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ACR Weekly Newsletter Vol. 5, No. 22 (31 May 006)
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NEPAL: Focus on malnourishment and the conflict [Report]
For Goma Shrestha, providing for her children's dailyneeds is more than a challenge; it's impossible. Despite the fact that her one-yearold son's normal body weight should be 10 kg, Babu Shristha, wei...
CHILD LABOUR: New ILO Global Monitoring Report [publication]
Child labour, especially in its worst forms, is in decline for the first time across the globe, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said in a new, cautiously optimistic report entitled The End...
UZBEKISTAN: New school brings children with disabilities out of their homes [News]
Elyor is 11 years old, but his stunted growth - the result ofpolyathritis - makes him look half that. He is busy working with modelling clay ata new school in the Uzbek city of Angren, 80 km sou...
MATERNAL HEALTH: State of the World's Mothers 2006 [publication]
For most children in the developing world, the most dangerous day of their lives is their birthday. Of more than 10 million children under the age of 5 who die each year, about 1 in 5 - an estimated 2...
TEARFUND: Child Rights and Disaster Management [article]
Recent disasters have again highlighted the greater vulnerability of children in relation to other sectors of the population. In the South Asia tsunami (December 2004), disproportionate numbers of chi...
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