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child malnutrition costs Philippines $7billion in a year

Child malnutrition cost the Philippines $7 billion or nearly 3 percent of its GDP in one year in terms of education spending and lost productivity, while hunger-related stunting is...

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Japan exhibition puts child prostitution in the limelight

"At that moment, I understood what it means to feel like I'd rather die," wrote a young Japanese woman, recalling the trauma she suffered as a pre-teen, over having sex with a man...

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French children return to school under police guard after summer attacks

More than 12 million French children went back to school under heightened security on Thursday after a summer vacation marked by further deadly attacks in a country that is one of...

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Laser pointers can cause irreversible vision loss for kids

 Used incorrectly, laser pointers can damage the retina of the eye and may cause some irreversible vision loss, according to researchers who treated four boys for these injuries....

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Many factors influence parental decisions about throat surgery

Better communication from doctors may help parents struggling with the decision to have their child undergo throat surgery for sleep disordered-breathing conditions, a small study...

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In 10 countries with highest out-of-school rates, 40 per cent of children are not accessing basic education

In the top 10 countries with the highest rates of children missing out on primary education, nearly 2 in every 5 children – 18 million - are out of school, UNICEF said today.

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UNICEF: Collecting water is often a colossal waste of time for women and girls

UNICEF said the 200 million hours women and girls spend every day collecting water is a colossal waste of their valuable time. As World Water Week gets underway in Stockholm and...

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Children of Syria's besieged Daraya discover joy of sweets

Yazan, a four-year-old who has never known anything but deprivation, has finally discovered the joy of ice cream after being evacuated from the besieged town of Daraya near the...

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Nearly 9,000 refugee children reported missing: report

German media reported on Monday that the number of refugee children reported as missing has doubled to reach nearly 9,000. Figures from the Federal Criminal Police Office seen by...

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Poor Children Need a New Brown v. Board of Education

The California Supreme Court announced Aug. 22 that it would not hear Vergara v. California, a landmark case fighting for the educational rights of public-school students. The court...

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iPads as effective as sedatives for children before operations

New research presented at this year's World Congress of Anaesthesiologists (WCA) in Hong Kong shows that allowing children to use iPads to distract them before surgery requiring...

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Risking it all to escape gang violence and poverty

 Every month, thousands of children from Central America risk being kidnapped, trafficked, raped, or killed as they make their way to the United States to seek refuge from brutal...

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Boko Haram violence in Lake Chad region leaves children displaced and trapped

Years of violence by Boko Haram in Africa’s Lake Chad basin have led to a worsening humanitarian crisis that has displaced 1.4 million children and left at least one million still...

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Refugee and migrant children stuck in Greece face double crisis

With the sudden increase of arrivals, hundreds more refugee and migrant children are becoming stranded in Greece with critical needs such as education and protection, says UNICEF.

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'Child sex capital of Britain': Police accused of failing to act on 150 pages of abuse claims

Police in the town of Telford, Shropshire have been strongly criticised for their lack of progress in dealing with widespread child sex abuse claims in what has been described by...

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