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Protect Children From Crisis
World  (tags: children, government, health, education, families, poverty )

Kelli
- 5 days ago - straitstimes.com
UNITED NATIONS- UN OFFICIALS on Thursday urged cash-strapped governments not to cut back spending on health and education, warning it could drive millions of children and families into the poverty trap.
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Eyewitness: Guatemala Food Crisis
World  (tags: Guatemala, government, children, families, malnutrition, food shortages, hunger, HumanRights )

Dee
- 71 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Guatemala has been hit by severe food shortages, with some 54,000 families living in the east of the country facing a critical situation.
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Obama on 9/11: 'No Words Can Ease the Ache of Your Hearts'
World  (tags: President Obama, 9/11, Pentagon, families, survivors.laid wreath )

Rosemary
- 74 days ago - cnn.com
NEW YORK (CNN) -- President Obama spoke at the Pentagon on Friday to those who lost loved ones on September 11, 2001, telling them no words would heal their pain yet calling for a renewed resolve against the ones who attacked the country eight years ago.
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Sign Petition: Tell Congress to End Child Hunger
World  (tags: world, global, crisis, poor, children, families, food, security, act, starvation, disease, health, nutrition, illness, humans, death, society, malnutrition, poverty, sadness )

Tom
- 98 days ago - action.savethechildren.org
The global food crisis may be out of the headlines for the moment, but for poor children and families, the emergency remains urgent and real. Please co-sponsor the The Roadmap to End Global Hunger and Promote Food Security Act of 2009 (H.R. 2817).
30 comments
Al Jazeera - Focus - Ending Violence Against Women
World  (tags: World, International Women's Day, CEDAW, discrimination, women, rights, freedom, poverty, violence, honor killings, stoning, lashing, slavery, crime, safety, oppression, voting, work, education, health, families, children )

Tom
- 260 days ago - english.aljazeera.net
In many countries women are active participants in the political process and have made progress toward economic equality. However, women's rights to life, to physical integrity, to health, education and freedom from violence, remains largely unfulfilled.
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International Women's Day: Crisis of Poverty and Violence
World  (tags: International Women's Day, women, rights, freedom, poverty, violence, crime, safety, oppression, voting, work, education, health, families, children, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India )

Tom
- 260 days ago - straitstimes.com
While women from Australia to Liberia gathered to hail achievements and to campaign on issues such as work equality, voting rights and abortion access, there was little to celebrate for the female population in many parts of the world.
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Guatemala : The Secret Files / How Silicon Valley Nonprofit Helped Uncover Dirty War
World  (tags: Guatemala, human rights abuses, politicide, 45, 000 people, disappeared, Guatemalan police, archive project, human rights activists, lawyers, prosecutors, families, victims, Benetech, nonprofit, human rights software, President Alvaro Colom )

Alba
- 516 days ago - pbs.org
Founded to provide high-tech solutions to humanitarian problems, Benetech worked wi human rights activists to preserve/analyze 80M pgs police records, getting info families & human rights prosecutors'd hoped to find. Video + text + interactive timeline
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Kenya: 420 Children Yet to Trace Families
World  (tags: children, displacement, food, starving, families, Kenya, world, efforts being made, by Kenya Red Cross Society [KRCS] )

Dr Kathi
- 639 days ago - allafrica.com
420 Children in Kenya have NOT found their Families, most of them are younger than 5 yrs old. 300,000 still displaced due to lack of safety. Plus, there are 2,000 people in Turkana District that may starve to death. They need food & other necessities
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Tell Congress to Support Education for All
World  (tags: education, lesislation, girls, women, families, world, end poverty, children )

Lauren
- 681 days ago - care.org
Providing basic education to girls has tremendous positive effects in areas like public health and economic growth. Over the years, the benefits reach families, communities and countries as a whole.
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TAKE ACTION Tell Congress to Support Food Aid That Makes Sense for the World's Poor
World  (tags: sustainability, food, hunger relief, poor, poverty, starvation, malnutrition, usa, world, children, families )

Lauren
- 681 days ago - care.org
Ask your representative to provide more cash directly to food assistance programs and more flexibility by allowing humanitarian organizations to buy food locally or regionally in the 2007 Farm Bill instead of increasing the level of food commodities for m
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Sign the Petition to Protect - and Help Millions in Darfur
World  (tags: Darfur, Africa, world, peace, war, help, take action, petition, women, children, boys, families, death, crime, war, violence )

Lauren
- 681 days ago - care.org
Over 2 million people have been displaced and more than 200,000 have been killed while the world watches. This needs to end. We must reverse the tide of violence in Darfur. PLEASE SIGN
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World  (tags: CARE.org, education, liberation, girls, women, families, epowerment, GOOD NEWS )

Lauren
- 681 days ago - my.care.org
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UNICEF Supports Rainwater Harvesting for Families on Remote Islands in Indonesia
World  (tags: children, world, water, families, UNICEF, climate change )


- 710 days ago - unicef.org
ALOR, Indonesia, 14 December 2007 - The island of Alor is just two short flights away from Bali, and yet it's a world away when it comes to the most basic of life's necessities: clean drinking water. Climate change experts warn that the problem could get
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