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Elizabeth Kiem is the online producer for unicefusa.org.
This weekend, hundreds of innocent children became victims of sectarian violence in Nigeria. While more than 90 people have been arrested in connection to the massacre near Jos, it is feared that the killers may never come to justice. It is yet another instance of violence begetting violence with a great deal of help from impunity.

In Haiti, the rainy season is setting in, making rivers in the rubble. Last week, flooding south of the capital killed dozens. With more than a million people homeless and exposed to the elements, the support of the international community is just as crucial today as it was on January 12th.

Warning - you will be humming this melody all day long.

No, really - they're still humming it in space, where Lullaby, the new UNICEF anthem, was broadcast late last year,and where sound is notoriously long-lived but hard to hear.

Oxfam’s Country Programme Manager for Haiti, Yolette Etienne, explains how Oxfam is supplying water to thousands of earthquake survivors across camps in Port-au-Prince.

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This September, the United Nations will host the largest gathering of heads of state since the Millennium Summit in the year 2000. At their last Summit, 189 world leaders pledged to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, in order to eradicate extreme poverty and its root causes by the year 2015. The Goals represent a roadmap to finally wipe extreme poverty from the face of the earth once and for all. With just five years left until the deadline, the upcoming summit in September represents the international community’s last chance to develop breakthrough plans to achieve the Goals.

Oxfam’s Ian Bray explains why Oxfam can respond quickly and effectively to save lives in Haiti. And why your donation is so important.

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Twilight’s Ashley Greene just sent this email to ONE members giving them a sneak peak at the brand new PSA she helped create for ONE.

Last week, we announced that YouTube serves over one billion video views per day. It's a pretty staggering number, right? That's also the number of people in the world who don't have enough food to eat. According to the UN World Food Programme, for the first time in history, there are over one billion hungry people on Earth -- that's one in seven humans.

Today, on World Food Day, the World Food Programme (WFP) is showing how you, the estimated one billion internet users, can help the one billion people who live in hunger:

Through YouTube, charity:water was able to raise over $10,000 in one day — enough to build two brand-new wells in the Central African Republic and give over 150 people clean drinking water for 20 years.