Nutrition and Human Rights
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“The world is failing children by not ensuring they have enough to eat, says the UN Children's Fund (Unicef), May 02 , 2006. It says the number of children under five who are underweight has remained virtually unchanged since 1990, despite a target to reduce the number affected” BBC May 02, 2006. Half of all the under-nourished children in the world live in South Asia (India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan) Unicef has reported. And it also adds that poor nutrition contributes to about 5.6 million child deaths per year, more than half the total.
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