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Asia Child Rights

A Comprehensive Portal on Child Rights in Asia from AHRC

ACR Weekly Newsletter Vol.02, No.21 (21 MAY 2003)

Bangladesh: An Innovative Program to Ensure Education for the Poorest Children [Program]
Every year hundreds of economically disadvantaged children are compelled to quit schools well before completion of their primary education due to financial hardships. Apart from this, few schools have...

PHILIPPINES: A Different Childhood: the Apprehension and Detention of Child Suspects and Offenders [report]
Children in the Philippines, as in all societies, are uniquely vulnerable due to their incomplete physical, emotional and intellectual development. They are dependent on adults and adult structures of...

India: Life for Baby Girl Killers
[By Sampath Kumar, BBC] In India women are often seen as a burden A court in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu has sentenced three people to life imprisonment for killing a new-born baby...

Iraq: Orphans in Malaysia Sacrifice savings to help Iraqi Kids
Sixty-four orphans broke into their savings and sacrificed their ang pow money to help other children in war-torn Iraq. The children of Ti-Ratana Orphanage in Desa Petaling gave RM999 to the Malay...

Burma: A Young Girl Raped by Police
Buthidaung: A girl was gang raped by police while she was returning to her home after visiting her relatives at Rathedaung township on 19th April 2003, according to our correspondent The victim Rohima...

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