Children in Gaza, Zimbabwe need urgent help: U.N.
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Children in Gaza and Zimbabwe desperately need help to ensure they have food, clean water and schooling, and international aid is running short, a senior United Nations official said on Monday.
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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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Child malnutrition in Somalia is at critical levels due to violence and lack of access for aid workers, the U.N. children's agency said on Wednesday.
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The United Nations warned in a special report released today of an impending humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip, saying nearly 70% of Palestinians are living in poverty as a result of Israeli policies and military operations.
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The United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF said it was counselling more than 100,000 children who were traumatised by the death of relatives in the tsunami-hit southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
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The international Red Cross issued a dire warning on the state of basic services in Gaza on Tuesday, calling on Israel to lift a blockade it has imposed in response to increased rocket attacks by Palestinian militants.
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Children raced to help parents collect food from U.N. aid distribution centers in the Gaza Strip as women sat in the shade near trucks, waiting for their names to be called to receive their food rations.
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Gaza's children used to light colorful lanterns to mark Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting. But this year, many parents can't afford those small $1 toys as the coastal strip sinks deeper into poverty amid an aid cutoff to punish the Hamas-led government.
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Israel demanded Sunday the United  Nations investigate whether Palestinians filmed in the Gaza  Strip were militants using a U.N. van to transport rockets for  use against Israel.
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Hundreds of thousands of badly malnourished children with limited access to hospital care, could be given life-saving treatment at home with a locally-made peanut butter based food, U.N. aid agencies said.
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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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The UN highlights the plight of children orphaned by the tsunami disaster, some of whose lives are at risk.
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The UN children&#39;s agency Saturday called upon eastern and southern African nations, where more than eight million children live in dire poverty, to fight the boom in child trafficking on a war footing.
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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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The United Nations said on Tuesday it was concerned children orphaned or separated from their parents by Asia's tsunami may be falling prey to criminal gangs bent on selling them into slavery.
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GAZA CITY, 8 October 2004 - Israeli forces killed two children and a fighter yesterday as the United Nations delivered aid to Palestinian families trapped in the Jabaliya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip.
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Children in Afghanistan are increasingly at risk as the country's security situation deteriorates and the central government's authority is weakened, the United Nations Children's Fund said on Thursday.