ACR Weekly Newsletter Vol. 4, No. 04 (26 January 2005)
NEPAL: Focus on children and the insurgency [Report] About 750 km northwest of the capitalKathmandu, children in the mountainous district of Simikot live in fearthat Maoist rebels who have been fighting the government since 1996 willmarch into their vil...
PAKISTAN: Lahore High Court Strikes Down Juvenile Law [News] Summary
The children of Pakistan are already a battered community and enjoy few rights, wrote SPARC’s Board. Thousands of children continue to languish in prisons, their hopes for a respite from the...
SOUTH ASIA TSUNAMIS: ECPAT Groups Focus on Protection [Help] Summary
ECPAT International advocates that child protection measures must be integral to any emergency response, and its member groups in Indonesia and Sri Lanka are currently working to institute s...