The State of the World&#39;s Children 2005: Childhood Under Threat
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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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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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BBC Europe editor Mark Mardell assesses a UN report on children's well-being that puts the UK bottom of the class.
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The survival, rather than the rights, of  children must be the priority of UNICEF over the next decade  because 10 million children are dying every year -- many from  preventable causes, a medical journal said on Friday.
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Thousands of children are at risk of dying from malnutrition in central and southern areas of Somalia formerly considered the country&#39;s breadbasket, the UN Children Fund (UNICEF) said Wednesday.
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In a new report, Harvard researchers sound the alarm about the poor health of American kids. How asthma, obesity and other problems could plague them for the rest of their lives.
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LONDON, Dec 10 (IPS) - Poverty, conflict and HIV/AIDS are the biggest  threats to children's lives in developing countries, says a  new Unicef report.
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BERLIN, Feb. 14 -- The United States and Britain ranked at the bottom of a U.N. survey of child welfare in 21 wealthy countries that assessed subjects from infant mortality to whether children ate dinner with their parents or were bullied at school.
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Â· 31 children worldwide rescued, 15 in BritainÂ· Film files seized include babies being raped
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Authors of a public-health article in this week&#39;s issue of THE LANCET (p 1984) are calling for urgent international action to address the chronic lack of investment in human resources which is limiting the chance of tackling diseases such as HIV/AIDS
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Child labor. Forced abortions. Religious persecution. Jailed dissidents. Cultural cleansing in Tibet and ethnic cleansing in Africa.
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Some 30,000 kids have been used as fighters. Reestablishing a normal life can be difficult.
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Lack of food and education still afflict millions of children around the world, with nearly 10 million youngsters under age 5 dying each year from preventable diseases, the U.N. children's agency said Sunday.
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ONE in 12 children worldwide died before their fifth birthday, with half of all such deaths in sub-Saharan Africa, the United Nations reported yesterday in its annual survey of infant mortality.
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A statistical look at the Dec. 26 Indian Ocean tsunami disaster:
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Two million Iraqi children are facing threats including poor nutrition, lack of education and violence, Unicef says.
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BERLIN -- The United States and Britain ranked at the bottom of a United Nations survey of child welfare in 21 wealthy countries that assessed everything from infant mortality to whether children ate dinner with their parents or were bullied at school.