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    2015 South Asia Data Pocket Book
    (Unicef, 2015)
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    Annual review 1999-2000
    (Innocent:publications, 2000)
    Since its establishment in 1988 the UNICEF innocenti research centre has been a catalyst for the development of UNICEF 's leadership role for children in many key areas. Work carried out at the centre in Florence drawing on the resource and experience of a large network of fices has helped to shape the human rights agenda for children, It has also contributed to the intellectual foundation of UNICEF's advocacy for shifts in economic and social policies in favour of the poorest children and families worldwide
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    An assessment of child malnutrition
    (2022) A. Carlson, Beverley; M. Wardlaw, Tessa
    Monitoring the nutritional status of children is a fundamental instrument in pursuing the goal of ending child malnutrition without accurate and up-to date information on the nutritional well-being of children it is almost impossible to gear government policies and national mobilization to the task of ending child malnutrition.At present few countries have information on the nutritional status of their children regularly at their disposal
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    Child care services in Tamil Nadu
    (2022) Swaminathan, Mina
    The fate of women young children and girls are inextricably linked together in a complex interacting cycle. This becomes poignantly evident in the case of the poor, who in India constitute slightly more than a third of the population. the consequences of poverty for children are in themselves server.In addition young children in families where both parents have to work in order to make ends meet suffer the double disadvantage of poverty and parental absence the impact of which can be seen in the high infant mortality rate the high incidence of morbidity malnutrition deficiency disorders and disabilities among children and low literacy levels.
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    Child labour in Sri lanka
    (2022) Kuhathasan, K; Baddewela, L B
    Like in most other countries the basic minimum age for employment in sir Lanka is 14.However the employment of children below the age of 14 by their parents.or guardian in light agricultural or horticultural work is permitted for less than one hour or any day before school.light work is al so permitted in any school or institution for training purposes or in any dramatic performance.
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    Children : Zones of peace a call for acion promoting and protecting the rights of children affected by armed conflict in Sri Lanka
    (1998-05)
    This document represents the joint product of many people who,like you are concerned about the impact of conflict on the children of Sri Lanka.So far this call for action has taken five months to develop and has involved over 80 consultation meetings with some 250 people in Colombo and all the main areas of the North and East affected by conflict.
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    Children in especially difficult circimstances and child rights
    (1992-05-05) V.W.E Ameresekere, Raja
    Children are part of the physical and socioeconomic environment. As today's children are the citizens of tomorrow's world their survival, protection and development are critical for the future development of humanity.provision of resources to meet their basic needs and to enable them to grow to their full potential will shape the future of the world. Investment in children's activities is therefore the foundation of national development.
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    Colombo resolution on children
    (1992-09-18)
    Pursuant to the decision of the sixth SAARC summit , we the ministers of SAARC member states and other representatives of government and the people assembled in Colombo 16-18 September 1992 on behalf of the 410 million children of South Asia.
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    Convention on the rights of the child
    (Unicef, 1989-11-20)
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    The girl child and women's issues: national symposiom on the plan of action for children
    (1992-05-05)
    The SAARC technical committee on women & development has declared the period 1991-year 2000 as the SAARC decade of the girl child and has emphasised the need for special efforts by the South Asian countries to reduce the gaps that exist in the growth and development between girls and boys. It stresses the need to recognize "Girl Child Mother Cycle" and calls for action to improve the lot of the girl child as the latter cannot be de-linked from issues related to the status and condition of women.
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    The Girl Child In Sri Lanka
    (2022)
    The purpose of this booklet is to highlight in a succint manner the main concerns and issues facing the Sri Lankan Girl Child. 1990 has been designated the year of the Girl Child by SAARC countries. Within the context of Sri Lanka,there is no apparent gender bias. There is equal access to education and health service. Indicators such as infant mortality reveal that girls fare better than boys.However, son preferences do exist.Adolescent girls face the problems of early marriage, and a deteriorating nutritional status as they move towards marriage and motherhood.
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    A global regional and country assessment of child malnutrition
    (1990-04) A. Carlson, Beverley; M.Wardlaw, Tessa
    A global assessment of malnutrition in children under five has just been completed in UNICEF based on data available as of January 1990.The analysis is based on nationally representative data from 76 developing countries accounting for 83% of the under-five population of the developing world, excluding China.The data which come from a varicty of sorce refer mainly to national malnutrition prevalence in the 1980s, with half the countries having data for 1985 or later although for a few countries data from the late seventies are used in the absence of more recent estimates
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    Health and nutritional status of girl child in Sri Lanka
    (2022) Piyasena, Chandrani
    The importance of safe motherhood and its positive influence on the nutritional status of the child is well recognised.Therefore, attention is now increasingly focused on the health and nutritional status of the girl child.
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    IHD foundation day lecture: children and humen rights
    (2022) Sen, Amartya
    The framework of human rights can be usefully applied to addressing a number of deprivations that children face in society. The importance of human rights relates to the significance of the freedoms that form the subject matters of rights-freedom from hunger and freedom from es-capable mortality.The discipline of human rights has much to offer in systematizing the perfect and imperfect obligations that society has towards children.Human rights generate reasons for action for agents who can help in safeguarding and promoting the interest of children
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    The impact of world recession on children
    (2022) Jolly, Richard; Andrea Cornia, Giovanni
    The world economy is in secession the deepest the most wide.Spread since the 1930s.There are glimmers of recovery in the industrial countries but most serious economic analysis anticipate that rates of growth and levels of economic activity for the rest of the 1980s will remain well below those of the 1960s.As the 1983 world economic survey put it recovery is plagued with uncertainties and the outlook for most developing countries is bleak.