STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [Via Communist Internet... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] . . ----- Original Message ----- From: Downwithcapitalism <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 1:06 AM Subject: [downwithcapitalism] UNICEF: fall of wall has harmed children Radio Habana Cuba. 19 June 2001. Transition from socialism means suffering for children. STOCKHOLM --Crushing poverty, the rapid spread of AIDS and overwhelming unemployment that reaches over 50% in some regions has affected some 150 million children and youth in 27 countries in transition across Eastern and Central Europe, reports the United Nations Childrens Fund. In a conference entitled "A Generation in Peril" organized in Stockholm to address the issue, UNICEF reported that 60 million children live in poverty, 18 million young people are without employment, 1.5 million children are housed in public institutions, and 700,000 suffer from HIV/AIDS. Of this last group, a full 50% contracted the virus before the the age of 25. Millions of children are displaced by conflicts occurring in their regions and are thus especially vulnerable to sexual exploitation, extreme violence, crime, drug and alcohol abuse, and suicide. The radical reforms that have come in the wake of major transitions since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 have had a major negative impact on those living beneath the poverty line across the former Eastern block and Baltic countries. One of the greatest problems has been the inequality of schooling based on ethnic origin, class and gender. After more than a decade of transition it has become clear, says UNICEF, that many of these nations are simply unable or unwilling to care for the millions who fall through the cracks in their weakened social systems. The UNICEF conference is designed as a precursor to the special UN session in September that will address the objectives set forth in the World Children's Summit ten years ago. * * * * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
