The United Nations children's agency (UNICEF) is trying to convince army-ruled Myanmar not to place at least 2,000 youngsters orphaned by this month's cyclone into state-run homes, a senior official said on Monday. "We should try and place children within family environments as a priority, and not in institutions," Anne-Claire Dufay, UNICEF's child protection chief in the former Burma, told Reuters in an interview on Monday.
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/un-urges-myanmar-not-alienate-cyclone-orphans
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/planet-ark-australia
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/cyclones
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/tsunami
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/un
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/myanmar
