Poverty is a major driver of child marriage.

Child poverty has also risen in many industrialized countries.

One child participant called for poverty reduction efforts to target children.

The Government of Canada has taken a comprehensive policy approach to addressing poverty, with a particular emphasis on child poverty.

Child marriage also thwarts ambitions to eliminate extreme poverty and promote gender equality.

Much public debate is devoted to child poverty and how to relieve it.

Violence against girls, forced child marriage, endemic poverty, and many other topics were examined.

The child poverty rate decreased from 17.6 percent in 2000 to 12.9 percent in 2002.

One horrifying fact is very illustrative every three seconds a child dies due to poverty.

The Government of Nova Scotia has made some important strides in addressing child poverty as part of the National Child Benefit (NCB) (see Introduction to the present report).

As an anti poverty campaign reminded us this year, a child dies somewhere in the world as a result of preventable I repeat preventable poverty every three seconds.

We are close to achieving two more goals the reduction of extreme poverty and under five child mortality rates.

The decrease in both the overall and child poverty rates can in part be attributed to the federal National Child Benefit and Newfoundland and Labrador Child Benefit programs and initiatives that reduce reliance on income support and increase attachment to the labour market.

56), while problems such as armed conflict, child labour, child trafficking and HIV AIDS created serious impediments, investing in basic education was clearly a major preventive measure against HIV AIDS and child labour and was central to winning the fight against poverty.

Additionally, poverty, religion, tradition, and conflict make the rate of child marriage in Sub Saharan Africa very high in some regions.

Since 2000, the overall child poverty rates for Newfoundland and Labrador have decreased both on a before and after tax basis.

The strategy recognized that child labour was inextricably linked with poverty and illiteracy and could not be solved by legislation alone.

Focus area 5 will strengthen UNICEF knowledge based contributions to reducing child poverty, including through enhanced advocacy, partnerships and engagement with PRSs, and will thus support child specific dimensions of Goals 1 and 8.

This program, financed from additional revenues generated by earlier reforms, is the poster child for the ruling party s commitment to ending poverty.

Poverty, infant mortality, unemployment, morbidity, suicide, criminal detention, abuse of women and child prostitution are issues of particular concern to the communities.

Globalisation produced its own domino effect. The dominoes toppled GDP rose millions were lifted out of poverty literacy rates soared child mortality figures fell.

These achievements would contribute to enhancing economic growth and reducing poverty, reducing child mortality and improving maternal health, and reducing the spread of HIV.

Cuts to child allowances and unemployment pay have caused a consistent rise in the poverty rate, and government income transfers designed to combat it make an even smaller dent in poverty now than they did in the 1980s.

The next programme would focus on child poverty, the allocation of resources for children, and migration and children implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and special protection concerns, among them trafficking, violence and armed conflict.

UFER actively follows the work of the Committee on the Rights of the Child and all matters related to efforts to combat racism and poverty.

Important elements of Goal 1 (Eradicating Extreme Poverty and Hunger) will be addressed through specific organizational targets, such as those addressing child and maternal malnutrition.

Child labour, child kidnapping, child trafficking

At the same time, it should be recognized that acts in violation of the rights of the child such as war and armed conflicts, poverty, diseases, violence, sexual abuse, exploitation and terrorism continued to undermine the rights of the child.

NEW YORK Growing up as a child during the Korean War, I knew poverty first hand. I saw it around me every day I lived it.

Reducing road traffic accidents is important for poverty eradication, the reduction of child mortality and sustainable development and should receive great attention from the international community.

Poverty rates had fallen from over 70 per cent in 1971 to less than 42 per cent in 2004, and child mortality had been substantially reduced.

Indian poverty reduction has been significant, but not substantial. However, in terms of non income indicators of poverty for example, child mortality, malnutrition, and school dropouts India s performance has been dismal (in some respects worse even than in sub Saharan Africa).

Without these resources, if she has not already succumbed to birthing complications, a woman cannot survive the perils of poverty and hunger and support her child simultaneously.

Reducing road traffic injuries is important to the successful achievement of several of the Millennium Development Goals, particularly those related to poverty, child mortality reduction and environmental sustainability.

About half of them are expected to miss at least one of the Millennium Development Goals, especially those relating to poverty, child mortality, maternal mortality and HIV AIDS.

Analysis of labour income data and National Child Benefit simulations indicate the both the depth and incidence of poverty have declined substantially over the period from 1999 2003.

Specifically why do we find children from specific indigenous groups in certain sectors of child labour? To what extent do poverty factors prevail over tradition and cultural factors?

Similarly, improvements in education, particularly of girls, would contribute to reducing poverty, hunger, child and maternal mortality, and the spread of HIV, as well as promote gender equality.

The key areas addressed in this report are as follows social policy issues, employment, poverty, homelessness, health care, disability issues, early childhood development and child care, and family violence.

In general, expenditure aimed at alleviating poverty had increased, with welfare payments rising by three times the expected rate of inflation and pension and child benefits also rising substantially.

However, if Mali were to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by the 2015 deadline, much more would need to be done to reduce maternal and child mortality rates and poverty.

Look here you have to end poverty, child and maternal health, control infections, protect the environment and get the good global links between nations in every aspect from aid to trade.

None of it helps to address the underlying problems of poverty, child mortality, water scarcity, and lack of livelihoods in places like Pakistan s Northwest Frontier Province, Sudan s Darfur region, or Somalia.

We feel an especially strong sense of urgency as we approach the deadline of 2015 for achieving the Millennium Development Goals, which aim to reduce extreme poverty, hunger, and child mortality.

(a) Take all necessary measures to the maximum extent of available resources to accelerate the elimination of child poverty, notably to eliminate the disparities between the different regions of the country