Unicef Report Says Children in Deprivation Reach a Billion
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over half the children in the world - suffer extreme deprivation because of war, HIV/AIDS or poverty, according to a report released yesterday by the United Nations Children&#39;s Fund.
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A report by a kids&#39; group says more than half of the children in the world are suffering because of the effects of war, poverty and the HIV virus.
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About 9.7 million children die each year before their fifth birthday, mostly from diseases that could be prevented with simple, affordable measures, the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday.
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Millions of children go without formal education in former Soviet countries, a Unicef report claims.
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Hunger and malnutrition are killing more than five million children a year, with Africa bearing the brunt in human lives, and costing developing nations billions of dollars in lost productivity, according to the UN food agency's annual hunger report.
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Despite the near universal embrace of standards for protecting childhood, a new UNICEF report shows that more than half the world&#39;s children are suffering extreme deprivations from poverty, war and HIV/AIDS, conditions that are effectively denying
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More than 500 million people can  be lifted out of abject poverty, 250 million people will no  longer go to bed hungry and 30 million children can be saved if  rich countries double development aid over the next 10 years, a  new U.N.-sponsored report said Monday.
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More than half the world's children face a brutal existence because of poverty, war and Aids, says Unicef.
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Children from poorer homes are up to a year behind their more privileged peers by the age of three.
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The United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF said it was counselling more than 100,000 children who were traumatised by the death of relatives in the tsunami-hit southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
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India has higher levels of  malnourished children than Sub-Saharan Africa, despite the  Asian giant having more funds and better infrastructure to  tackle the problem, the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on  Wednesday.
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Malnutrition has increased among children in Darfur over the past year despite a massive humanitarian aid effort in the war-torn Sudanese region, according to a U.N. report obtained Thursday.
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The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned that the number of young Iraqi children suffering from acute malnutrition has nearly doubled since the March 2003 invasion, as health and living conditions have deteriorated.
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Millions of children live in poverty in Eastern Europe and Central Asia despite economic growth, a UN report says.
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Nearly 9.7 million children die each year before their fifth birthday from diseases from pneumonia to malaria, but simple affordable measures could save more lives, the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday.
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PRETORIA -- More than 1 billion children suffer from poverty, war, and HIV/AIDS, a new UNICEF report says, indicating that gains in reducing child deaths in the 1980s and '90s have stalled in the past decade.
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Lack of food and education still afflict millions of children around the world, with nearly 10 million youngsters under age 5 dying each year from preventable diseases, the U.N. children's agency said Sunday.