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Carol Bellamy

World leaders should put children at centre of development agendas - UNICEF

20 November 2003
World leaders must put children at the heart of their development agendas if countries are to achieve all their development goals, the head of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said today.

Children in war zones are being maimed, murdered, or forced to fight - UN

7 November 2003
Children in war zones have sometimes been murdered or disfigured and many thousands have been recruited into government and rebel fighting forces, according to a new report from United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the UN General Assembly and Security Council.