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Ethiopia: Signs of Hope for Ethiopia's Children
World  Kelli - 15 hours ago - allafrica.com Amid the hardship facing Ethiopia's children, there are signs that conditions may be improving and that children's lives are changing for the better.
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 World Kelli - 2 days ago - tonymartin.ca Sign this petition to the Prime Minister, HRDC Minister and the 12 Members of Parliament on the HUMA Committee currently studying the federal role in reducing poverty in Canada. (there was all-party agreement for this study). Summer is a good time to tell
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 World Kelli - 2 days ago - one.org 2008 can be the year that both political parties make the struggle to end global poverty a policy priority. Senators Tom Daschle and Bill Frist will deliver your petition to the party platform committees when they meet with them, so don't miss the chance
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 World  Ombretta - 3 days ago - nytimes.com "Restaveks" is the term for children of destitute Haitian families who are farmed out to the more affluent to act as servants & housekeepers in exchange for shelter, food & schooling. Activists, however, say these children are often treated as slaves.
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 World Kelli - 4 days ago - childwitches.blogspot.com The Jigawa Summit, if it achieves its objectives, will become the best platform for constructing a new approach to begin to eradicate poverty; its salient feature is that it disavows the top-to-bottom approach that has not significantly achieved much for
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 World  Ben - 17 days ago - freedomfromhunger.org As the world is gripped by the Global Hunger Crisis, it's up to people like You to make a difference.
Let us put an end to hunger once and for all!
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It's Young Lives That Count, Not Numbers | All Out on Poverty | The Guardian
World Kelli - 20 days ago - guardian.co.uk Until three years ago, 15-year-old Sunita Choudhary had never seen a classroom. She'd been kept in the kitchen of a wealthy family in her native Nepal, where she cooked and cleaned for £19 a year.
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 World Ben - 31 days ago - aneki.com Malawi, Somalia, Afghanistan, Burundi, Tanzania...
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1 Million Homeless in Haiti
World  Leigh - 31 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk The Hurricanes and tropical storms have added to the suffering in Haiti: More than 500 have died, thousands are injured and 1 million are now homeless. Food is scarce and many are starving. fotcoh.org is trying to help.
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 World Kelli - 35 days ago - childwitches.blogspot.com Around the world an estimated 3,500 girls under the age of 15 become child brides every day, while another 21,000 get married before reaching the age of 18.
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U.N.: Nations Not Doing Enough on Poverty
World  Cal - 38 days ago - msnbc.msn.com Criticism is aimed primarily at the United States, Japan and EU
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Global Food Crisis 2008
World  Ken - 53 days ago - globalissues.org Food prices have been rising for a while. In some countries this has resulted in food riots and in the case of Haiti where food prices increased by 50-100%, the Prime Minister was forced out of office. Elsewhere people have been killed, and . . .
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 World Kelli - 54 days ago - dailytimes.com.pk KARACHI: 'The Dark Alley', the annual report issued by the Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (SPARC) reveals that, despite tall claims by the government suggesting the contrary, child abuses cases are on the rise in Pakistan. According
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 World Kelli - 54 days ago - tribune.com.ng The act of child trafficking in Nigeria and West Africa in general, has become a common phenomenon, which involves young boys and girls on the average age of 15 years.
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 World  Ananya - 76 days ago - money.co.uk The average trip to the supermarket is costing much more than before - which means that some people have been forced to drastically cut back on their food consumption.
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