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The volume is concerned with issues relating to child abuse and neglect. Experts from different countries present regional and global perspectives as they speak against violence on children including corporal punishment. Referring to the Asia Pacific Conference on Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (2011), they view child abuse from a public health approach involving the grassroots and public policy initiatives. They detail the role of the media in child ...
With the Sixteenth SAARC Summit taking place on 28-29 April, 2010 at Thimpu, Bhutan, all eyes are focused once again on the event and what it signifies. It is time indeed to take stock of SAARC’s progress till date, the road it has traversed and the path that lies ahead. With Sri Lanka at the helm, SAARC has definitely moved on covering a lot of its chosen agenda, especially in areas like energy, environment, poverty alleviation, trade facilitation and also ...
With the 14th SAARC Summit scheduled to take place on April 3-4, 2007, in New Delhi, Attention has once again been focused on SAARC, its trajectory of growth and also its potentials and pitfalls. While opinions of experts differ on the quantum of SAARC's achievements, everybody agrees that 'regionalisation' is the need of the hour and SAARC is the only forum that can bring it about leading to an accelerated pace of development in the Region. SAARC-The ...