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A Comprehensive Portal on Child Rights in Asia from AHRC

ACR Weekly Newsletter Vol.4, No. 32 (10 August 2005)

PAKISTAN: Focus on 'missing girls' [Report]
Ultrasound technician, Dr Zaheer, wearily shakes his head asa young couple leave his office in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore. He haddeclined to tell them the gender of the child they are expect...

AFGHANISTAN: Maternal and Child Mortality Rates Soaring [news]
While Afghanistan is progressing from a state of emergencyto a focus on development, women and children continue to face an "acute emergency''because of exceptionally high maternal and child mortality...

IRAQ: Focus on boys trapped in commercial sex trade [Report]
Hassan Feiraz, a 16-year-old boy, has started a desperate new life since being forced into the sex trade in Baghdad, joining a growing number of adolescents soliciting in Iraq under the threat of st...

CHILD LABOUR: Children in Sugarcane Plantations in the Philippines [report]
Children are exposed to toxic pesticides while workingon sugarcane plantations in the Philippines. This is what child rights organisationTerre des Hommes Netherlands found in its research into hazardo...

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