Half the world&#39;s children threatened by extreme poverty: UNICEF
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ROME - Extreme poverty threatens the lives of more than a billion children around the world, according to a report from the United Nations children&#39;s agency.
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More than 90,000 children in Scotland live in "severe poverty", according to a study by a children's charity.
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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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The number of children dying worldwide has dropped below 10 million a year for the first time, UNICEF said Thursday.
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The United Nations Children&#39;s Fund released its annual report that showed that at least one billion children, half of the world&#39;s population of children, suffer from poverty, violent conflict and the scourge of AIDS.
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Global efforts to promote childhood immunization, breast-feeding and anti-malaria measures have helped cut by nearly a quarter the death rate of children under age 5 since 1990, UNICEF said on Wednesday.
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Millions of children live in poverty in Eastern Europe and Central Asia despite economic growth there, a UN report says.
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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
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More than 500 million people can  be lifted out of abject poverty, 250 million people will no  longer go to bed hungry and 30 million children can be saved if  rich countries double development aid over the next 10 years, a  new U.N.-sponsored report said Monday.
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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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ISLAMABAD: Poverty affects around one billion children across the globe, the United Nations International Childrenâs Emergency Fund (UNICEF) revealed in its 2005 report on the state of the worldâs children.
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The UK is bottom of a league table for child well-being across 21 industrialised countries, Unicef says.
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One billion children - half the world&#39;s population of children - suffer from poverty, conflict, HIV and AIDS, according to the United Nations child rights organisation.
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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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The amount of aid rich countries give to poorer nations has fallen by half since the 1960s, risking the lives of millions of children, a leading development charity said in a report released Monday.
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WASHINGTON -- Largely because of the AIDS crisis, nearly one-quarter of all children in Zimbabwe are orphans, a figure that approaches historic levels set in Rwanda after the genocide in 1994, according to a new national survey.
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The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned that the number of young Iraqi children suffering from acute malnutrition has nearly doubled since the March 2003 invasion, as health and living conditions have deteriorated.