• Unicef, the United Nations childrens' agency, based its report on 40 indicators including poverty, family, relationships and health.

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  • Of these, women are further disadvantaged due to socio-cultural and economic factors including poverty and the practice of early marriages.

    UNESCO: Alternative Community Education Programme (ACEP)

  • Mr. WILSON: Well, in many ways, you know, Dr. Fenton spoke to you and he listed reasons why African-Americans are disproportionately impacted, including poverty, city drug use and prisons.

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  • He said Russia would work with the West to help tackle terrorist financing and support networks for extremists, as well as tackling causes of terrorism, including poverty and instability.

    CNN: Putin urges global terrorism fight

  • The Conference also recommended a number of strategies to improve reporting on Caribbean regional integration and the achievement of the UN Millennium Development Goals, including poverty alleviation, to which regional governments are committed.

    UNESCO: Education

  • Sunday's forum, which will be held at Messiah College in Grantham, Pennsylvania, will allow each candidate to speak for 40 minutes on various moral issues, including poverty, global AIDS, climate change and human rights.

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  • Science, engineering and technology (SET) drives sustainable social and economic Development and is vital in addressing basic human needs including poverty reduction, emergency and disaster prevention, response and reconstruction, bridging the knowledge divide and promoting intercultural cooperation.

    UNESCO: Technology and Engineering for Development

  • It has been a personal source of irritation that so much of the debate about poverty, including among many of our churches, has been about material poverty.

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  • The great social questions of the 19th century, including wealth and poverty, prostitution, childhood mortality and philanthropy, will also be examined.

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  • Many Tunisians regard such pitched political battles as a costly distraction from more pressing issues, including the growing poverty and sense of injustice that fuelled the revolution.

    BBC: Tunisians' frustrations, two years on

  • We work closely with governments, policy makers, education leaders and many partners, including Intel, Dell, UNESCO and British Council, to transform teaching practices and education quality, deploy technology into more schools and get access to technology in the hands of more children around the world, including those in poverty-stricken communities.

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  • The startup determined seven causes of poverty, including: slavery, orphans, disaster, medical, hunger, water, and abuse.

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  • As for Bono, investing in a publication that celebrates capitalism and consumption may seem to sit awkwardly with his crusades against world poverty, including a trip to Africa with Paul O'Neill, America's treasury secretary at the time.

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  • The continued prevalence of illiteracy in the country is due to a number of socio-economic factors including high levels of poverty and the general lack of development, all of which prevents many people from gaining access to basic education.

    UNESCO: Ganokendra Model of Community Learning Centres

  • The council has set up the Infant Mortality Rate in Luton group to investigate all the causes, including links to deprivation and poverty, as well as genetic issues.

    BBC: Fifth of Luton's infant deaths linked to kin marriage

  • In Sri Lanka itself, the execution has rekindled debate about the safety of expatriate workers in the Middle East and about the poverty which drives people including Ms Nafeek to seek work abroad.

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  • Colombia still has many serious problems, including violence and a great deal of poverty, but it has remained committed to democracy and free markets.

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  • But this can actually have devastating effects on young girls' lives -- limiting their access to education and increasing their chances of poverty and health problems, including complications during child-birth.

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  • If a candidate spends more time defending tax cuts for the wealthy and saying nothing about the poor, including the growing number of children on the poverty rolls, that candidate would be hard pressed to get my vote.

    CNN: Poverty an invisible issue in GOP race

  • Some experts say these numbers just demonstrate that the stress of poverty makes everything harder in life, including personal relationships.

    NPR: Debating Marriage's Effect on Poverty

  • However people are losing their homes, they can't afford basic necessities including healthcare, and there is a lot of despair and poverty.

    BBC: Juliet Codd

  • Mr Laws told delegates it was "quite literally intolerable" that in some schools and certain areas of the country almost eight in 10 children on free school meals - a key measure of poverty - failed to get five good GCSEs, including maths and English.

    BBC: Schools told to narrow gap between rich and poor

  • Ten years ago, world leaders adopted the eight Millennium Development Goals, including a pledge to halve the proportion of people living in extreme poverty.

    UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

  • "Implementing the Cairo recommendations (including better reproductive health and moves towards gender equality) will help defeat poverty and protect the environment, " it says.

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  • People trying to raise themselves out of poverty by earning more can face effective marginal tax rates (including phase-outs of various government programs) that exceed 100%.

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  • Kano Governor Musa Rabiu Kwankwaso disputes the idea that banning the bikes is only going to deepen poverty and drive recruits into the hands of criminal groups, including Boko Haram.

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  • The generals have shown some degree of political savvy: they promise that several of Mr Thaksin's most popular programmes, including cheap health-care and a micro-loans scheme to cut rural poverty, will continue.

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  • It total, 80% of teachers surveyed said they believed poverty had a negative impact on pupils' attainment - with problems including under-achievement, not having a quiet place to study at home, inability to concentrate and lack of access to computers and the internet.

    BBC: Poverty hitting pupils' learning, survey suggests

  • The child poverty charity highlights the range of extra school expenses faced by families, including trips, swimming and music lessons.

    BBC: Families 'cannot afford school clothes'

  • Meanwhile, compromises have been sought, with some states indicating they might be open to extending Medicaid to newly eligible groups, including working-age adults with no children, up to 100% of the poverty line if those with incomes up to 138% of poverty line could instead be served using tax credits or vouchers through the health-care exchanges to be created by the new law.

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