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ACR Weekly Newsletter Vol.4, No. 41 (12 October 2005)
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INDIA: Child Malnutrition Causes 1,600 Recent Deaths [news]
Nearly 1,600 children under the age of six have died inIndia's Maharashtra state, many from malnutrition, in the past four months,officials say. Most of the deaths have occurred in tribal areas of the...
NEPAL: Still low on global poverty index [News]
Latest figures from the 2005 Human DevelopmentReport (HDR) indicate Nepal continues to languish at the bottom of the global humanpoverty index. The Himalayan kingdom's infant mortality rate is the thi...
CHILDREN AND VIOLENCE: Speak out against Sexual Abuse [publication]
The International Save the Children Alliance is contributing to the United NationsSecretary General's Study on Violence against Children by participating in theorganisation of the Regional Consultatio...
E-CHILD PROTECTION: World Summit on the Information Society [submission]
ECPAT International is calling on the Tunis phase of the World Summit of theInformation Society (WSIS) to protect children and young people from the dangerswhich accompany the undoubted benefits of ex...
INFORMATION: World Summit on the Information Society [event]
Summit: 16-18 November 2005, Tunis, TunisiaPrepCom: 19-30 September 2005, Geneva, Switzerland
The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) is held in two phases. The firstphase of WSIS took pla...
SOUTH & CENTRAL ASIA: Demystifying Non-Discrimination for Effective Child Rights programming in South and Central Asia [workshop]
Date: 24 - 28 October 2005Location: Kathmandu, Nepal
There is a growing interest in rights based approaches and child rights programming(CRP) among various organisations in South and Central Asia. Th...
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