Eight Years Later: ‘Most Dangerous Place To Be Born’
EmailABC’s Nick Schifrin files this sad item from Kabul:
In a press conference in Geneva today, the South Asia regional director for UNICEF said this: "Afghanistan today is without a doubt the most dangerous place to be born.”
Dan Toole was speaking about UNICEF’s annual report The State of the World’s Children, which is available here.
Toole said Afghanistan has the highest infant mortality rate in the world: 257 deaths for every 1,000 live births. He also said a lack of security prevents polio and measles vaccine campaigns and decreases the number of children attending schools, especially girls. 317 schools have been destroyed by the Taliban in the past year, he said, killing 124 people.
Here’s another link – to drive the point home. This is the actual list of mortality rates around the world.
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I live in australia and thank each day that I don’t live anywhere else, we have a good govenment, and great weather all year long. It is good to be free
Posted by: Jedda | November 20, 2009, 5:28 am 5:28 am
There aren’t many places, that offer good prospects for a good life, in this day and age.
Half of the planet is under attack from Islamic extremists, and the drug lords have the other half under attack.
One can only muse that the planet would probably be better off, if humans became extinct.
Posted by: Rick McDaniel | November 20, 2009, 9:40 am 9:40 am