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World News tagged with sadness

Yemeni Girl, 12, Dies in Painful Childbirth
World  (tags: society, AMMAN, Jordan, Child brides, children, death, HumanRights, Childrens rights, sadness, ethics, freedoms )

Dee
- 55 days ago - cnn.com
AMMAN, Jordan (CNN) -- A 12-year-old Yemeni girl, who was forced into marriage, died during a painful childbirth that also killed her baby, a children's rights group said Monday.
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Pakistan Food Stampede Kills Many
World  (tags: Pakistan, food, free flour, distribution, unsupervised crowd, crushed, death, sadness )

Dee
- 55 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
At least 14 women and children have been killed in a stampede to get free flour in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, officials say.
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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
- 82 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).
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Director of Children's Charity, Husband Found Shot to Death in Chechnya
World  (tags: murder, charity, head woman, moscow, childern charity, sadness )

Lone
- 88 days ago - washingtonpost.com
The head of a children's charity in Chechnya and her husband were found shot to death in the trunk of a car Tuesday in the latest sign of violence and lawlessness in the region and the Kremlin's inability to contain it.
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Corazon Aquino Dies at 76; Restored Democracy to the Philippines
World  (tags: president, death, philippines, sadness )

Lone
- 100 days ago - latimes.com
Reporting from Seoul and Manila -- Corazon C. Aquino, the unassuming housewife who toppled a dictator and restored democracy to the Philippines as its 11th president, has died. She was 76.
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Police Identify 7 Slain Women Found in February
World  (tags: government, New Mexico, police, crime, death, murder, drugs, prostitution, women, sadness )

Dee
- 123 days ago - cnn.com
(CNN) -- New Mexico authorities have identified seven of 11 slain women whose remains were discovered several months ago in shallow graves in west Albuquerque, but have yet to identify a suspect in their killings, police told CNN on Thursday.
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9 More Charged in Mexico Day-Care Fire
World  (tags: Mexico, public officials, government, Daycare fire, children, death, crime, suffering, sadness, corruption, neglect )

Dee
- 125 days ago - edition.cnn.com
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN) -- Arrest warrants have been issued for another nine people associated with a fire at a day-care center in northwestern Mexico in June that killed 48 children, the state-run Notimex news agency said Saturday.
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Mexico Investigators Search for 9 in Day Care Fire That Killed 47 Children
World  (tags: government, Mexico City, Day Care fire, children, death, crime, Arrests, Wanted, Search, missing, corruption, investigation, dishonesty, sadness )

Dee
- 133 days ago - timesdispatch.com
MEXICO CITY -- Investigators on Tuesday were searching for nine officials wanted in a day care fire that killed 47 children in northern Mexico, a day after nine others were arrested on negligent homicide charges.
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~Take Action~ 25,000 Children Are Forced Into Marriage Everyday
World  (tags: children, abuse, corruption, crime, culture, education, government, humans, rights, sadness, safety, society, politics, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', world )

Barb
- 160 days ago - care2.com
Building on the conference's success, our goal now is to make sure every member of Congress becomes a supporter of the child marriage law. Please, send a quick note to your elected officials encouraging them to stand up for girls' rights. That action...
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Sign Petition: End Child Trafficking, Exploitation in Haiti
World  (tags: world, haiti, children, victims, prostitutes, sexual, abuse, violence, child, slavery, poverty, hunger, crime, freedoms, family, culture, society, rights, safety, sadness, abuse )

Tom
- 178 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
With 80 percent of Haitians living in poverty -- and half of them on less than a dollar a day -- a huge number of children are forced to work against their will in homes, fields, gangs and as prostitutes. As many as 200,000 children are victims.
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ON THIS DAY - 1993: Two Boys Charged With Toddler's Murder
World  (tags: on this day, england, liverpool, uk, james bulger, murder, sadness, child, toddler, children )

Chrissy
- 262 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Two 10-year-old boys have been charged with the abduction and murder of two-year-old James Bulger in Liverpool. The toddler went missing from the Strand Shopping Centre in Bootle last Friday and his body was found on a railway embankment less than three m
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ON THIS DAY - 1996: Bomb Blast Destroys London Bus
World  (tags: on this day, england, london, bomb, terrorism, deaths, sadness )

Chrissy
- 263 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Three people are feared dead and eight have been hurt after a bomb exploded on a double decker bus in the heart of London's West End. The front of the bus was destroyed by the force of the blast on the Aldwych near the Strand.
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'House of Horror' Children Never Saw Daylight
World  (tags: 'HUMANRIGHTS!', children, crime, Austria, Slavery, Sadness, Abuse )

Dana
- 560 days ago - cnn.com
Story Highlights Father says he held daughter prisoner for nearly 24 years, fathered 7 children NEW: Police say Josef Fritzl forced her to write letter saying she had run away The daughter, now 42, has been missing since 1984, when she was 18
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SERIOUSLY, THIS IS FROM A CARE2 FRIEND:
World  (tags: sadness, safety, society, family, news, humans, children, safety, children, humans, society, investigation, children )

Poetic
- 560 days ago - dingo.care2.com
I received the message seen in below comment from a friend I trust. Please pass it on if you could. Thank you in advance. PW
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Our Primary Mission Is to Assist the Cultural Survival of the Tibetan People Through Health, Technological and Educational Proje
World  (tags: children, culture, ethics, death, celebrity, religion, rights, sadness, society, violence, tibet, terrorism, conflict, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', freedoms )

Ginger
- 564 days ago - gerefoundation.org
Healing the Divide, the public arm of Gere Foundation, is working across a wide range of issues: from the growing HIV/AIDS crisis in Asia to the need for prison reform and effective post-release programs in the U.S., from poverty alleviation, .....
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