UN Fears Gangs May Traffick in Tsunami Children
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The United Nations said on Tuesday it  was concerned children orphaned or separated from their parents  by Asia's tsunami may be falling prey to criminal gangs bent on  selling them into slavery.
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The United Nations Children&#39;s Fund released its annual report that showed that at least one billion children, half of the world&#39;s population of children, suffer from poverty, violent conflict and the scourge of AIDS.
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Unrest in Haiti may force the United  Nations to divert ships carrying food for flood victims to the  Dominican Republic, where the aid can be put on trucks, a U.N.  spokesman said on Tuesday.
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ROME - Extreme poverty threatens the lives of more than a billion children around the world, according to a report from the United Nations children&#39;s agency.
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Children displaced, often orphaned, by tsunami, earthquakes and other disasters made last year a particularly sordid one for their exploitation as cheap labor or sexual victims, the government said Wednesday.
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The International Organization for Migration (IOM) expressed alarm on Thursday over rising cases of trade in human organs in Asia, and said globalization had increased risks of human trafficking.
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The victims of the Asian tsunami now face a new danger - that of criminals and opportunists trying to cash in on their misfortune.
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The United Nations World Food Program says malnutrition was spreading at an alarming rate in Sri Lanka's Tamil rebel-held regions with nearly one in five children suffering stunted growth.
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The United Nations intends to step up security in Haiti in an effort to crack down on gangs that are "kidnapping and terrorizing ordinary people," the U.N. chief in Haiti said Monday.
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The UN highlights the plight of children orphaned by the tsunami disaster, some of whose lives are at risk.
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Millions of people will be at risk of disease unless there is immediate action to provide clean water in communities hit by tidal waves in South Asia, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned.
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Towns burn as criminal gangs go on rampage as crisis deepens despite intervention of Annan
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WASHINGTON -- The youngest victims of the Asian tsunami waves may be homeless, traumatized, and possibly orphaned, but they are not yet candidates for adoption in the United States, the State Department said yesterday.
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Ten young children are taken into care and 25 people held in raids targeting suspected gangs and child trafficking.
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The United Nations warned on Monday of  epidemics within days unless health systems in south and  southeast Asia can cope after some 12,000 people were killed  and tens of thousands left homeless by giant tsunami waves.
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Fears that the Indian Ocean tsunami  could unleash epidemics which would double the death toll are  fading as access to clean water improves, the World Health  Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.
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LONDON, Dec 10 (IPS) - Poverty, conflict and HIV/AIDS are the biggest  threats to children's lives in developing countries, says a  new Unicef report.