ICRC highlights world's 'missing'
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The Red Cross says not enough is done to locate those missing as a result of conflicts and other violence.
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A United Nations official who has toured areas devastated by Hurricane Katrina says its victims resemble similarly displaced poor people in other parts of the world
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Despite the near universal embrace of standards for protecting childhood, a new UNICEF report shows that more than half the world&#39;s children are suffering extreme deprivations from poverty, war and HIV/AIDS, conditions that are effectively denying
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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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Up to five million people in the tsunami-struck Indian Ocean region lack access to the basic supplies they need to stay alive, such as clean water, shelter, food, sanitation and health
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World leaders are hoping to put a spotlight on the growing gap between rich and poor and the failure to find &#36;50 billion a year to help more than one billion people escape extreme poverty and start sharing global prosperity.
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Northern Uganda, where around 20,000 children have been kidnapped and many forced to serve as combatants, is the world&#39;s biggest neglected humanitarian crisis, the head of UN humanitarian affairs said yesterday.
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The fate of thousands of people missing in India&#39;s Andaman and Nicobar islands is still unclear as rescuers battle to reach remote communities.
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Once a matter of bitter disputes, the Iraq war is strangely missing from this summit of world powers. A new generation of leaders has turned attention to other problems &#151; from global warming to poverty in Africa &#151; while the war grinds into its fifth year and the U.S. death toll climbs past 3,500.
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More than half the world's children face a brutal existence because of poverty, war and Aids, says Unicef.
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The rest of the world has contributed so little to the fight against AIDS that the U.S. cannot make its full contribution this year.
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Despite some progress, sub-Saharan Africa is behind schedule on all its U.N. Millennium Development Goals, which include halving extreme poverty, halfway towards their target date, the world body reported on Wednesday.
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Up to five million people have been left  without basic essentials by the Indian Ocean tsunami, lacking  either water or food or basic sanitation, a senior U.N.  official said on Wednesday.
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VIENNA, Austria Aug. 30, 2004 - Some nuclear technology ordered by Libya for its former weapons program is missing, while the origin of other material is unclear, the UN nuclear watchdog said Monday, raising
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BERAHILE, Ethiopia  - The mysterious kidnapping of five Europeans and eight locals has put the international spotlight on a remote, barren and searingly hot corner of Ethiopia left behind by the modern world.
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Â· UN report bemoans states' lack of urgencyÂ·  Five-year study involved 1,400 scientists
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The UN and human rights groups express concern over the number of people who disappear in Nepal.