Children live in 'severe poverty'
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More than 40,000 Northern Ireland children are living in severe poverty, according to a new report.
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Schools for children with special needs should not close unless provision is improving, the government says.
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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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Encouraging lone parents back to work would lift 500,000 children out of poverty, says a report.
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Details of the government's plan to tackle vulnerable children before they are born are to be revealed.
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BRUSSELS, Aug 31 (IPS) - Poverty in the Palestinian territories has reached  "unprecedented levels" because they have been held under  an "economic siege" for almost seven years, a United  Nations body has found.
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Today, even a world grown weary of shocking statistics and bad news will receive a number that jolts: half of all children in the world are deprived of the essentials for survival and are suffering a brutal childhood as a result.
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Â·  More than 10,000 pupils in poor areas to benefit Â·  English parents may get children's weight warning
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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 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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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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The gap in achievement between poor children and their peers widens at every stage of schooling, a report says.
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NEW DELHI -- Neelamdevi Thakur lives in a working-class slum and earns a living washing dishes in middle-class homes twice a day. In the past year, two of her five children, who attend an affluent private school, have returned home speaking words that she had never heard from her other children, who...
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Across the United States, a growing number of children are living in shelters or group homes.
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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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More than 900,000 people in Scotland are living in poverty, including 240,000 children, a study warns.
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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.