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UNICEF presses for education for all children
The United Nations children's agency, UNICEF, says the best way to help children cope with a dangerous world is for all governments to provide them with a basic education. "By making sure that all boys and girls get a basic education, we will not only give them a chance of growing into independent adults who can protect their own health and rights, but we will give the next generation of children a better chance of escaping a life of poverty and hardship," said UNICEF director Carol Bellamy.
UNICEF's concerns for children in developing countries are:
- Child survival
- AIDS
- War
- Malaria
- Child exploitation and insufficient investment in children
- Nearly 11,000,000 children die before age 5 each year
- Nearly 11,000,000 children die before age 5 each year
- The biggest killers--measles, malaria and diarrhea--are all preventable or treatable
- More than 50% of the world's new AIDS infections occur in people under 25
- Over 14,000,000 children have been orphaned by AIDS
- Over 11,000,000 AIDS orphans are in sub-Saharan Africa
- War has killed more than 2,000,000 children
- Since 1994, war has driven 20,000,000 from their homes
- More than 300,000 children in over 30 countries, some as young as age 8, are used as soldiers
- About 246,000,000 children are obliged to work, often in dangerous conditions
