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UNICEF News, Mar 01, 2012

UNICEF - Q&A – The State of the World's Children 2012 – Children in an Urban World
UNICEF (press release)
On the occasion of the launch of The State of the World's Children 2012: Children in an Urban World, UNICEF's communication specialist Tobias Dierks asked Parag Khanna, one of the world's leading geo-strategists, what impact urbanization has on our ...
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UNICEF State of the World's Children Released
NL-Aid
UNICEF has recently published their flagship publication, The State of theWorld's Children, which each year examines a key issue affecting children. Last year's report, The State of the World's Children 2011: Adolescence – An Age of Opportunity, ...
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UNICEF Report Warns Cities Are Failing Our Children (VIDEO)
Care2.com (blog)
By 2050, UNICEF estimates two thirds of the world's population will live in urban settings. And who risks falling through the cracks? The children. As the report notes, the impact on children living in such conditions is significant.
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In an Indian slum area, a beautiful photo for an ugly story
Los Angeles Times
Every day on World Now, we choose a striking photo from around the world. Today we stumbled upon this unusual shot of a little girl in India sitting on metal rods outside her home in a Mumbai slum. It is a beautiful photo from the Associated Press, ...
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UNICEF 2012 report focuses on urban children
China.org.cn
UNICEF has released its flagship report "The State of the World'sChildren 2012." The report calls for more emphasis on marginalized children in cities worldwide. In China, a huge number of children suffer from disparities as urbanization rapidly ...
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China.org.cn
Migration worse for urban children: UNICEF report
IANS
New Delhi, With more than 50 percent of the world's population now living in urban areas, urban migration has worsened the reach of social schemes on health and nutrition to children, said theUNICEF's annual State of the World's Children (SOTWC) ...
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IANS
UNICEF launches flagship report in Mexico City, warns that cities are failing ...
UNICEF (press release)
By Thomas Nybo UNICEF's flagship report, 'The State of theWorld's Children 2012: Children in an Urban World', was launched on 28 February, focusing attention on children in urban areas. One billion children live in urban areas, a number that is ...
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UNICEF (press release)
In India 22% of mothers under 18: Unicef report
Economic Times
Latest data in the "State of the World's Children report 2012" released byUnicef on Wednesday shows that almost 22% women in India, who are now aged between 20 and 24 years gave birth to a child before they turned 18. Almost 45 among every 1000 births ...
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Speech by Anthony Lake, UNICEF Executive Director at the launch of State of ...
UNICEF (press release)
We have come to Mexico to launch The State of the World's Children 2012: Children in an Urban World for a very good reason: This nation, home to one of the world's largest megacities, is already confronting the challenges of urbanization … and seeking ...
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Mumbai tops list of cities with most slum dwellers
gulfnews.com
New Delhi The city of dreams, Mumbai has topped the list of cities that are home to a maximum number of slum dwellers in India,Unicef's annual State of the World's Children report said here Wednesday. The report with the theme "Children in Urban ...
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gulfnews.com
UNICEF: “Epicenter” of Poverty Shifting to Cities
SOS Children's Villages Canada (press release)
Slum children may be some of the world's most invisible. According to a new report by the United Nations (UN), aggregated data on children in cities obscures the number living in slums. The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) released its flagship publication, ...
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More children growing up in urban areas excluded from essential services...
Ghana Business News
Over a billion children around the world are growing up in cities and towns, and those living in poor communities are deprived and excluded from essential services, according to a United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) report released February 28, ...
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Ghana Business News
Urbanisation excludes children from vital services, UNICEF warns
Information Nigeria
THE United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in 'The State of the World'sChildren 2012: Children in an Urban World' it released on Tuesday, warned that urbanisation excludes hundreds of millions of children in cities and towns from vital services.
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Rural poor in India better off than urban poor: Unicef
Hindustan Times
Poor households of urban India are emerging hotspots for hunger and ill-health and children there live in worse conditions than in rural areas, says a new UN report released on Wednesday. say that like most parts of the world, children living in around ...
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UNICEF: Hundreds of Millions of City Children Lack Vital
Awoko
In this year's State of the World's Children report, UNICEF describes the grim reality of children growing up in poverty in city slums, which offer few of the benefits available to children of a wealthier class. Cities are great places for people who ...
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State of the World's Children 2012 Presented in Havana
Radio Cadena Agramonet
... during the presentation in this capital of the report State of theWorld's Children 2012: Children in an Urban World. During the meeting, the representative to Cuba of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Jose Juan Ortiz Bru, focused on the ...
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Radio Cadena Agramonet
Koel Mullick announces UNICEF report on children
indiablooms
Kolkata, Feb 29 (IBNS): UNICEF on Wednesday announced the 'State of the World's Children 2012' report on Wednesday in Kolkata that highlighted the problems faced by children in certain sections like education and health. Tollywood actor Koel Mullick, ...
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Urban kids vulnerable to poverty
Deccan Chronicle
A new Indian specific statistics presented at the launch of the Unicef's flagship publication,Children in an Urban World, shows that the child poverty indicators are equally worse in the cases of both the rural and the urban poor populations.
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Failing children
Stabroek News
By Stabroek staff | 0 Comments | Editorial | Thursday, March 1, 2012 Cities are failing children, UNICEF warns in 'The State of the World's Children 2012: Children in an Urban World.' The annual report on the issues and situations that children face, ...
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Slum kids in urban areas most deprived: UN report
IBNLive.com
PTI New Delhi: Slum children in urban areas across the world, including India, happen to be the most deprived and their sufferings are often obscured by broad statistical averages, a latest UN study has said. In India, like the rest of the world, ...
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UNICEF says millions of kids live in squalid urban areas
Tempo
More than half of the world's population lives in cities and towns, including a billion children. By 2050, two-thirds of the world's people are expected to live in urban areas, UNICEF said. Many poor children in urban areas do not go to school and ...
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Families in city slums spend 20pc of income for education: UNICEF
Financial Express Bangladesh
... well-off parents, a UNICEF report said. Though cities offer many children advantages like urban schools, clinics and playgrounds, the same cities across the world are also places for some of the greatest disparities regarding children's health, ...
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Urban children face health, edu, safe water problems
Pakistan Observer
The report simultaneously launched in different parts of the world in its chapters focussed on Pakistan said the situation has reduced chances of these children to reach full potential in a productive adult work force. Pakistan was cited to have 37 per ...
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Pregnant women ignored amid rapid urbanization - UNICEF
Women News Network
... children agency (UNICEF) says in a report. The aid agency's flagship State of the World's Children report – which this year focuses on urban poverty – warned that the basic needs of children are not being met amid the world's rapid urbanization.
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Women News Network
Millions Of Children In Cities Face Poverty And Exclusion
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
'The State of the World's Children 2012' report released by the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), highlights the hardship that many children living in urban areas go through, which are in many cases concealed by statistical averages in which the poverty of ...
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Here, human bones are kids' toys
Chandigarh Tribune
This shocking narration of the state of urban poor children by Shanta Sinha, Chairperson of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights, became the reference point today for discussions around UNICEF's Flagship State of the WorldChildren ...
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Chandigarh Tribune
Urban Slum Children Among Most Disadvantaged
AllAfrica.com
According to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) report The State of the World's Children 2012: Children in an Urban World, released on Feb. 28, an increasing number of children living in urban slums are among the most disadvantaged and ...
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All is not well for kids in India
Daily Pioneer
Notwithstanding the high GDP growth and rapid development, the condition of children in India is still deplorable as 72 per cent of those living in rural areas suffer from anemia while 46 percent are underweight, according to a UNICEFreport.
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Bangladesh's urban population crosses 41.7mn: Unicef BD NEWS ...
By bd news
News as it happens 24 hours BDNEWS. Khaleda Zia It is ... Unicef Bangladesh officially launched the global report titled 'The State of the World's Children 2012: Children in an Urban World' at National Press Club. Planning secretary Bhuiyan ...
BD NEWS 24 hour news from Bangladesh
UNICEF says millions of kids live in squalid urban areas | Tempo ...
By Online
More than half of the world's population lives in cities and towns, including a billion children. By 2050, two-thirds of the world's people are expected to live in urban areas, UNICEF said. Many poor children in urban areas do not go to school ...
Tempo - News in a Flash
More children growing up in urban areas ... - Ghana Business News
By ekow
Over a billion children around the world are growing up in cities and towns, and those living in poor communities are deprived and excluded from essential services, according to a United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) report released ...
Ghana Business News
Pregnant women ignored amid rapid urbanization – UNICEF ...
By Women News Network
The aid agency's flagship State of the World's Children report – which this year focuses on urban poverty – warned that the basic needs of children are not being met amid the world's rapid urbanization. Most deaths from pregnancy or childbirth could be averted if expectant mothers could be ... WNN partnership with Thomson Reuters Foundation TrustLaw Women. No part of this article release may be reproduced without prior permissions from WNN, Reutersnews or TrustLaw Women.
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NEWS - WORLD - UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake on...
WATCH MORE ON CANAL INTERNACIONAL: www.ci-webtv.com UNICEF Executive ...
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Unicef says urban children in developing world need urgent ...
On another beach in a different world, Chinasa Paul would be sipping a soft drink bought by his parents. But if the 15-year-old eats today in Lagos, it will be...
www.independent.co.uk/.../unicef-says-urban-children-in-dev...
Children left behind in world's city boom: UNICEF - Seven News ...
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - More than one billion children now live in crowded cities around the world but too many are stuck among the poorest of the poor...
au.news.yahoo.com/.../children-left-behind-in-worlds-city-boo...
UNICEF: Millions of kids live in urban squalor - US News and World ...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Millions of children are growing up in squalid urban areas and denied basic services despite living close to them, the United Nations ...
www.usnews.com/.../unicef-millions-of-kids-live-in-urban-squ...
Child poverty grows as cities expand - World - CBC News
Urban centres around the world are failing to nurture their growing populations, a trend that UNICEF says is leaving children in hunger and poverty.
www.cbc.ca/news/world/.../children-cities-unicef-report.html
World's slum children in desperate need, UNICEF says [Video]
Many of the urban poor don't go to school, according to a UNICEF's report on the state of the world's children. Instead they work, often in dangerous or ...
latimesblogs.latimes.com/.../unicef-report-says-worlds-slum-ch...
World News: Split between rich and poor greater in cities, UNICEF ...
According to UNICEF'S 2012 annual report, the city is beckoning to many in the developing world, but children often grow up in slums and fall behind in health ...
www.thestar.com/.../1137643--split-between-rich-and-poor-gr...
New report - Children's charity news: UNICEF Australia | UNICEF ...
Stay up to date on what UNICEF is doing around the world to help children ...according to UNICEF's new report State of the World's Children which looks at ...
www.unicef.org.au/.../New-report--city-children-excluded-fro...
UNICEF: Millions of kids live in urban squalor | AP World News - The ...
MEXICO CITY - A UNICEF report says that millions of children around theworld are growing up in squalid urban areas and denied basic services despite living ...
www.thenewstribune.com/.../unicef-millions-of-kids-live-in.ht...
PalmBeachPost UNICEF: Millions of kids live in ... - Palm Beach Post
A UNICEF report says that millions of children around the world are growing up in squalid urban areas and denied basic services despite living close to them.
www.palmbeachpost.com/.../unicef-millions-of-kids-live-in-ur...
UNICEF: Millions of kids live in urban squalor without basic ...
By 2050, two-thirds of the world's people are expected to live in urban areas,UNICEF said. Many poor children in urban areas don't go to school and instead...
www.washingtonpost.com/.../gIQAr1UTgR_story.html
The State of the World's Children 2012 | News | UNICEF UK
Cities leave hundreds of millions of children excluded from vital services,UNICEF warns in its new report, The State of the World's Children 2012.
https://www.unicef.org.uk/.../state-of-the-worlds-children-201...
Mumbai tops list of homes to slum dwellers: Unicef report - World Snap
The city of dreams, Mumbai has topped the list of cities that are home to a maximum number of slum dwellers in India, Unicef's annual State of theWorld's.
news.worldsnap.com/.../mumbai-tops-list-of-homes-to-slum-d...
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