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Day of African Child spotlights continental children's many emergencies

16 June 2005
On the Day of the African Child today, marking the South African apartheid Government's shooting of children marching for improved education in 1976, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) highlighted the deprivation still suffered by African children as funding lags far behind need.

UN food agency, Nigerian leader urge G-8 to focus on child hunger in Africa

10 June 2005
The head of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo today called for greater efforts to eradicate child hunger and malnutrition in Africa, ahead of next month's summit of the leaders of the world's richest countries in Scotland.
Child miner struggles

More than a million children work in mines, “digging for survival,” UN says

9 June 2005
To mark World Day against Child Labour on Sunday, the United Nations labour agency is spotlighting the problems of over a million children around the world who help to support their families by working as miners, often for small unregulated enterprises in dangerous conditions.

African child deaths could reach 5 million by 2015, warns UN agency

9 June 2005
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) warned today that some 5 million African children will die by 2015 if donor countries stick to a "business as usual" approach to development on the continent.

Children in European and Central Asian residential institutions vulnerable to abuse - UN

1 June 2005
The estimated 1 million children who go from broken homes to residential institutions in Europe and Central Asia are “desperately vulnerable” to violence that is only rarely reported, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says in a new report.