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Cambodia's 'fake' orphans - 8 Nov 2008

2008-11-11T22:55:28Z

Al Jazeera discovered that many of the children in the streets of Cambodia have been pretending to be orphans in order to gain the sympathy and lose change of wealthy tourists.

From Pnomh Penh, Al Jazeera's David Hawkins reports on the young street preformers who demonstrate Cambodia's broken system of care for the parentless children.

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Witness Orphans of Mygoma 22 Oct Part 2

2008-10-25T15:09:42Z

Story teller becomes the story when she travels to Sudan to make a film about an orphanage in Khartoum.

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Witness Orphans of Mygoma 22 Oct Part 1

2008-11-10T01:32:26Z

Story teller becomes the story when she travels to Sudan to make a film about an orphanage in Khartoum.

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The plight of Myanmar's Hurricane Nargis orphans - 14 Sep 08

2008-10-30T21:30:32Z

When Cyclone Nargis struck Myanmar four months ago, people not only lost their homes, but also their families.

Hundreds of children lost their parents in the hard-hit Irrawady Delta region.

Our Special Correspondent in Myanmar travelled to the Delta to report on their plight.

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Witness - China orphans - 21 Aug 08 - Part 1

2008-10-29T09:34:04Z

Witness follows the extraordinary story of an elderly Chinese couple who are caring for the children others have abandoned.

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Witness - China Orphans - 21 Aug 08 - Part 2

2008-10-29T09:33:54Z

Witness follows the extraordinary story of an elderly Chinese couple who are caring for the children others have abandoned.

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Children of Congo: From War to Witches (trailer)

2008-12-02T18:45:22Z

Over five million people have died during the past decade as a result of the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Few Americans are aware of the unimaginable scale of human suffering, death, and destruction in this vast country located deep in the heart of Africa. In the aftermath of this brutal war, children have endured the brunt of the suffering. This 56 minute film documents the plight of thousands of street children living in Kinshasa as well as the wide-spread accusations of child witchcraft, torture and prostitution. This documentary also examines the efforts being made to reintegrate demobilized child soldiers, displaced refugees, and orphaned children following the volcanic eruption near the city of Goma, in Eastern Congo, and to bring some measure of hope and stability to the lives of the Congolese people following the democratic elections in 2006.

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Young Kenyans orphaned by violence - 12 Feb 08

2008-10-20T09:30:10Z

In Kenya, there are signs of a possible breakthrought in the political deadlock that's fuelled violent clashes between rival supporters.

However, young Kenyans left orphaned by the recent violence have been telling Al Jazeera about their horror at seeing their families massacred.

Many will need psychological counselling.

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Vietnam's baby boom crisis - 04 Dec 07

2008-10-21T21:30:20Z

Al Jazeera's Tony Birtley went to Ho Chi Minh City to meet some of the more than half a million orphans whose adoptions are being made more difficult by new laws designed to protect them.

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Mongolia's street children fight for survival - 21 Aug 07

2008-11-01T19:27:33Z

Almost a third of Mongolia's population are classified as the urban poor. In the past decade hundreds of thousands of nomadic herders have moved to the cities where unemployment and alcohol abuse are rife.

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Zimbabwe's orphans - 26 July 07

2008-10-14T11:23:15Z

AIDS related deaths are the leading killer of children under five years old in Zimbabwe.

The HIV-Aids virus is the main reason why 1.6 million Zimbabwean children are orphaned - on a par with the number of children orphaned in Rwanda after the 1994 genocide.

Children with no parents in Zimbabwe face little or no hope for their future.

Haru Mutasa reports from, Goromonzi, a village in eastern Zimbabwe.

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Central African Republic's street children - 09 Jul 07

2008-10-14T21:31:22Z

The Central African Republic is one of the least developed countries in the world and one of the least stable since it gained independence from France in 1960. The country has been wracked by internal conflict and a succession of coups. It's the sixth poorest nation in the world despite its vast unexploited mineral wealth of gold, diamonds and uranium. Amid the poverty, more than 3-thousand children sleep on the streets of the capital Bangui, every night. Al Jazeera's Andrew Simmons reports from the city streets.

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Melissa Greene - Africa, AIDS, and Adoption

2008-10-15T03:31:26Z

Complete video at: fora.tv

Author Melissa Fay Greene discusses the role of adoption in relieving the effects of Africa's ongoing AIDS epidemic.

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Melissa Fay Greene talks about "There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children."

This volume is the story of Haregewoin Tefarra, a middle-aged Ethiopian woman of modest means whose home has become a refuge for hundreds of children orphaned by AIDS. Today, Haregewoin runs a school, a day-care system and a shelter for sick mothers.

Greene, a regular contributor to The New York Times Magazine and Good Housekeeping, has written for The New Yorker, Life, Newsweek, The Atlantic, Readers Digest, Ms., The Wilson Quarterly, Redbook, and Salon.com.

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Happy Fathers Day from the President

2008-12-02T18:39:13Z

What the President would say if he was able to tell the about anything. Written by JurassicPork.

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