UN official says Iraqi children worse off
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GENEVA -- The situation for Iraqi children is getting worse and, in some respects, was better before the war began, a senior UN official said yesterday.
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Torture is rampant in Iraqi prisons and   police detention centers, and may be worse than under Saddam   Hussein's rule, a U.N. human rights investigator said on   Thursday .
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The United Nations, citing evidence of   severe torture, said Iraq had become deadlier than ever, as   local Iraqi forces took charge of a southern province from   departing Italian soldiers on Thursday.
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GENEVA -- The fighting in Iraq is ''wreaking havoc&quot; on the children, all but preventing relief groups from working in the country, the UN children's agency said yesterday.
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WASHINGTON -- The United Nations special representative for Iraq yesterday painted a bleak picture of the situation on the ground and ruled out a large-scale return of UN personnel to Iraq, despite mounting US and Iraqi pressure for more UN help with elections that are slated for January.
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Iraq&#39;s children are in dire straits, UNICEF said on Wednesday as it appealed for 42 million dollars to help those caught up in the horrors of sectarian killings, economic insecurity and mass migration.
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A senior U.N. official says 58 groups in 13 countries still recruit and use child soldiers many of whom are killed, maimed, abducted and raped and denied access to humanitarian groups
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Security risks to reconstruction workers in Sunni-dominated parts of Iraq have grown worse over the past six weeks, the U.S. coordinator said Friday.
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The U.N. Secretary-General urged Iraqis to take advantage of the recent decrease in violence and deaths to work across ethnic, sectarian and political lines for national reconciliation.
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Horrific evidence of systemic abuse of special needs children at state-run orphanage in Baghdad.
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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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WAR, poverty and HIV/Aids are causing more than half of the worldâs children to suffer, effectively denying them a childhood, according to a report today.
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Hundreds more Iraqis died in violence   in July and August than in the previous two months, many of   them tortured to death because of their religion with cables,   acid and power drills, a U.N. report said on Wednesday.
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The U.N. secretary-general warned that violence against women has reached "hideous" levels in some countries trying to recover from conflict, and the U.N. Security Council demanded an end to impunity for rape and other sexual abuse.
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Children in Afghanistan are increasingly at risk as the country's security situation deteriorates and the central government's authority is weakened, the United Nations Children's Fund said on Thursday.
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Â· 'Disturbing trend' to exploit children in Iraq  Â· Coalition forces admit holding 600 juveniles
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At least 43m children around the world are unable to go to school because of armed conflicts, a new report says.