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Half world’s children suffereing

A new UNICEF report estimates that 1 billion of the world’s 2.1 billion children (of whom 1.9 billion live in the developing world) are suffering extreme effects from poverty, war and HIV/AIDS. As UNICEF’s executive director says:

“Poverty doesn’t come from nowhere. When half the world’s children are growing up hungry and unhealthy, when schools have become targets and whole villages emptied by Aids, we’ve failed to deliver on the promise of childhood.”

Some of the figures listed in the report are seriously disturbing.