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The May 26 news program reported the low-income family could not afford to send their child to hospital for treatment and had never received financial or medical aid from the government or charity organizations.
Recently, UNICEF’s Innocenti Research Centre released a report called “Child Poverty in Perspective: An Overview of Child Well-Being in Rich Countries” in [...]

By Patrick Worsnip UNITED NATIONS, April 3 (Reuters) - Efforts to reduce the number of children dying of HIV/AIDS have made some progress but still fall well short of targets, the U.N. children’s agency UNICEF reported on Thursday. Last year, an estimated 2.1 million children worldwide were infected with HIV [...]

By Alistair Lyon, Special Correspondent SANAA, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Ali Abdu, a slim boy of 14, just wants to go home to his family in the Yemeni mountains. His dream of making money in Saudi Arabia ended in a hospital bed. %26quot;First I worked as a goatherd, then in [...]

By Alistair Lyon, Special Correspondent
SANAA (Reuters) - Ali Abdu, a slim boy of 14, just wants to go home to his family in the Yemeni mountains. His dream of making money in Saudi Arabia ended in a hospital bed.
“First I worked as a goatherd, then in a car-wash for three months. [...]

SANAA (Reuters) - Ali Abdu, a slim boy of 14, just wants to
go home to his family in the Yemeni mountains. His dream of
making money in Saudi Arabia ended in a hospital bed.”First I worked as a goatherd, then in a car-wash for three
months. Then I was hit by a car and spent 29 [...]

If you live in an end-of-terrace house with white goalposts painted on the brickwork, you might not be overjoyed by the government’s call to end the “no ball games” culture. But, with every thud of a football kicked by the kids playing outside, at least you could take comfort from knowing the government is meeting [...]

It’s a hot, sunny day on Goree Island, a short boat ride from Senegal’s bustling capital, Dakar. In the cooling shade of an overhanging tree in the grounds of Mariama Ba school, Aminata Deme talks about a short film on slavery she and her classmates have just recorded. In it, the 14-year-old plays a girl [...]

The review was set up after a disturbing Unicef study a year ago said that British children were the most materially and emotionally deprived of all countries studied.Increasingly childhood, the Tories argue, is spent in front of a flat screen or in highly structured supervised play to which children are driven by their parents.The government [...]

It claims that the orphan and teenage survivor of Sierra Leone’s civil war, in which tens of thousands of people were massacred and much of the population displaced, appears ‘mistaken’ about the timing of key events related in the book. After carrying out investigations in Sierra Leone, the Australian newspaper alleges that Beah was 15 [...]

A 10th of British children at any one time suffer emotional, behavioural or concentration difficulties, according to government figures. And Robert Goodman, who masterminded the Department of Health (DoH) surveys that produced these dramatic figures, says we should all be appalled by them. “If it had been diabetes, it would have been a national scandal,” [...]