Poverty, conflict and discrimination against girls affects more than half of all children worldwide, putting 150 million at extreme risk of the factors that cut short their childhood, according to a new survey.

The Second Annual "End of Childhood Report" released on Wednesday by the nongovernmental advocacy organization Save the Children examines the parts of the world where 1.2 billion children are most commonly subjected to those three most common causes of abuse and suffering.

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