UNICEF: Early to Say Tsunami Kids Orphans
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The U.N. children's agency said Friday the rush to declare children orphans in tsunami-hit areas is premature and all efforts must focus on reuniting youngsters with their families.
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Unicef, the United Nationâs fund for children, reported it raised $7.5 million since Sunday for tsunami victims in south Asia. âYesterday we raised more online than
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A Virginia-based missionary group said this week that it has airlifted 300 "tsunami orphans" from the Muslim province of Banda Aceh to Jakarta, the Indonesian capital, where it plans to raise them in a Christian children's home.
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Nations agree the UN should begin work on an tsunami early warning system for the Indian Ocean.
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The United Nations called on donors Tuesday to set a record by meeting in full its &#36;1.0 billion appeal for immediate aid to victims of Asia's tsunami, and pledged to be open about how the money was spent.
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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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As the Asian tsunami focuses world attention on natural disasters, experts on Wednesday called for a global early warning system for all such catastrophes as soon as possible.
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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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PARIS, Jan 20 (IPS) - Parents across Europe are being warned against  adopting children orphaned by the Indian Ocean tsunami.
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Ashlee Simpson and Teen People magazine have put together an auction to benefit UNICEF's relief and recovery efforts for the young victims of the Dec. 26 Asian earthquake and tsunami disaster.
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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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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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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - There were probably fewer  orphans than originally thought in Asia's tsunami-hit areas,  the head of the U.N. Children's Fund said, and efforts should  be directed toward uniting children with family members.
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The survival, rather than the rights, of  children must be the priority of UNICEF over the next decade  because 10 million children are dying every year -- many from  preventable causes, a medical journal said on Friday.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - U.S. helicopters shuttled  the injured and the homeless, many of them children, out of  some of the worst-hit parts of tsunami-devastated Aceh province  on Monday, as reports surfaced of trafficking in orphans from  the disaster.
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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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Families in the United States are asking about adopting children from areas devastated by the tsunami, but adoption officials say it's too early to consider bringing orphaned children into the country.