Nepal is due to become a republic and end 240 years of royal rule.
A newly-elected assembly is meeting in Kathmandu to discuss abolishing the monarchy. Voting is under way, after being delayed for several hours.
The author of a joint Save the Children/UN report on the subject in 2002, said she was "shocked" that the latest findings suggested little progress in the past six years.
"Today's report is almost identical to the one I wrote six years ago."
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) says children in Afghanistan suffer more than in any other country in the world from violence, war and poverty.
On Friday Israelis in war ships launched two rockets targeting Palestinian fishermen on the shore line outside the Sudaniyya seaside area of the northern Gaza Strip,the Israelis assaults continued on Saturday morning when Israeli targeted Palestinian..
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