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Children of war: Africa's civil conflicts harm 100,000 young lives
Thursday 18. of November 2004By: The Independent - Meera Selva
More than 100,000 children have been abducted, tortured and sexually abused before being recruited to fight in Africa's long-running civil wars in the past three years, a report revealed yesterday.
Children smuggled into UK for sex abuse and slavery
Tuesday 12. of June 2007By: The Guardian
The trade in hundreds of children smuggled into the UK for sexual exploitation, drug smuggling, under-age marriage, street crime and domestic slavery was exposed last night in a government report. The Home Office-commissioned...
Save the Children highlights plight of 90,000 young Scots
Tuesday 19. of June 2007By: The Herald
More than 90,000 Scottish children are living in the "most severe poverty", according to a Save the Children report published today. The study, entitled Living Below the Radar, provides worrying new figures which show many...
Poor children face holiday hardship
Thursday 12. of July 2007By: AOL
Parents in poverty struggle to afford basic summer activities for their children, with two-thirds unable to pay for trips and visits. A report by Save the Children revealed that youths from half of all low income families are...
Depth of child poverty in Britain exposed by report
Thursday 15. of November 2007By: The Independent
The true hardships of the one in three children in Britain who live in poverty are exposed in a new report revealing that a quarter of the country's poorest households cannot afford to put a daily hot meal on the table for every...
Poverty mars formation of infant brains
Saturday 16. of February 2008By: Financial Times
Poverty in early childhood poisons the brain, the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Boston heard on Friday. Neuroscientists said many children growing up in very poor families with low social status...
Brown needs grassroots help on aid
Monday 05. of May 2008By: The Guardian
So what went wrong? How could it be that all those high hopes were dashed? What happened to that hunger for change? Don't worry, this is not another post-mortem examination of Labour's dismal showing in the local government...
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