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http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/ ... ex_np.html

[quote:50f9d]Broken promises
Bush declines to increase U.S. aid for Africa as a new U.N. report reveals the expected toll in child deaths from the failure to reduce global poverty.

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By Larry Elliott and Patrick Wintour

June 8, 2005 | WASHINGTON --

Three million children will die in the poorest countries of sub-Saharan Africa as a result of the failure of the global community to meet its promise of slashing the death rates of children under age 5 by 2015, the United Nations is to reveal Wednesday. With Tony Blair Tuesday struggling to persuade George W. Bush to back Britain's ambitious plans for Africa, the U.N. Development Program said the human cost to Africa in child deaths would be the equivalent of twice the combined under-5 population of New York, London and Tokyo.


A study by the UNDP -- timed to put pressure on G8 leaders ahead of their summit at Gleneagles, Scotland, next month -- showed that based on current trends, the global community will miss by a wide margin the targets it set for poverty, infant mortality and education in the millennium development goals agreed to by the U.N. in 2000.
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When will we learn that other countries won't hate us if we just helped others. Here, we have the opportunity to save 3 million childrens lives, but instead almighty Bush decides to spend it on the death of thousands of Iraqis. And we wonder why America doesn't get any respect...