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36pc babies born underweight

Staff.Correspondent
About 50 percent of the children in Bangladesh are malnourished while 36 percent of the babies are bom underweight.
The country has around six million working children and about 2.5 lakh children die every year despite a significant fall in child mortality over the past one decade.
Country Representative of the
United Nations Children's Fund (Uniccf) Morten Giersing gave these figures yesterday while launching the Uniccf report on State of the World's Children (Sowc) at the Jatiya Press Club.
Uniccf Bangladesh is going to undertake a project to provide schooling to two lakh working children, he said.
Giersing made three suggestions FROM PAGE 12
to ihe government to Improve the lot of the children. They arc incorporating children’s welfare in the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper, empowerment of the local body institutions, and commitment for a fair and sound childhood to address the deprivation • of children in Bangladesh.
The global launching of the report also took place yesterday In London. Unicef Executive Director Carol Bellamy launched the report with the theme 'Childhood UnderThreat’
At least half of the 2.2 billion children in the world at present are deprived of one or more prerequi sites of a sound childhood and about half of the civilians killed in wars and conflicts are children, Giersing mentioned.
The extreme nature of deprivation of children is determined try the extent of their access to shelter, sanitation, safe water, nutrition, healthcare, education and Informa tion, Unicef said.
In the South Asian region, 61 percent children are deprived of sanitation facilities while 45 percent are deprived of shelter.
TWenty-eight percent children in the region do not have access to information. 24 percent have no access to required nutrition, 23 percent lacks access to healthcare, 19
percent to education and 18 percent to safe water.
The number of children who died before their fifth birthday across the world was 1.6 crore in 2003, according to Unicef findings.
Unicef defines child as one aged notabove 18.
More than 16 percent children aged below five in the developed world are also deprived of required nutrition and 13 percent of all the children have never gone to school, thcSowc report said.
Around 1.5 crore children have so far been rendered orphans all over the world.
More than 50 crore children in the developing world are deprived of sanitation facilities, 27 crore of health facilities, 64 crore of shelter, 14 crore of education and 30 crore of access to information, the report said.
Azizul Haque, 13, and Farida Akhtar, 14, two deprived children who have received vocational training with Unket help at Ahsania Mission, narrated at the launching ceremony how they luarntsomethlng to become self-reliant despite their abject poverty.
Diplomats, journalists and NGO activists were present on die ocra sion.