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Urbanization Leaves Millions Of Children Without Access To Vital Services, UNICEF Report States
"Urbanization leaves hundreds of millions of children in cities and towns excluded from vital services, UNICEF warns in 'The State of the World's Children 2012: Children in an Urban World,'" released on Tuesday, the agency reports in a press release (2/28). "Children in slums and poor urban communities lack access to clean water, sanitation and education, as services struggle to keep up with fast urban growth, says" the agency's flagship report, according to AlertNet (Caspani, 2/28). The report "calls attention to the lack of data on conditions in slums, particularly as it relates to children, and it calls for a deeper understanding of the issues surrounding poverty and inequality in cities and increased political will to improve the lives of the most marginalized," UNICEF writes in an accompanying article (2/28).
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