Monthly Archives: February 2010

Sad Day for Human Rights in New Zealand

By UNICEF NZ, Published: February 26, 2010
The age of criminality for children in New Zealand for crimes other that murder or manslaughter has been reduced from 14 to 12. This means that 12 year olds will now face criminal prosecution whereas in the past, they were handled by the family court. All the evidence shows that diverting children away from criminal [...]
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Three vaccines to save twins – Haiti Blog

By UNICEF NZ, Published: February 23, 2010
Blog story from Yolanda Romero Torrecilla, UNICEF communications specialist currently in Haiti. Sandrine and Sandra are twins, peaceful in their mother’s arms. Each has just been vaccinated against diphtheria, tetanus and pertusis (DPT) in an encampment set up on the patches of grass and dirt of the Adventist University of Haiti in Port-au-Prince. UNICEF, with [...]
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‘Bon tans, Move tans’ – a story from Haiti

By UNICEF NZ, Published: February 22, 2010
Blog story from Yolanda Romero Torrecilla, UNICEF communications specialist currently in Haiti. There’s a poster hanging on a string under the tent of the Place de Saline, in Port-au-Prince’s Champ de Mars neighbourhood. Its slogan is in Creole, the language of Haitians. It reads, Bon tans, Move tans, meaning “Good times, Bad times.” The phrase [...]
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Back to Canada from Haiti

By UNICEF NZ, Published: February 18, 2010
Last Blog report from Chris Tidey – UNICEF Communications Specialist in Port-au-Prince. After two days of travel, including a night in the Dominican Republic, I have finally returned to Canada from Haiti. As the plane touched down late last night in Toronto, I wished that I had not left Port-au-Prince. I wished that I could [...]
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Banging the Drum

By UNICEF NZ, Published: February 17, 2010
Did you know that the Global Economic Crisis is predicted to hit the Pacific Islands hard this year? That none of the Pacific Islands that are classified by the UN as Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are on track to meet the Millennium Development Goals? And that as the recession hits and remittances reduce, export [...]
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