Nearly 43 percent of Mexican children live in poverty

Posted on: February 1st, 2006
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“Mexican Organizations for the protection of children informed that 42.6 percent of Mexican children live in poverty.

This situation was presented by the organizations before the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child and the results presented to the press.

According to the organizations, President Vicente Fox´s government failed to accomplish the goal of reducing the child death rate that in some regions goes up to 30 deaths per 1000 live births. …”

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