Children In Crisis

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Children In Crisis
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UNICEF (optimist)

• A united nations organization formed to provide
  emergency food and healthcare to children
  worldwide.
• UNICEFs main 5 priorities is

Child Survival and

Development, Basic Education, And Gender Equality
(including girls' education), abuse,
exploitation, HIV/AIDS, childrens rights.
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UNICEF (pessimist)

• Some see UNICEF as a way that the UN interferes
  with developing nations.

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U5MR(pessimistic)

• Principal measure of human development used by
  UNICEF.
• Under-Five Mortality Rate- the rate at which
  children are dying under the age of five.
• In some African countries the rate is almost 50
  times higher industrialized countries.
• More than half of U5MR deaths is due to
  malnutrition.
• According to UNICEF 3 million children are dying
  a year due to poor sanitation, lack of clean
  water, diseases such as gastroenteritis, malaria,
  HIV/AIDS

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U5MR(optimistic)

• Unicef provides children with
• - Health and Nutrition
• Water and environmental sanitation
• Education
• Protection

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Children At War

• Pessimistic
• 540 million children live in dangerous
  environments
• Civil wars, land mines, ethnic cleansing.
• 300.00 children under the age of 18 engaged in
  36armed conflicts world wide.

• Optimistic
• They would like the UN convention on the rights
  of the child to disallow military recruitment
  before the age of 18.

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Working Children(pessimistic)

• Children are working to support their families at
  a young age. By begging, stealing, or selling
  sex.
• 250 million where working from ages 5-14
• Child prostitutes are at about 1 million
  worldwide.
• There are no labour laws that regulate safety
  conditions or the hours that children work

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Working Children(optimistic)

• UNICEF believes the only way we can help this
  problem is to end poverty. Depends on rich
  industrialized nations to give development aid.
• To stop the sex trade networks is to tackle the
  corruption and lack of democracy.