Millions of children left behind as Eastern Europe develops
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The Christian Science Monitor - It&#39;s 10 o&#39;clock in the morning and Shkelten Daljani, a rambunctious boy of 14 in a tattered &quot;Route 66&quot; T-shirt, should be in school. But if he wants to eat, he has to help his father collect scrap metal to sell. The previous day, he says, there was no metal and no food.
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poor Balkan country, already struggling to stay on track in its drive to join the European Union. just three percent ahead of the centrist alliance of Liberal and Democrat parties.
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A rapidly growing youth movement in Romania is changing lives and preparing a new generation of young people to spread the Gospel.
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More than one billion children, half of the world's population of children, suffer from poverty, violent conflict and the scourge of AIDS, the United Nations Children's Fund said in its annual report.
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Marked divisions in children's well-being  in 21 industrialised countries are  highlighted in a Unicef report.
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More than half the world's children are suffering the effects of poverty, war and HIV/AIDS, denying them a healthy and safe childhood, UNICEF's annual report said Thursday.
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Romania and Bulgaria, left out of the European Union's historic expansion which this year brought in 10 new countries, are on track to join the bloc in 2007 but Croatia will have to wait, according to an EU ...
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The total number of eastern Europeans emigrating to Britain since 2004 has exceeded half a million, government figures have shown.
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More than 180 children trafficked illegally into the UK have since gone missing from social services care, according to a Unicef report.
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Orphanages in southern Africa are closing in favor of efforts to reintegrate children into communities.
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The most heart-rending scenes the world watched recently in aghast on television screen were the burial of hundreds of children beside their wailing parents, relatives and well-wishers in the North Ossetian region of the Russian Republic recently.
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PRAGUE, Nov 24 (IPS) - Millions in Eastern Europe remain convinced that  life was better for them before communism collapsed 15 years ago.
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Natural disasters around the world   last year disrupted the lives of millions of children, pushing   many into armed conflicts, prostitution, drug trafficking and   other dangerous occupations, according to a new U.S. government   report on child labor.
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Since Poland joined the E.U. in 2004, more than a million Poles, mainly young, have come to Britain, but a decline in Polish immigrants could be a bigger problem than a surplus.
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Children in Moldova are forced to grow up early as more and more parents move away for better jobs.
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Not enough is being done to prevent the trafficking of children in south-eastern Europe, a report says.
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Hundreds of thousands of Moldovans have left their country over the past decade in search of better lives.