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Dec 16 2005, Bhawana Negi

There are around 30,000 street children in Moscow, majority of which are either drug addict or are infected from HIV positive. Similarly, in Nigeria there are around 6,000 children who are imprisoned for stealing food and loitering in the streets. In...

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