One billion kids &#39;miss childhood&#39;
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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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Worldwide, it is estimated that more than 22 million children under five years old are obese or overweight, and more than 17 million of them are in developing countries.
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Almost half of the world's   population, mainly in Africa and Asia, lack access to basic   sanitation, increasing the risk of diarrhea and other diseases   fatal to children, according to a U.N. report released on   Thursday.
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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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At least 43m children around the world are unable to go to school because of armed conflicts, a new report says.
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The study confirms recent estimates, which put the number at roughly one in 160 children â higher than the one-in-200 estimate made in the 1980s.
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A new study released by the United Nations Children&#39;s Fund (UNICEF) indicates the West African nation of Sierra Leone has the world&#39;s highest rate of child mortality.
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For the first time since record keeping began in 1960, the number of deaths of young children around the world has fallen below 10 million a year, Unicef reported.
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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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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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Some 30,000 kids have been used as fighters. Reestablishing a normal life can be difficult.
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A survey finds that more than 30m Chinese children are suffering from mental health or behavioural problems.
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The starkly uneven pace of population growth between most developing and industrialized nations represents the world&#39;s major demographic fault line. The Population Reference Bureau&#39;s 2004 World Population Data Sheet demonstrates that nearly 99 percent ...
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The rate of childhood cancer has slowly increased over the last three decades, research has found.
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A substantial minority of young  adults who have survived a childhood malignancy will have at  least one severe health problem, according to a report  presented here Tuesday at a media briefing of the Journal of  the American Medical Association.
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Millions of children go without formal education in former Soviet countries, a Unicef report claims.
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More than 40,000 Northern Ireland children are living in severe poverty, according to a new report.