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ACR Weekly Newsletter Vol.5, No. 02 (11 January 2006)

KYRGYZSTAN: Respiratory infections in infants increasing [News]
Health officials have said that the number of acuterespiratory infections in the former Soviet republic of 5.1 million is unacceptablyhigh and shows no sign of decreasing, especially among infants and...

Pakistan: Women and Children Abductions triple in Lahore:2005 [News]
Abductions of women and children in Lahore have tripled in 2005 in comparison with2004 although the total number of abductions in Pakistan has decreased. According todata collected by Madadgaar Help L...

Pakistan: 545,000 Children fell prey to malnutrition in 2005 [Report]
The malnutrition claimed lives of about 545,000 children (some 40 per cent ofchildren below five-years-of-age) in the country this year, said a report releasedby Healthcare Expert Dr. The report said ...

Child Labor: The Ugly Side Of Those Beautiful Rugs [Article]
I was sitting at a lunch table at a multinational consumer conference when I first learned aboutRugmark, an international organization that rescues children from slavery at the rug looms in India, Nep...

DISABILITY CONVENTION: Seventh session of the Ad Hoc Committee [event]
Date: 16 January - 3 February 2006Location: New York, USA The Seventh session of the Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and IntegralInternational Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Ri...

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