UN: Child soldiers used in 13 countries
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The situation for children caught in conflict remains "grave and entirely unacceptable" because 58 groups in 13 countries still recruit and use child soldiers, according to a senior U.N. official.
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More than 13,000 people were killed in countries across South and Southeast Asia, with thousands more missing or unreachable.
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Child soldiers who fought during  Liberia's 14-year civil war may be being recruited to fight  again as mercenaries in neighboring Guinea, a senior U.N.  official said.
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Political leaders the world over are  failing the most vulnerable of their people -- children, the  U.N. child rights organization UNICEF said on Thursday.
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More than half the world&#39;s children are suffering extreme effects of poverty, war and HIV/Aids, denying them a healthy and safe childhood, according to a report published today.
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Â· 31 children worldwide rescued, 15 in BritainÂ· Film files seized include babies being raped
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Child soldiers who fought during Liberia's 14-year civil war may be being recruited to fight again as mercenaries in neighboring Guinea, a senior U.N. official said.
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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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Â· 'Disturbing trend' to exploit children in Iraq  Â· Coalition forces admit holding 600 juveniles
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Sexual abuse of girls by U.N. peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was widespread and ongoing despite many revelations and probes, the U.N. watchdog agency reported on Friday.
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The case of the youngest detainee at GuantÃ¡namo Bay has implications as large as the growing ranks of child soldiers worldwide.
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More than half the world&#39;s children are denied their childhood as a result of HIV/AIDS, poverty and war according to the State of the World Children&#39;s report 2005 launched in Suva today.
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A human rights group urges the UN to take recruiters of child soldiers to the International Criminal Court.
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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.
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ONE in 12 children worldwide died before their fifth birthday, with half of all such deaths in sub-Saharan Africa, the United Nations reported yesterday in its annual survey of infant mortality.
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The United Nations has  documented 13 incidents of illegal weapons in southern Lebanon  since early September, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said  on Friday, calling Beirut's border monitoring deficient.
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UNITED NATIONS -- The UN is investigating about 150 allegations of sexual abuse by UN civilian staff members and soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with some evidence recorded on videotape, a senior UN official said yesterday. The accusations include pedophilia and rape, said Jane Holl Lute, an assistant secretary general in the peacekeeping department. Lute said that there ...