own outcome document.

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Apr05

The 2012 UNICEF Tap Project—Celebrating another successful year

© Norry Niven | Particiapants from the Dallas Water Walk.

March 25 marked the end of World Water Week as well as the sixth year of another very successful UNICEF Tap Project campaign. The UNICEF Tap Project is a dynamic movement that affords everyone the opportunity to help provide the world’s children with clean, safe water through a number of fundraising and volunteer activities. This award-winning campaign celebrates the clean water we enjoy for free on a daily basis by encouraging supporters to help UNICEF provide this vital resource to children in developing countries.

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Mar27

Walking for Water

© Norry Niven | Celebrating after successfully completing the water walk!

Dallas hosted its first Water Walk on Saturday, March 3, 2012. This Tap Project community event sought to raise awareness of and support for the world water crisis. Children and their parents raised more than $7,000 to support this year’s Tap Project beneficiaries—Togo, Vietnam, Mauritania, and Cameroon.

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Mar23

Charting the end game for blinding trachoma

© Mark Tuschman for ITI | Face-washing is a critical part of the SAFE strategy to eliminate blinding trachoma, a preventable disease that affects mostly women and children.

Blinding trachoma, the world’s leading cause of preventable blindness, brings extraordinary human suffering and economic devastation to tens of millions of people, mostly to women and children in poorer countries. A new global strategic plan— 2020 INSight—created by an international coalition of partners lays out specific actions to take and milestones to meet that could lead to elimination of blinding trachoma by the year 2020.

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Mar20

The UNICEF Tap Project welcomes back National Sponsor Giorgio Armani Fragrances

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For the third year, Giorgio Armani Fragrances returns as the National Sponsor of the UNICEF Tap Project. The company is again conducting its “Acqua for Life” campaign, launched in 2010, which provides a number of ways for people across the country to join the company in raising funds to support UNICEF’s water, sanitation and hygiene programs for children this March.

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Mar16

Selena Gomez: UNICEF Tap Project 2012

Photo: © Jane Hahn/2009 | Selena Gomez during a visit to Ghana with UNICEF in 2009

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