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...age of five and more than 80% of children now attend primary school. Elizabeth Gibbons, deputy director of the UN children's agency Unicef, said the impact of the convention on children's lives was clear. "At any time across the world, in...

In this article: UN, Everychild, Convention on the Rights of the Child, Somalia, US, and Russia

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - UNICEF urged the world to help the 1 billion children still deprived of food, shelter, clean water or health care - and the hundreds of millions more threatened by violence - two decades after the U.N. adopted a treaty...

In this article: Ann Veneman, Unicef, United States, Protection From Abuse, Susan Rice, Lord's Resistance Army, and Convention on the Rights of the Child

UNITED NATIONS -- Twenty years after the U.N. adopted a treaty guaranteeing children's rights, 1 billion children are still deprived of food, shelter or clean water, and nearly 200 million are chronically malnourished, UNICEF said...

In this article: Ann Veneman, Unicef, United States, Susan Rice, Convention on the Rights of the Child, Measles, Malaria, HIV, and Barack Obama

...they also need to keep Moscow and Beijing on board to send a clear signal to Tehran that the world's big powers are united against it. The United States and its Western allies fear Tehran is covertly seeking atomic weapons, a charge Iran...

In this article: Iran, Tehran, Liquefied natural gas, Barack Obama, Uranium, Security Council, United States, Russia, and European Union

...nuclear weapons. Instead Manochehr Mottaki said Iran would consider a nuclear swap inside Iran as an alternative plan. The United Nations last month offered a deal to take 70 percent of Iran's low-enriched uranium to reduce its...

In this article: Uranium, Iran, Tehran, Hillary Clinton, U.S., Russia, and France

...declaration does not contain any quantified objectives, nor any precise deadline," said Diouf shortly before a final news conference. The United Nations had hoped the summit would commit to eradicating hunger by 2025. Oxfam joined a loud...

In this article: Oxfam, Jacques Diouf, Rome, Food and Agriculture Organization, World Food Program, Silvio Berlusconi, and Ethiopia