the Sugar Conspiracy

Monday, December 13, 2004

Won't somebody please think about the children?

More than half the world's children are suffering extreme effects of poverty, war and HIV/Aids, denying them a healthy and safe childhood, according to a report published today.

The Unicef annual report on The State of the World's Children found more than 1 billion children were growing up hungry and unhealthy, schools had become targets for warring parties, and whole villages were being killed off by Aids.

And don't think this is just about those poor starving kids in Africa that Sally Struthers pimps out.

The agency said poverty was not confined to developing countries, with the proportion of children living in low-income households in 11 of 15 industrialised nations rising in the past decade. More than 10 million child deaths were recorded in 2003, with an estimated 29,158 children under five dying from mostly preventable deaths every day.

posted by chris at 3:11 PM
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