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ACR Weekly Newsletter Vol.2, No.24 (11 June 2003)
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Sri Lanka: Sri Lanka Cracks Down on Child Abusers
Heightened public awareness, increased vigilance by the government, and stiffer penalization has triggered a rise in reported cases of child abuse in Sri Lanka, leading to a higher conviction rate of ...
Iraq: Iraq Survey Finds Child Health Sliding [News]
[BAGHDAD / GENEVA / NEW YORK, 14 May 2003] - Two months after the start of the Iraq war, UNICEF has called for urgent action to halt what it believes is the plummeting nutritional status of Iraqi chil...
India: Child Labourers Given Lessons, then sent back to work
A 12 year old boy toils for hours in a brick kiln, sweating it out in the heat. Like him, over one million children work in the state, many in hazardous conditions, in sugarcane factories and powerloo...
Violence: Children in Organised Armed Violence [call for information]
Viva Rio, in partnership with IANSA (International Action Network on Small Arms) and Save the Children Sweden, will be coordinating rapid assessment research regarding children in organised armed viol...
Child Abuse: World Day for PRevention of Child Abuse [call for participants]
For the third year, the Women's World Summit Foundation (WWSF) calls on organisations worldwide to organise pertinent activities to mark World Day for Prevention of Child Abuse on 19 November. Last ye...
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