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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....
VIDEO: More poor children in working families
2015-07-16 08:13:46| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The proportion of poor children whose parents work has risen, a report on living standards has concluded.
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Asia's poor urban children left out of disaster prevention - report
2014-03-03 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A 12-year-old boy in Kathmandu fears the shoddily-built brick factory he works in will collapse due to heavy rain or an earthquake. Street children in Jakarta say they fall ill when it's really hot or rainy because they don't get enough food. Filipino kids from Manila's slums spend a week or two every monsoon in cramped shelters to escape rising waters. Asia's impoverished urban children are among the groups most vulnerable to disasters, yet few disaster risk reduction (DRR) programmes in the...
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Would $4,000 make poor children cleverer?
2013-11-13 01:01:31| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Would $4,000 make poor children cleverer?
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