IPS Inter Press Service –Children Under Siege Feed Summary:
The U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child provides a universal framework for protecting and realising children’s rights. People of faith have joined together as the Global Network of Religions for Children (GNRC) to do their part;in May an international Forum in Hiroshima will have three themes:promoting ethics education to stop violence against children;putting children first in human development;and empowering children through ethics education to protect our planet.
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Children Under Siege - INTER PRESS SERVICE (04.02.2012 11:08h): UNICEF Funding Falls Short Leaving Millions of Children at Risk
If the United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF had 1.28 billion dollars it could help 97 million people around the world. [
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Children Under Siege - INTER PRESS SERVICE (04.02.2012 11:08h): Photos of Armed Children Ignite Scandal in Venezuela
A radical political group based in a working class neighbourhood of the Venezuelan capital has sparked a furore by publishing photographs of children from the community,with their faces partially hidden,brandishing AR-15 assault rifles. [
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PAKISTAN-INDIA (28.01.2012 14:41h): Women Expose Secret Genital Cutting Rite
"It was a dark and dingy room,where an elderly woman asked me to take off my panties,made me sit on a low wooden stool with my legs parted and then did something…I screamed out in pain,"recalls Alefia Mustansir,40,of her childhood experience. [
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EL SALVADOR (27.01.2012 07:02h): Gangs May Be Scapegoat for Soaring Murder Rate
El Salvador is one of the most violent countries in the world,with one of the highest murder rates. But the authorities cannot agree on whether or not most of the killings should be laid at the door of the youth gangs known as "maras". [
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SRI LANKA (27.01.2012 07:02h): Poorest Still Go Hungry
Experts agree that Sri Lanka's free pre and postnatal clinics across the island nation have helped bring infant mortality down to 15 per 1,000 live births and the under-five mortality rate to 21 per 1,000 live births. [
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U.S. (25.01.2012 00:34h): Forced Marriages Still an Ugly Secret
Two years ago,40-year-old Vidya Sri decided to leave the devastating marriage her parents had forced her into nearly two decades ago. Alone for the first time,she began an earnest quest for support groups,women's organisations or service providers who might help her in the healing process. [
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PAKISTAN (24.01.2012 22:54h): Violence,Death Stalk Child Domestic Help
"He was a happy child,my younger brother,"Mohammad Ramzan,18,reminisced,his voice steeped in sadness. [
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INDIA (24.01.2012 13:27h): Advancing Economy Reveals a Hungry Underbelly
Even a year after Rani,a three-year-old tribal girl in the backward Wayanad district of southern Kerala state,was treated in a government hospital for gastroenteritis she remains grossly underweight and suffers from frequent bouts of diarrhoea. [
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JAPAN (21.01.2012 09:58h): Pushing Nuclear Exports After Fukushima
Japan plans to boost civilian nuclear exports even as it tries to appease its population angered at radiation leaks from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant,crippled by an earthquake and tsunami on Mar. 11,last year. [
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THAILAND (16.01.2012 00:40h): Malay-Muslim Insurgency - Lessons Learnt
Teachers'Day on Jan. 16 was a sombre affair in Thailand's troubled southern provinces where memories are strong of 155 educators killed over the past eight years in an insurgency led by Malay-Muslim separatists. [
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MEXICO (12.01.2012 08:46h): Cross-Border Child Custody,a Legal Tangle
Mexican or foreign-born children being held by one of their parents in this or another country are caught up in a legal tangle marred by red tape and the arbitrary powers of judges,according to experts. [
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AFGHANISTAN (04.01.2012 04:19h): Catch 'em Young,for Prostitution
Soma was a teenager in the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif when her grandfather arranged her marriage to a husband she had never met. [
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JAPAN (30.12.2011 17:15h): New Year Brings Economic Aftershocks
Hideo Sato,47,and his family escaped to this snowy city 200 km from the radiation emitting Fuksuhima power plant that was struck by a massive earthquake-driven tsunami on Mar. 11. [
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U.S. (24.12.2011 11:07h): Despite Obesity Crisis,Govt Slow to Rein in Fast Food Industry
When the fast food chain McDonald's decided to add oatmeal to its menu in January 2011,it literally sugar-coated the offering as a "portable,affordable and balanced breakfast solution... to help make it easier and more inviting for our guests to eat more whole grains and fruits". [
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MIDEAST (24.12.2011 11:07h): Some Comfort Fails to End Agony
Yousef walks barefoot into a children's room with four beds and points to a snoopy-blanketed bed by the window. "That's where I sleep,"he says. A red remote-controlled toy racecar sits atop a new mini-laptop. The closet is full of clothes,a pot of soup simmering on the gas range in the spacious kitchen,and the wooden dining table is piled with seasonal fruit. [
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JAPAN (23.12.2011 11:14h): Mothers Rise Against Nuclear Power
Japan's nuclear power industry,which once ignored opposition,now finds its existence threatened by women angered by official opaqueness on radiation from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant after it was struck by an earthquake- driven tsunami on Mar. 11. [
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BRAZIL (09.12.2011 21:19h): Child-Adapted Formula to Deal Major Blow to Chagas Disease
A new paediatric formulation developed in Brazil holds out hope for a cure for over 90 percent of newborn babies infected with Chagas disease,a parasitic infection endemic in 21 Latin American countries,where it kills more people every year than malaria. [
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Children Under Siege - INTER PRESS SERVICE (28.11.2011 20:13h): Celebrity Power Boosts U.N.'s New Anti-Trafficking Campaign
It happens every day across the globe,with many of its young victims lured by false promises into the world's third most profitable criminal activity. This is human trafficking. [
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EL SALVADOR (19.11.2011 03:57h): Giving Young Slum Dwellers a Chance
In a country where hard-line policies have failed to make a dent in soaring levels of violent crime,Salesian priest JoséMaría Moratalla has produced good results by offering educational and vocational opportunities to juvenile offenders and young people at risk of falling into crime. [
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U.S. (19.11.2011 03:57h): The 'School to Prison Pipeline':Education Under Arrest
Metal detectors. Teams of drug-sniffing dogs. Armed guards and riot police. Forbiddingly high walls topped with barbed wire. [
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Children Under Siege - INTER PRESS SERVICE (15.11.2011 19:16h): Toxins Rob More Than a Decade of Life from Millions
Toxic pollution affects the health of more than 100 million people,shortening their productive life spans by an astonishing 12.7 years on average. [
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Landgrabbing in Ethiopia (15.11.2011 19:16h): Legal Lease or Stolen Soil?
Kneeling in the middle of a sugar cane field in blistering 40 degree heat,a young boy is digging up weeds while an Indian worker stands over him to make sure he does not miss any. Red is eight years old and earns 73 pence for one day's work - less than the cost of using pesticides. [
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ARGENTINA (12.11.2011 15:44h): Digital Revolution Hits Secondary Schools
Every student and teacher has a laptop with Internet connection in half of the public secondary schools in Argentina,even in remote rural villages or on islands. [
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JAPAN (08.11.2011 23:30h): Women Fight to Save Fukushima's Children
Hundreds of Japanese women have been converging on the Japanese capital demanding better relief for some 30,000 children exposed to nuclear radiation by the Fukushima meltdown. [
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GUATEMALA (05.11.2011 16:54h): "We Want Girls to Be Visible"
"I learned to not be afraid,and to love myself. Before,I never wanted to talk to people because I felt like they looked down on me and that I was no good,"says 12-year-old Hilda Tura,one of the participants in a programme fostering leadership among indigenous girls in Guatemala. [
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