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ACR Weekly Newsletter Vol. 3, No. 5 (04 February 2004)
 
ILO: 'Child labour prevents development' [ILO Release]
Educating children, rather than forcing them to work could yield enormous economic benefits for developing nations, according to the International Labour Organisation (ILO). Paying for a child's e...

Pakistan: 1,826 Child Abuse cases in 2003 [News]
One thousand cases of physical abuse and 826 cases of sexual abuse against children were reported to the police in 2003. The cases included 623 child murders, 383 rapes, 277 sodomy rapes, 254 severe i...

Street Children in Nepal: Save the Children Report [Report]
The dominant interpretation of street children is that of passive victims and deviants. Interventions are therefore designed to rescue or remove children from the street and to socialise them into mai...

Innocents in Jails
The Nation Editorial Thursday January 8, 2004 That small children, otherwise outside the rigours of law in any civilised setting, should suffer the constricting surroundings of prisons for t...


 
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