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Indigenous child placement principle: audit report 2010/11

This paper represents the second audit conducted by the Commission in fulfilling its legislative responsibility to monitor the Department of Communities’ compliance with section 83 of the Child Protection Act 1999 . Social Policy read more

Thailand aims to stop worst child labour

The Labour Ministry plans to declare a list of jobs considered too dangerous for children in the hope that the US will remove Thailand from a watch list.

COMMENTARY: Pakistan's pro-women legislation

Islamabad (Dawn/ANN) - A Thomas Reuters Foundation poll of gender specialists reported that Afghanistan in 2011 was the world's most dangerous country in which to be a woman, due to poverty, poor healthcare and harmful cultural practices.

Pakistan's pro-women legislation

A Thomas Reuters Foundation poll of gender specialists reported that Afghanistan in 2011 was the worldâs most dangerous country in which to be a woman, due to poverty, poor healthcare and harmful .....

Selling the dead

The sale for up to $30 million of the rights to Marilyn Monroe's image has put the spotlight on who makes money from stars whose names are worth more dead than alive