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A Comprehensive Portal on Child Rights in Asia from AHRC

ACR Weekly Newsletter Vol.2, No.31 (30 July 2003)

SRI LANKA: Child abductions haunt mothers in Sri Lanka's east [News]
Nalini has five children, but when she wakes up in the morning she remembers that only three are safe in their beds. The other two are training to be soldiers. Her son, now 17, was abducted by...

BEIJING: Woman sentenced to 12 years for selling baby girls [News]
A woman in southern China who sold eight baby girls after adopting them had been sentenced to 12 years in prison, an official newspaper said today. Zhang Huijiao, a farmer in Guangdong province, ma...

PAKISTAN: Gap widens in male, female literacy rate [REPORT]
Although women's education witnessed a major improvement in the 1990s, still Pakistan is considered to have a largest gender gap in literacy ratio. The Pakistan Education and School Atlas, which w...

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