Children Around the World

A child injured in a string of coordinated bomb attacks near the site of a blast in New Delhi on September 14. Indian police are hunting for Muslim militants behind the coordinated bomb attacks that rocked busy shopping areas in the nation’s capital leaving 20 dead and close to 100 injured.

Photo:Manpreet Romana/AFP

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A malnourished baby cries in his mother’s lap near Sheshemene, southern Ethiopia, June 8, 2008.

REUTERS/Radu Sigheti

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File photo shows school children practicing in an earthquake drill at a Tokyo elementary school. A 7.0 magnitude earthquake has shaken northern Japan, the Japan Meteorological Agency has said and warned of mild tsunami seismic waves.

Photo:Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP

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Sudanese children drink from a metal bowl at a camp near the border with Chad. A UN human rights expert on Tuesday accused the government in Khartoum of indiscriminate bombing of civilians in Darfur and affording impunity to those who abuse human rights in the war-torn region.

Photo:Cris Bouroncle/AFP

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A Nepalese child breaks stones at a quarry on the outskirts of Kathmandu in April. Nepal’s Maoist-led government has vowed to end the practice that has seen around 150,000 bonded labourers living in virtual slavery as they struggle hopelessly to pay off the debt.

Photo:Sajjad Hussain/AFP

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Filipino Muslim children participate in a peace rally at a mosque in Taguig, a suburb of Manila. Fresh fighting erupted Monday in the southern Philippines as the Red Cross issued a funding appeal to help more than 500,000 people displaced by the decades-old Muslim separatist insurgency.

Photo:Romeo Gacad/AFP

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An Indian child waits inside a school turned into a temporary flood relief camp at Janakinagar area in Purnia district, some 480 kms northeast of Patna. India was grappling on Sunday with the task of feeding and housing close to a million villagers displaced by huge floods in the eastern state of Bihar, as the rescue effort wound down.

Photo:Diptendu Dutta/AFP

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A malnourished child at a district hospital in eastern Kenya. The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has warned that the international goal of cutting hunger by half by 2015 appears ‘even more remote’ after 75 million new people joined the ranks of the famished in 2007. Photo:Tony Karumba/AFP

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A one-year-old baby suffering from malaria is treated at a Medecins Sans Frontiere hospital in Monrovia. The World Health Organisation has warned that malaria killed nearly one million people worldwide in 2006. The WHO said children under five and African countries have borne the brunt of the disease.

Photo:Georges Gobet/AFP

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