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Young people lobby UN not to abandon disabled children
13 Feb 2006 News
Summary: Disabled young people from the UK, Bangladesh and China are today addressing the United Nations in New York in a...
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'Rubel says': children's participation at the 7th meeting of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Disability Convention
13 Feb 2006 News
Summary: Rubel, from Bangladesh, explains that the group of children he belonged to addressed the Committee to talk about...
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Kenyan children most at risk as drought crisis deepens
10 Feb 2006 News
Summary: Drought is ravaging central Africa as the November 2005 long rains failed to arrive. Over 3.5 million people in...
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India: Comics and HIV/AIDS
6 Feb 2006 News
Summary: Save the Children organised the comics workshop with children from CPD (Children's partnership in development...
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London youth win a grant to develop safe play in their community
3 Feb 2006 News
Summary: Save the Children and British Gas have awarded 28 year-old Charles Kirigwajjo a grant to improve Basketball...
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SUDAN: Save the Children UK statement on Darfur (26 January 2006)
26 Jan 2006 News
Summary: It has been 3 years since the violence against civilians has uprooted millions of people in Darfur, yet the...
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INDIA: Five years on from the Gujarat earthquake (24 January 2006)
25 Jan 2006 News
Summary: On the 26 January 2001, an earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale devastated five districts in the state...
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ASIA TSUNAMI: Urgent need for improved shelters as quake-hit families endure winter in tents (23 January 2006)
23 Jan 2006 News
Summary: International donors must recognise the clear and urgent need for more permanent shelter for earthquake-affected...
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ASIA EARTHQUAKE: 3 months on, conditions in earthquake-hit region go from bad to worse (6 January 2006)
12 Jan 2006 News
Summary: Children and their families living in the earthquake-hit areas of Pakistan and India are facing ever more extreme...
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ARTICLE: A New Human Rights Treaty for People with Disabilities (8 September 2005)
9 Jan 2006 News
Summary: As a new UN Convention for people with disabilities is being drafted, Gerison Lansdown looks at the how children...
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