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1.	Somalia: With the support of local elders UNICEF feeds 44,000 children
	Author: UNICEF, Nairobi	Date Written: 14 May 2008
	Primary Category: Youth & Children	Document Origin: UNICEF Press Centre
	Secondary Category: -none-	Source URL: http://www.unicef.org/media
	Key Words: Somalia, supplementary feeding of children, drought,
	Summary & Comment: As the drought worsens and thousands are displaced due to conflict, soaring food prices have made it necessary to provide supplementary feeding for 44,000 children under five years of age. JDN
2.	Cameroon: Two months after riots, children remain in prison
	Author: IRIN, Douala	Date Written: 13 May 2008
	Primary Category: Youth & Children	Document Origin: IRIN News
	Secondary Category: Western Region	Source URL: http://www.irinnews.org/
	Key Words: Cameroon, children, human rights
	Summary & Comment: The crowded central prison in Douala is still holding children under the age of 18 alongside the adult prisoners. They were arrested during riots over high food prices in February. Some have still not been tried. JDN
3.	Tax evasion "costs the lives of 1,000 children a day"
	Author: Christian Aid, London	Date Written: 12 May 2008
	Primary Category: Youth & Children	Document Origin: Ekklesia
	Secondary Category: -none-	Source URL: http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/
	Key Words: Christian Aid, death and taxes, developing countries
	Summary & Comment: A Christian Aid report "Death and taxes: the true toll of tax dodging", reports that the money from companies using false accounting to reduce tax liability could save the lives of thousands of children under the age of five each year. The report calls on the UK government to take an international lead to press for reform. JDN
4.	May 7th is World AIDS Orphan Day
	Author: Joe De Capua, Washington	Date Written: 8 May 2008
	Primary Category: Youth & Children	Document Origin: VOA
	Secondary Category: -none-	Source URL: http://www.worldaidsorphans.org
	Key Words: Global, AIDS orphans, funding,
	Summary & Comment: Worldwide there is a new AIDS orphan approximately every 15 seconds. A grassroots campaign that began with a demonstration on Wall Street in 2002 calls on donor countries to use at least 10 percent of their AIDS funding for orphans and vulnerable children. JDN
5.	Burkina Faso: Fresh approach to street children
	Author: IRIN, Ouagadougou	Date Written: 8 May 2008
	Primary Category: Youth & Children	Document Origin: IRIN News
	Secondary Category: Western Region	Source URL: http://www.irinnews.org/
	Key Words: Burkina Faso, street kids, gender issue
	Summary & Comment: In Burkina Faso the government and NGOs are taking a proactive approach by paying school fees, providing food, and creating community activities for children and hope to keep them off the street. JDN
6.	South Africa: Generation Y must ask "Why?"
	Author: Opinion, Zengeziwe Msimang, Johannesburg	Date Written: 8 May 2008
	Primary Category: Youth & Children	Document Origin: Mail&Guardian
	Secondary Category: Southern Region	Source URL:
	Key Words: South Africa, youth, freedom, human rights
	Summary & Comment: The author is one of the "Y" generation who grew up asking "Why?; but she feels they have lost their way and become too attached to the "right to have" rather than working to move South Africa to the next level of development for all. JDN
7.	State of the world’s mothers 2008: Closing the survival gap for children under 5
	Author: CRIN No.981, May 8, 2008	Date Written: 8 May 2008
	Primary Category: Youth & Children	Document Origin: CRIN No.981, May 8, 2008 Child Rights Information Network
	Secondary Category: -none-	Source URL: http://www.crin.org/
	Key Words: global, child survival, poverty, basic health care
	Summary & Comment: Worldwide more than 200 million children under age 5 do not get basic health care when they need it. Every year, 2 million newborn babies die on the day they are born. JDN

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