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Asia Child Rights

A Comprehensive Portal on Child Rights in Asia from AHRC

ACR Weekly Newsletter Vol. 3, No. 30 (28 July 2004)

AFGHANISTAN: Child marriage rate still high [News]
A high proportion of marriages in Afghanistaninvolve girls below the legal age, according to reports from the Ministryof Women's Affairs and NGOs. As many as 57 percent involve young womenunder 16, so...

ORPHANS: Greed and Expediency Fail 14 Million Children Orphaned by HIV/AIDS [news]
The HIV/AIDS pandemic is orphaning children in unprecedented numbers. Already morethan 14 million children under the age of 15 have lost either one or both parents toAIDS. It has made many millions mo...

KYRGYZSTAN: Children labour to pay school fees [News]
With the Kyrgyz school year finished, many children are away at Soviet-era summer camps. But many other schoolchildren, especially from poorer families, have to work in order to provide support for th...

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