Unicef report: 1bn children suffering
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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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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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A joint statement issued by the World Food Program and the UN Children&#39;s Fund says that without intervention, 1 million children face malnourishment within eight weeks.
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GALLE, Sri Lanka As many as half the victims of South Asia&#39;s quake and waves are believed to be children. And an official of the UN Children&#39;s Fund says the concern now is that children who survived the tsunamis may be at severe risk from their aftermath.
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One billion people in tropical countries are still suffering from debilitating and disfiguring diseases associated with poverty, but many remain untreated due to official neglect, health officials said on Wednesday.
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The United Nations children&#39;s fund says that more than half the world&#39;s children are suffering the effects of poverty, war and HIV/AIDS, denying them a healthy and safe childhood.
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Children are likely to be undernourished in households where women are denied a voice in family decisions like doctor visits, food expenditures and trips to see friends and relatives, says a report by the U.N. Children's Fund, UNICEF, released on Monday.
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The head of UNICEF says some 10,000 people, or a third of those who died in Sri Lanka, were children.
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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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More than one billion children around the world face a brutal existence because of poverty, war and Aids, the UN children&#39;s agency reports.
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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 UN highlights the plight of children orphaned by the tsunami disaster, some of whose lives are at risk.
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The number of children dying from abuse could be much higher than previously thought, the NSPCC says.
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Political leaders the world over are failing the most vulnerable of their people -- children, the UN child rights organization UNICEF said on Thursday.
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In its annual State of the World&#39;s Children report, UNICEF says half of the world&#39;s population of children suffer from poverty, violence or AIDS.
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Children are fighting in almost every major conflict, in both government and opposition forces, according to a report published today.
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Millions of children go without formal education in former Soviet countries, a Unicef report claims.