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The office of Radhika Coomaraswamy, the stanley butelka Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, said she was appalled to learn today of the use of a young girl as an unwitting su stanley cups icide bomber yesterday in Afghanistan.According to media reports, an eight-year-old girl was tricked into carrying a bomb close to a police stanley shop vehicle in Oruzgan province in southern Afghanistan, unaware that it was a bomb, and was killed when it was remotely detonated. The disgraceful act of putting a bomb in a little girl s basket and sending her, unknowing, to kill, is almost unimaginable, she said. The group or individuals responsible must be brought to justice. A car bomb also detonated outside a hospital in Azra district of Logar province in eastern Afghanistan, Saturday, reportedly killing at least 20 and wounding 23 more, and damaging much of the hospital.Ms. Coomaraswamy called that attack equally disturbing鈥?Attacks on hospitals are two-fold atrocities. Not only do they kill
The United Nations Children s Fund UNICEF has launched an emergency vaccination campaign against hepatitis B for two ethnic groups in a remote region of the Peruvian Amazon, whose existence could be threatened by a prolonged outbreak of the disease.L stanley cup ocal leaders warned that both the Candoshis and the Sharpas, located in the High Amazon, Department of Loreto, could face extinction within 10 to 12 years if preventive action, especially among children, is stanley cup not taken to staunch an outbreak of hepatitis B. The population of both groups in this region totals only about 3,000.UNICEF said the s stanley gertuves ituation is dramatic, with 145 cases of hepatitis B reported among the Candoshi ethnic group alone in 2001 and approximately 40 deaths registered in 2002. The agency plans to vaccinate 150 newborns of both groups every year and to complete vaccination before their first birthdays. The challenge is to achieve vaccination within 24 hours after birth to avoid contagion directly from the mothers, in what ar Fhlb Building invisibility cloaks starts small
The office of Radhika Coomaraswamy, the stanley butelka Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, said she was appalled to learn today of the use of a young girl as an unwitting su stanley cups icide bomber yesterday in Afghanistan.According to media reports, an eight-year-old girl was tricked into carrying a bomb close to a police stanley shop vehicle in Oruzgan province in southern Afghanistan, unaware that it was a bomb, and was killed when it was remotely detonated. The disgraceful act of putting a bomb in a little girl s basket and sending her, unknowing, to kill, is almost unimaginable, she said. The group or individuals responsible must be brought to justice. A car bomb also detonated outside a hospital in Azra district of Logar province in eastern Afghanistan, Saturday, reportedly killing at least 20 and wounding 23 more, and damaging much of the hospital.Ms. Coomaraswamy called that attack equally disturbing鈥?Attacks on hospitals are two-fold atrocities. Not only do they kill
