UNICEF gopher

[Vladimir Vrabec]

Jak je videt z nasledujiciho, gopher si proklestil cestu i do UNICEF -- the
United Nations Children's Fund. Prislusny server "hqfaus01.unicef.org" ma tuto
hlavni stranku:

      1.  Welcome to UNICEF Gopher Service.
      2.  UN in General/
      3.  UNICEF in General/
      4.  UNICEF Public Documents/
      5.  The Convention on the Rights of the Child/
      6.  The World Summit for Children/
      7.  Other Gopher Servers/

                                                   Vladimir Vrabec
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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 1994 12:26:33 -0700
From: Arthur R. McGee <amcgee at NETCOM.COM>
To: Multiple recipients of list CARR-L <CARR-L at ulkyvm.bitnet>
Subject: 1811: UNICEF GOES INTERNET

                                                      ICEF/1811
                                                      21 June 1994

                             UNICEF GOES INTERNET

     NEW YORK, 21 June (UNICEF) -- the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
announces that it has begun disseminating its public information material on
the Internet, the world's largest amalgamation of computer networks.  A UNICEF
Internet "Gopher" now offers the full text of documents ranging from press
releases to major publications.  Internet users, estimated at 25 million
worldwide, can now access this service and retrieve information of interest to
them.

     The Internet offers an unprecedented opportunity to mobilize public
support for children, according to UNICEF Executive Director James P. Grant.
"The information superhighway is helping to create a virtual global village,
bringing us together and keeping us in touch with one another.  Computer
networking is one way to promote widely and effectively the interests of the
most vulnerable among us -- children.

     The UNICEF Gopher presents the full text of the Convention on the Rights
of the Child, which has been ratified by 160 countries since it was adopted by
the United Nations General Assembly in 1989.  Among other full texts available
are the Declaration, the Plan of Action and the Goals for Children for the
Year 2000 adopted by the World Summit for Children in 1990.

     At a press conference in Brussels this morning, UNICEF released the
second issue of its annual publication, The Progress of Nations, which ranks
countries according to their achievements in child development -- health,
nutrition, education, protection, and survival -- as well as family planning
and progress for women.  The Gopher offers the publication's full text.

     The Gopher also carries The State of the World's Children report, the
UNICEF annual flagship publication that analyses the global situation of
children and advocates what needs to be done for them.  Other items include
human interest features on programmes benefiting children in developing
countries, newsletter articles on children's issues, and information kits,
brochures and booklets advocating the rights and needs of children.

     The UNICEF Gopher can be accessed by telnet, logging in to host name
<hqfaus01.unicef.org> and typing user id <gopher>.  No password is required.
Using gopher client, the gopher server can be connected with the following
parameters:  Type=1, Port=70, Path=(blank) and Host=hqfaus01.unicef.org.

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