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Role in Eradication of Child Labor Sought
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Girl,
untreated for 14 hours, dies
Sialkot,
July 29: The heirs to a 16-year-old girl who
died at the Allama Iqbal Memorial Hospital
late on Saturday have blamed “absent
doctors sand paramedics” for her death.
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Five-day
Certificate Course
Child Rights and Child Protection July 27-31, 2007,
Islamabad, Pakistan (more)
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Society
for the Protection of the Right of the Child
(SPARC) is an independent Non-Governmental
Organization registered as a Society in
Pakistan in December 1992 and has been working
exclusively on child related issues since
then, drawing inspiration from the United
Nations Convention on the Rights of the
Child. Please visit www.sparcpk.org to know
Child Issues in Pakistan and Development
on Child Rights.
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40
percent dropout rate raises eyebrows
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ISLAMABAD,
July
30: The Senate committee on education
expressed serious concern over the staggering
40 percent dropout rate at primary level
and asked the Ministry of Education to
make necessary arrangements to take the
children back to schools. (more) |
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Environmental hazards kill millions of
children: WHO |
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UNITED NATIONS,
July 29: A new report by the World Health
Organization says that environmental hazards
are responsible for the deaths of several
million children every year. (more) |
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Child Marriages.
July 29.
The Law and Justice Commission of Pakistan seeks
the toughening of laws for the suppression of
swara, vani and child marriage in general. However,
is the increase of the period of imprisonment
to six months and the fine to Rs25,000 the “harsher
punishment” the commission has in mind?
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30 Bags of Babies' Bones
Found in India
India:
July 23. Dozens of
plastic bags containing the remains of aborted
foetuses and newborn babies have been found in
a pit in eastern India, police said on July 23.
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Floods Affect 1.5m Children,
says UNICEF
RAWALPINDI, July
11: About 1.5 million children have been
affected by floods and heavy rains in Sindh and
Balochistan, according to the United Nations Children’s
Fund (UNICEF). (more)
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