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Clé de Peau Beauté announces multi-year global partnership with UNICEF

Clé de Peau Beauté, the luxury skincare and makeup brand of Tokyo-based Shiseido Company Limited, has on International Day of the Girl, pledged the world’s largest contribution of US$8.7 million to support UNICEF’s Gender Equality Program.

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UNICEF launches Cryptocurrency Fund

UNICEF will now be able to receive, hold and disburse donations of cryptocurrencies ether and bitcoin, through its newly-established UNICEF Cryptocurrency Fund. In a first for United Nations organizations, UNICEF will use cryptocurrencies to fund open...

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‘Dangerous nationalism’ seriously threatens efforts to tackle statelessness: UNHCR chief

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The Kutupalong-Balukhali camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, is home to more than 600,000...

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Historic first, as Tolstoy’s War and Peace lands in Geneva, to mark international centenary

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Nadezhda Petrova (centre), Vice-Director of the Tolstoy Museum in Moscow shows an attache...

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