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UNICEF Report Says More Than 30M Children In East Asia, Pacific Lack Essential Services
"More than 30 million children in seven countries in East Asia and the Pacific are deprived of at least one essential service such as basic health care, safe drinking water or access to education, according to a United Nations study (.pdf)," AlertNet reports. According to UNICEF's "Child Poverty in East Asia and the Pacific: Deprivations and Disparities" report, "more than 13 million of the 93 million children in Cambodia, Laos, Mongolia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vanuatu and Vietnam suffer from two or more such deprivations."
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