UN Says Fewer Tsunami Orphans Than Feared
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The head of the U.N.  Children's Fund said there were probably fewer orphans than  originally thought in Asia's tsunami-hit areas, and efforts  should be directed toward uniting children with family members.
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A partial list of the countries and organizations pledging aid for tsunami victims, based on U.N. data and official announcements by the nations. The United Nations said Saturday that about &#36;2 billion has been promised so far.
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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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The United Nations warned on Monday of epidemics within days unless health systems in southern Asia can cope after more than 15,500 people were killed and hundreds of thousands left homeless by a giant tsunami.
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The U.S. State Department has ruled out, for now, the adoption of children from countries devastated by the tsunami disaster.
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The youngest victims of the Asian  tsunami may be homeless, traumatized and possibly orphaned, but  they are not yet candidates for adoption in the United States,  the State Department said on Wednesday.
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Developing the scientific potential of poor nations could reduce the scale of disasters like the Asian tsunami, researchers said on Thursday.
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HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka  - U.N. Secretary-General  Kofi Annan saw the scars on Saturday that the tsunami left in  Sri Lanka, where lives are in ruins but where hard work and  outside help have started to make a difference.
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The UN warns of an epidemic as the number of tsunami and quake deaths soars above 55,000 and thousands remain missing. BANDA ACEH, INDONESIA -- Desperate refugees foraged for coconuts or looted food on Indonesia&#39;s
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Children displaced, often orphaned, by tsunami, earthquakes and other disasters made last year a particularly sordid one for their exploitation as cheap labor or sexual victims, the government said Wednesday.
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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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The youngest victims of the Asian tsunami may be homeless, traumatized and possibly orphaned, but they are not yet candidates for adoption in the United States, the State Department said on Wednesday.
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The United Nations said on Friday it had received reports Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers were recruiting children displaced by Asia's tsunami and had told the rebels to leave under-age survivors alone.
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A UN conference on natural disasters adopts a plan to minimise casualties,  but fails to set specific targets.
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Seven thousand fewer girls are born in India each day than the global average would suggest, largely because female fetuses are aborted after sex determination tests, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday.
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In just over a decade Indonesia has managed to cut by half its mortality rate for children aged under five but the country still has work to do to tackle regional trouble spots, the United Nations said.
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The United Nations yesterday set aside $1 million to assess environmental damage caused by this week's devastating tsunami, as reports of destroyed coral reefs and uprooted mangrove forests began trickling in.