Full coverage: Children

30.12.2004 While India boast of its achievement in ensuring infrastructure for primary education for most part of the country, everyone is getting away from ensuring quality learning for the children, writes Trishul Makeshwar of Azim Premji Foundation.

30.12.2004 Unicef operations thoughout the tsunami disaster region give priority to keeping children alive, the universal concern being access to clean water. In the Sri Lankan conflict zone, there is the added threat of displaced and unmarked landmines - a danger especially to children.

27.12.2004 The Afghan ministry of education with support from UNICEF has established community based learning centers providing education to nearly 50,000 children in areas with no formal schools.

23.12.2004 The head of the Mostar field office of the Children Rights Department, Stjepan Prskalo, discussed the reasons behind the decision of the Ombudsman of BH Federation to close the Department, at the press conference held yesterday in Mostar.

23.12.2004 ''Djeca Hercegovine diskriminirana su zatvaranjem ovog ureda'', kazao je voditelj terenskog Odjela za prava djeteta Stjepan Prskalo, dodajući da će on volonterski dovršiti projekt zbrinjavanja dvanaest domicilnih romskih obitelji u Mostaru.

23.12.2004 The Sri Lanka rebel group, Tamil Tigers, is abducting and recruiting school children to push them into brutal military training even though active fighting with the government ended in 2002, says the Human Rights Watch.

23.12.2004 “La tratta di esseri umani è un fenomeno multiforme e complesso che viola i diritti delle sue vittime, privandole della loro dignità umana, e che colpisce particolarmente i minori”. Lo sottolinea Pippo Costella, Direttore dei Programmi di Save the Children Italia e membro del Gruppo di Esperti della Commissione Europea che ha redatto il Rapporto sulla Tratta di Esseri Umani presentato stamane a Bruxelles al Commissario per la Giustizia Franco Frattini. Sono moltissimi in Europa i bambini e le bambine vittime di tratta. Vengono reclutati dalle organizzazioni criminali nei paesi di origine, solitamente dell’Est e Sudest europeo, e trasportati nei paesi di destinazione (es. Italia, Francia, Spagna, Gran Bretagna) dove sono trattenuti o venduti a fini di sfruttamento sessuale, economico, lavorativo, di adozione illegale, spesso costretti a vivere in situazioni di vera e propria schiavitù.

22.12.2004 Following the deaths of four staff, the Director-General of Save the Children announces with great regret that the charity's presence in Darfur will have to be suspended.

22.12.2004 Lack of proper educational facilities like schools and books are not the only problems confronting children in rural India but laxity on the part of teachers, who manage to stay away from schools for days, also adds up to the crisis say experts from Harvard University and the World Bank.

21.12.2004 It is important to speak out now for a high-quality, non-profit child care system with long-term public funding, a system that's accessible and affordable to everyone, and that supports children's development. Let's tell the ministers loud and clear that anything less just won't make the grade.

21.12.2004 Disregarding cultural dictates the determined parents of a young Pakistani girl enroll their daughter in primary school paving way for her better future.

21.12.2004 The government of India has consented to a proposal made by the ministry of Human Resources to initiate e-learning classes in secondary schools.

21.12.2004 At the press conference held on December 17, Friday, the First Children Embassy in the World -Medjasi presented an overview of the work of the SOS Phone-Line for the past year, and the most common problems that were the cause to use the SOS Line.

21.12.2004 The organization Kids with Cameras uses photography and documentary filmmaking as a way to empower children in conflict zones and situations of extreme poverty around the world. A new film tells the story of the group's birth.

20.12.2004 The combination of cuts to public services and weakened employment standards in B.C. has hit women especially hard, according to a new study that examines the impact of recent government restructuring on women’s economic equality.

20.12.2004 Na pres-konferencijata, odrzana na 17 dekemvri, petok, Prvata detska ambasada vo svetot - MEGJASI dade pregled za rabotata na SOS linijata vo izminatata godina i vidot na problemite za koi sto najcesto se kontaktira SOS telefonot.
Od vkupno 414 javuvanja godinava, 23,2 otsto se pozalile na semejni problemi, a najcesti se onie koi prijavuvaat semejno i seksualno nasilstvo vrz dete.

20.12.2004 Missing girl children is an outcome of deep rooted sustained gender biases in the communities whereas medical technology is only adding to the cause, concludes Dr. Thaneshwar Bir of National Institute of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi.

20.12.2004 The demobilization of nearly 4000 child soldiers in Afghanistan has created bright learning prospects for these children who have missed out on years of education due to past conflicts.

20.12.2004 One alternative gift possibility will help AIDS-affected orphans in Zambia go to school this year.

20.12.2004 The Albanian authorities must establish how a 17-year-old received fatal injuries while in pre-trial detention and bring to justice those responsible for his death. Amnesty International today expressed its grave concern at the failure of the Albanian prosecuting and judicial authorities to account for the fatal injuries suffered by Eriguert Ceka in Rreshen (Mirdita region) police station in July 2004.