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Breaking News Fri, 30 Jul 2010
Novartis headquarters in Basel
Drug   Health   Kids   Photos   Wikipedia: Novartis  
 The New York Times 
Novartis Plans Giveaway of New Children's Medicine
| The Swiss drug giant Novartis plans to give away up to 250,000 bottles of its new liquid children’s medicine, Triaminic Fever Reducer Pain Reliever, in an effort to woo parents frustrated by a... (photo: Creative Commons)
At last, building a better, safer world for children
Children   Parents   Photos   Science   Talks  
 Khaleej Times 
At last, building a better, safer world for children
WE live in exciting times. I am not talking about the advances of medicine, science and engineering. Nor the growth of the internet, the mobile phone and the fact that Africa is the world's fastest gr... (photo: WN / marzena)
Get children organized with fun summer recycling projects  The Examiner 
Get children organized with fun summer recycling projects
| Have fun with your kids and teach them about recycling at the same time.daretodream.com photo Related articlesOrganize to reduce, reuse, and recycle Organize to reduce, reuse, and recycle It's ... (photo: WN / marzena)
Children   Kids   Photos   Projects   Recycling  
Jobless   -  Homeless  -  Poverty  London Evening Standard 
The Dispossessed: Deep in debt and struggling to raise her family, the Treasury cleaner on 'poverty wage'
Mother-of-three Sandra Sanchez is one of London's working poor. The Treasury cleaner has never claimed the dole but her low wage leaves her behind on her rent and struggling to pay the interest on her... (photo: WN / Trigedia)
Debt   Family   Photos   Wage   Wikipedia: poverty  
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Slums- People living below poverty line- India Khaleej Times
Poverty haunts India's economic miracle
ZARUA, India ' When flames from an open cooking fire raced through Fida Hussein's shack in northern India, it was a disaster for him and his poverty-stricken family. | "W... (photo: WN / Aruna Mirasdar)
Cooking   Haunts   India   Photos   Wikipedia: Poverty  
Poverty: An Indian poor woman carrying a big plastic bag, near Dharamshala, India GroundReport
GDP growth with growing poverty
|   | The forecasts for India’s high economic growth have been coming thick and fast. Only late last year the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Cooperation... (photo: WN / Yeshe Choesang)
Economy   India   Photos   Poverty   Wikipedia: Gross domestic product  
A blind man begs on a street in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009. Large pockets of extreme poverty and hunger persist in Asia, where the global downturn makes it more difficult to achieve U.N. goals to reduce the ranks of the poor, the Asian Development Bank said Wednesday. The Times Of India
Poverty haunts India's economic miracle
When flames from an open cooking fire raced through Fida Hussein's shack in northern India, it was a disaster for him and his poverty-stricken family. | "We have nothing,... (photo: AP / Mustafa Quraishi)
Economy   India   Photos   Poverty   Wikipedia: Poverty in India  
Israeli children take cover in a classroom during an air raid siren drill at Gordon school in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, May 26, 2010. Al Jazeera
Israel's 'illegal' children
| For most children summer is a carefree time. But for the children of Israel's undocumented migrant workers, deportation looms on the horizon. | It has been a hotly... (photo: AP / Oded Balilty)
Deportation   Immigrants   Israel   Photos   Wikipedia: Illegal immigration  
US actress and human rights activist Mia Farrow  and Mahmud Qabil  , during her visit to Rafah town the southern Gaza Strip , October 15, 2009.Farrow is on a 4-day visit to Israel, West bank and Gaza as a good will ambassador of UNICEF. (photo by Ahmed Deeb/ WN) Denver Post
Mia Farrow meets children of war in Uganda
| Click photo to enlargeUNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, US actress Mia Farrow with a group of Karimojong children at a Tokul near the town of Kitodo, in the far north west of... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb)
Actress   Hollywood   Photos   Star  
Children in Benin who were branded as witches for their "abnormal" births (file photo) IRINnews
AFRICA: Child witchcraft allegations on the rise
web | DAKAR, 16 July 2010 (IRIN) - Accusations of child witchcraft are on the rise in sub-Saharan Africa - spurred on by urbanization, poverty, conflict and fragmenting c... (photo: IRIN)
Africa   Children   Human Rights   Photos   Wikipedia: Witchcraft  
Beggar women sit on a street in a scorching heat, Pune, India Deccan Herald
A shining India can’t mask its poverty worse than Africa’s
By Colin Todhunter | Remember the ‘India shining’ slogan in 2003/2004? Parts of India were indeed shining, and the government at the time spent around Rs 100 crore tellin... (photo: WN / Geeta)
Africa   India   Photos   Poverty   Wikipedia: Economy of India  
Poverty - poor kids are playing in front of their house, India The Hindu
Poverty more in India than sub-Saharan Africa
| Jason Burke | Madhya Pradesh, Democratic Republic of Congo show near identical poverty level | India ranks 63rd in the new poverty index, after Togo, before Haiti | Qua... (photo: WN / Geeta)
Africa   India   Photos   Poverty   Wikipedia: Poverty in India  
Human Rights Watch Aids
- Slumbering law
- City that chose to outsource everything
- Trying to Spread Africa's Wealth
- Sarkozy threatens immigrants who target police
An unidentified man stands near a gas flare belonging to the Agip Oil company in Idu Ogba, Niger Delta area of Nigeria, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2006. OPEC and the European Union agreed in Vienna Wednesday to maintain a close "energy dialogue," stressing the importance of working together to help stabilize and secure the world's oil markets. Edmund Daukoru, Nigeria's oil minister and president of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, met with Martin Bartenstein, the energy minister of Austria, which holds the EU's rotating presidency. In a statement, the EU presidency said both reaffirmed the need to stay in close touch on energy issues.
Trying to Spread Africa's Wealth
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- APNewsBreak: 4 Positive Tests of St. Louis Vets
- APNewsBreak: 4 positive tests of St. Louis vets
- Quraishi becomes first Muslim CEC
- N.J. says AIDS patients won't lose coverage
Studies recommend repeat HIV testing during pregnancy to prevent mother-to-child transmission
Newnan, Georgia man discovers natural treatment for HIV-positive children.
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ReliefWeb Refugees
- UN rushing aid to flood-stricken areas of north-western DR C
- Republicans Block Bill to Aid Small Business
- Republicans Block Bill to Aid Small Business
- Republicans Block Bill to Aid Small Business
poor residential area in Pune - India
It's India's poor who need British aid, not its military and business elites
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- Harawira smartens up his act
- Sarkozy threatens immigrants who target police
- Feds arrest Polish immigrant in NM smuggling case
- UN agencies step up efforts as Pakistani floods affect nearl
A member of a Romany association, Alice Januel, displays an official document which authorizes French Romanies to travel with their caravan, during a press conference with members of different French Roma associations in Saint Ouen north of Paris, Tuesday, July 27, 2010.
Sarkozy Toughens on Illegal Roma
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Education Aid
- Holistic education center changes the game in New Orleans
- Wake officials seek public comment on proposed school assign
- The New Republic: Defending Obama's Education Plan
- Foreign Office spent £13 million on private school fees
The Union Minister of Human Resource Development, Shri Kapil Sibal briefing the media after the 11th Meeting of the National Literacy Mission Authority, in New Delhi on August 21, 2009.
Vocational education will lead to inclusive education: Kapil Sibal
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- UN rushing aid to flood-stricken areas of north-western DR C
- Plan to Aid 9/11 Victims Is Rejected in House
- Aide: Pitino gave him $3,000 for pregnant woman
- N.J. says AIDS patients won't lose coverage
poor residential area in Pune - India
It's India's poor who need British aid, not its military and business elites
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Homelessness Child trafficking
- A homeless with stolen identity goes on ambulance
- 4 Dallas proposals to house homeless fail to win state tax c
- Homelessness in Montana
- Homeless Ind. students up 26 percent since 2006-07
a child girl with her father returning from school
Children and Money
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- Campaign highlights NZ child sexual exploitation
- U.S. Couple Refutes ACFI Child Trafficking Allegation
- Child Labour Or Child Favour
- Child trafficking: Police to arrest transport owners
Marks & Spencer shop at a shopping mall in Pune-apparel shop-India
Indian apparel exporters jittery over US allegations of child labour
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