ACR Weekly Newsletter Vol. 3, No. 8 (25 February 2004)
UNESCO: Long way to gender parity in education [Report] Gender parity in education remains a distant prospect in 54 countries, including 16 countries in sub-Saharan Africa as well as India and Pakistan, despite worldwide focus on Education for All, special...
India: Education - A new right for the poor [Feature Article] In a milieu of increasing deprivation, the absence of clarity on the questions of legal liability and quality renders meaningless the constitutional amendment on free and compulsory elementary educati...
Pakistan: Two camel jockey kids handed over to parents [News] The two innocent camel jockey brothers, Muhammad Ashraf-7, and Muhammad Akram,-5 who returned Pakistan a few days back from the United Arab Emirates, have been handed over to their mother. They stayed...
BURMA: Child jailed for witnessing massacre [AHRC Urgent Appeal] Dear friends
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learnt from the Burma Lawyers' Council (Thailand) that a 15-year-old boy was
sentenced to a juvenile detention facility after witnessing t...