Birth rate 'harms poverty goals'
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A UK parliamentary group concludes population growth threatens the UN's Millennium Development Goals.
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A push by developed nations could cut poverty in half within a generation, the UN says.
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BRUSSELS, Nov 11 (IPS) - Many developing countries are failing to decrease  the number of deaths in line with the Millennium Development  Goals, says a new World Bank report.
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THE HAGUE, Jul 5 (IPS) - The use of contraceptives in poor countries needs  to be actively promoted, the Dutch minister for development  assistance has said.
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Government efforts to tackle child poverty are failing to help poor parents who work, a think tank says.
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The government's strategy for tackling child poverty discriminates against two-parent families, a report claims.
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UNITED NATIONS, Sep 15 (IPS) - The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) is dispelling a widespread notion -- prevalent mostly in Western countries -- that population growth has ceased to be a serious socio-economic problem primarily because of declining numbers.
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The well-being of children in the UK is the worst among industrialised nations, a Unicef report says.
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Men and women in developing  nations are marrying later, having fewer children and having  them later in life, U.N. demographers reported on Tuesday.
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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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Row over statistics showing 25% of UK babies are born to foreign parents.
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ROME - Extreme poverty threatens the lives of more than a billion children around the world, according to a report from the United Nations children&#39;s agency.
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While reproductive planning and women&#39;s equality have improved substantially over the past decade, says a United Nations report, world population will increase from 6.4 billion today to 8.9 billion by 2050, with the 50 poorest countries tripling in
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The rising cost of privatised healthcare in Asia is behind a spike in child deaths in Cambodia and caused more than half the region to fall behind global goals to lower child mortality, a United Nations report warned.
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Increasing female feticide in India could spark a demographic crisis where fewer women in society will result in a rise in sexual violence and child abuse as well as wife-sharing, the United Nations warned.
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Details of the government's plan to tackle vulnerable children before they are born are to be revealed.
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In its annual State of the World&#39;s Children report, UNICEF says half of the world&#39;s population of children suffer from poverty, violence or AIDS.