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A Comprehensive Portal on Child Rights in Asia from AHRC

ACR Weekly Newsletter Vol. 5, No. 25 (21 June 2006)

PAKISTAN: Domestic child trafficking pervasive [Report]
A new study on child trafficking has revealed that levels of domestic child trafficking in Pakistan's southern Sindh province are much higher than those for international trafficking in the country. ...

NEPAL: More than a million child labourers [News]
Over a million Nepalese children are working as child labourers in Nepal, with 127,000 involved in the worst forms, according to the government's National Living Standard Survey (NLSS). "This is o...

PAKISTAN: Activists against institutionalisation of quake children [News]
Seven months after a powerful earthquake devastated northern Pakistan and Pakistani-administered Kashmir, child protection experts have called for a community-based care system for vulnerable childr...

CHILD LABOR: ILO Launches report on Child Labor [Report]
New ILO Report shows marked decline in child labour worldwide Believes its worst forms can be eliminated in 10 years Child labour, especially in its worst forms, is in decline for the first time a...

HIV/AIDS: Call for UK Delegation to Deliver for World's Most Vulnerable Children [Event]
World Leaders will participate in a comprehensive review at the United Nations headquarters between 31 May - 2 June 2006 of progress made on global agreements to reach Millennium Development Goal 6 ...

NEPAL: Rural people act to reduce child malnutrition [News]
Dhaupadi village in Nawalparais district is so remote thatmany Nepalese people have no idea that it lies 280 km southwest of the capital,Kathmandu. But it is here that a remarkable experiment in self-...

CORPORAL PUNISHMENT: Research in Southeast Asia and Pacific [publication]
Save the Children Sweden, regional office for Southeast Asia and the Pacific, has recently submitted a report on physical and psychological punishment of children to the UN Study on Violence against...

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