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Poor Children Are Twice As Likely To Die Before 5th Birthday Than Rich: UN
2016-06-28 13:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: The number of children who do not attend school is rising, child marriage has not dropped in decades and millions of young children will die mostly preventable deaths by 2030 if global poverty is not addressed, UNICEF said in a bleak report issued on Tuesday. Poor children are twice as likely as rich children to die before age 5, and poor girls are more than twice as likely to become child brides in signs of troubling inequality, said the annual report by the United Nations' children's agency....
The impact of disasters in Asia Pacific on schools and children
2016-06-19 20:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A greater humanitarian focus on schools before, during and after natural disasters will save lives, protect children and benefit communities and countries, Save the Children says in a report due out this week. The report details the impact on education of earthquakes, floods and storms that struck Nepal, Myanmar, Indonesia, the Philippines and Vanuatu last year. The disasters range from large humanitarian crises - such as the massive twin quakes in Nepal that killed 8,900 people - to the seasonal...
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PPG Again Supports Hands-on Science and Technology Exhibition for Children in Gonfreville, France
2016-06-16 18:52:00| Coatings World Breaking News
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India to vaccinate 300,000 children after polio strain found in sewage
2016-06-15 11:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: India plans to urgently immunize around 300,000 children against the crippling polio virus after a strain of the highly contagious disease was detected in sewage in the southern city of Hyderabad, the ministry of health said on Wednesday. India was declared polio free by the World Health Organization in March 2014 after an almost two-decade long, multi-million dollar effort - lauded as one of the country's biggest public health achievements in recent times. A health ministry statement confirmed...
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Air pollution linked to increased mental illness in children
2016-06-13 10:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A major new study has linked air pollution to increased mental illness in children, even at low levels of pollution. The new research found that relatively small increases in air pollution were associated with a significant increase in treated psychiatric problems. It is the first study to establish the link but is consistent with a growing body of evidence that air pollution can affect mental and cognitive health and that children are particularly vulnerable to poor air quality. The research,...
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