UNICEF: More than half of children live in poverty in L. America
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At least 110 million children live in poverty in Latin America, according to a global report issued Thursday by the United Nations Children&#39;s Fund (UNICEF).
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Unicef, the UN agency with the task of ensuring children&#39;s survival, was accused yesterday of not doing enough to prevent the suffering and death of millions of youngsters around the world.
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More than a quarter of all working families in the United States, including 20 million children, are considered low-income or poor, an independent report said yesterday.
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The increase seems small enough: two-fifths of 1 percent. The percentage of Americans living in poverty rose to 12.5 percent in 2003, up from 12.
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The United Nations Children's Fund  (UNICEF) on Wednesday appealed for $576.1 million to help  millions of children in countries in crisis, ranging from Sudan  to Ethiopia and Angola.
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Millions of children live in poverty in Eastern Europe and Central Asia despite economic growth, a UN report says.
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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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More than half the world's  countries are falling behind in a U.N. campaign to reduce child  deaths by two-thirds by 2015, the U.N. children's agency UNICEF  reported on Thursday.
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Some 1.3 million Americans slid into  poverty in 2003 as the ranks of the poor rose 4 percent to 35.9  million, with children and blacks worse off than most, the U.S.  government said on Thursday in a report sure to fuel Democratic  criticism of President Bush.
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Some 1.6 million children in Britain are homeless or living in 'unfit' housing, says homelessness charity Shelter.
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A report by a kids&#39; group says more than half of the children in the world are suffering because of the effects of war, poverty and the HIV virus.
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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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The United Nations children&#39;s fund says that more than half the world&#39;s children are suffering the effects of poverty, war and HIV/AIDS, denying them a healthy and safe childhood.
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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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The UK is bottom of a league table for child well-being across 21 industrialised countries, Unicef says.
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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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The U.S. poverty rate fell for the first time this decade but more people are living without health insurance and the bulk of the nation's poor are children, government data released on Tuesday showed.