War, poverty and Aids causing half of world&#39;s children to suffer
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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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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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Up to 10,000 people, many of them  children, are dying each month from disease and the effects of  violence in Darfur camps despite a big international aid  effort, the World Health Organization said 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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More than 40,000 Northern Ireland children are living in severe poverty, according to a new report.
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Latin America has seen a decline in child mortality rate, but the situation in Iraq, countries of the former Soviet Union and those in sub-Saharan Africa has worsened over the
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In Sierra Leone, one in four children dies before age 5. In Iraq, one in 10 does not make it to a fifth birthday. Across the globe, poor care for newborns, malnutrition, malaria, diarrhea and measles snuff out lives of the very young, according to a U.N. report released Friday.
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LONDON, Nov 17 (IPS) - Hundreds of thousands of child soldiers are being   used in conflicts around the world and governments are doing  little to  stop this, says a report published Wednesday.
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Hunger and malnutrition kill more than 5 million children each year and cost developing countries billions of dollars in lost productivity, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) annual hunger report.
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A lack of drugs adapted to the needs of children with HIV/AIDS means that many of them are dying needlessly, says the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders.
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Nearly half of girls in some African  countries are raped, an advocacy group said on Thursday in a  report that sharply criticizes existing programs aimed at  curbing violence to help stop the spread of AIDS.
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Boys and girls as young as nine years  old are in the front line of wars across the world, and even  when the fighting has finished they are largely neglected in  the peace process, a report said Wednesday.
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Children are fighting in almost every major conflict, in both government and opposition forces, according to a report published today.
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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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Millions of children live in poverty in Eastern Europe and Central Asia despite economic growth, a UN report says.
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LISBON, Dec 13 (IPS) - War, AIDS, malaria, cholera and famine have  gradually turned Africa into a continent full of orphaned  children and teenagers.
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Six years of continuing conflict in Congo have claimed 3.8 million lives, half of them children, with most killed by disease and famine in the still largely cutoff east, the International Rescue Committee said in a study Thursday.