Unicef Says a Billion Children Now Suffer Deprivation Worldwide
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From the New York Times -- In 2004, the Unicef report, "Childhood Under Threat", reports that out of the 2.2 billion children in the world, 640 million live in houses that are overcrowded or have mud floors, and 120 million (a majority of them girls) do not attend primary school. 1 in 6 children in developing countries are severely hungry, 1 in 7 do not have access to health care, 1 in 5 have no access to safe water and 1 in 3 have no toilet at home. 29,000 children die every day from mainly preventable causes, while 2 million are employed in the sex industry and 1.2 million are trafficked.
“ While there have been gains in reducing the death rates of young children and in increasing the number of children in school, the report said that some of the progress made over the past decade and a half had been offset by the toll taken by AIDS and H.I.V., the virus that causes it, and wars, particularly the 55 civil wars since 1990. ”
