|
|
|
ACR Weekly Newsletter Vol.4, No. 40 (05 October 2005)
|
TURKMENISTAN: Prostitution on the rise [Report]
Poverty remains the driving-force behind rising levelsof prostitution in the energy-rich state of Turkmenistan, where upwards of 44percent of the country's population reportedly lives on less than US ...
CHINA: Children's Rights and Children Affected by Aids, Orphans, and Programming In China [paper]
This paper discusses the initiation of a project in central China through the use ofchildren's research as a foundation for understanding children's perspectives,problems and issues. This region of Ch...
PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Police Beatings, Rape, and Torture of Children [publication]
The Papua New Guinea government must act to stopthe police from engaging in brutal beatings, rape and torture of arrestees, many ofwhom are children, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released t...
JUVENILE JUSTICE: Rights of Children in the Penal System [conferences]
The Howard League for Penal Reform is organising a series of conferences on thelegal and human rights of children in the penal system, to be held in London, UK, atthe end of the year:
- Children, cr...
|
|
|
|
|
|