Full coverage: Children

30.07.2004 Belgrade – The change of the directors of three social institutions in Belgrade, Nis and Petrovac na Mlava is planned, due to the uncovered of sexual abuse of inmates in the said institutions.

30.07.2004 At is session of Wednesday, July 28, the Parliamentary Committee for Gender Equality decided to distribute the Bosnia and Herzegovina Law on Gender Equality to the Members of the Parliament, and announced that it will supply the legislation from other states in order to inspect and review the models used to regulate the issue of gender equality.

30.07.2004 Beograd - Planira se smena direktora tri socijalne ustanove u Beogradu, Nisu i Petrovcu na Mlavi zbog slucajeva seksualnog zlostavljanja. Ministar za rad, zaposljavanje i socijalnu politiku Srbije Slobodan Lalovic je na konferenciji za novinare u sredu rekao da je za slucajeve seksualnog zlostavljanja u tim institucijama saznao pre nedelju dana i da je ministarstvo reagovalo najbrže sto je moglo.

30.07.2004 Hundreds of thousands of hungry children in India's flood ravaged northeastern state of Assam are cooped up in makeshift shelters, with many ingesting anything for survival - even dirty water, triggering fears of an outbreak of water-borne diseases.

30.07.2004 New research shows that up to 220 young children a day could have been exposed to potentially dangerous pesticide levels from eating just one apple or pear and that internationally agreed safety levels on pesticides can be breached even when the legal limits were met. Imported produce was more likely to contain high pesticide levels than homegrown fruit.

30.07.2004 By launching their own newspaper, children from Delhi's slums have created a platform for presenting their views on issues of concern to their community.

29.07.2004

Young girl struggles in flood water, Bangladesh © Mufty Munir/AFP

Hundreds of thousands of hungry children in India's flood ravaged northeastern state of Assam are cooped up in makeshift shelters, with many ingesting anything for survival - even dirty water, triggering fears of an outbreak of water-borne diseases.

28.07.2004 A new report on the circumstances of children issued last week by UNICEF and the Afghan Ministry of Labor and Social Services recommends foster care arrangement for orphaned children in Afghanistan. Although about 8,000 children live in 36 orphanages in Afghanistan, years of conflict have destroyed support structures and social services for them.

28.07.2004 Reeling under unrelenting floods, the eastern Indian state of Assam has issued appeals requesting aid agencies for baby food to feed hundreds of thousands of starving infants.

28.07.2004 Amici dei Bambini (AIBI) association (Friends of Children) was founded in 1986, as a non-governmental association that works on projects and intervention in cases of abandoned children. The majority of interventions and projects implemented by AIBI are designed for single-parent families. The goals of the interventions are: to offer to children and youth a place where they can meet, play together, hang around and grow up together in happiness. AIBI Centres are also places for gathering and friendship of single mothers which, if needed, may receive psychological support with the aim to overcome difficulties and problems.

28.07.2004 Decades of violent insurgency have taken a heavy toll on the education system in India's restive northeast, where scores of schools remain closed due to fear, making a mockery of the Indian government's recent pledge to make elementary education compulsory by 2005.

27.07.2004

Member of Children's Pressline conducting an interview

ChildrenÂ’s Pressline (CPL) is a group of young, accredited reporters (ages 8 to 13) who are working with their editors (ages 14 to 18) to cover this weekÂ’s Democratic convention in Boston. These young reporters explain their jobs and the process that got them credentialed to be on the floor of the Fleet center in Boston.

27.07.2004 Pharmaceutical companies the world over are being accused of ignoring children suffering from AIDS, and, instead, focussing only on the production of life-prolonging drugs such as anti-retroviral drugs for adults.

26.07.2004 Cuando el padre Antonio Quetglas, Vicario General de la Archidiócesis de Tegucigalpa, atribuyó la investigación del párroco costarricense Enrique Vásquez Vargas, acusado de haber abusado sexualmente de un menor, a una "conspiración judía mundial para desviar la atención de las atrocidades del estado de Israel contra los palestinos", ¿estaba diciendo lo que él pensaba o estaba haciendo eco de la voz de su amo - el arzobispo de Tegucigalpa, cardenal Oscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga?

26.07.2004 For the children of Al-Huda, a sprawling squatter community that sprung up in Baghdad after the war started, shoes were high on their wish list when staff of a U.S.-based non-governmental organization visited last year. Weeks later, after the organization sent 400 pairs of shoes to the community, getting to school in their new shoes was foremost thought on the childrenÂ’s minds.

26.07.2004

Children at Nthombimbi Primary School, Zambia, a community school with no roof © United Nations Children's Fund

In 1991, the enrollment ratio for girls in schools in Ethiopia was less than 12 per cent. Working with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and other donors, the Ethiopian government designed a program to enhance access and quality of education, especially for girls. Today, more than a decade later and through reforms stretching from rural communities to the national level, the ratio for girls has increased to 47 per cent.

26.07.2004

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Fourteen years after shedding an apartheid education system designed to serve a few privileged students in segregated classrooms, children of all races in Namibia are reaping the rewards of an integrative education system. Working with the government through the Namibia Basic Education Support, the U.S.-based Academy for Educational Development (AED) has developed created a program that centers on the student and involves parents and community members in school improvement activities and planning.

22.07.2004 When a middle-school teacher in Philadelphia accepted an invitation to visit some schools in Rwanda, she did not know what to expect. But when she saw the boys tease the girls in a class of 13-year old students, she realized the students are just like those in her class back home.

22.07.2004 A workshop for teachers from Cambodia, Myanmar, Lao PDR and Vietnam is to discuss the integration of ICT into science, mathematics and language curricula in schools. The “ICT-based Lesson and Material Development Workshop” in Bangkok will also discuss how to produce these lessons and test them in selected schools.

21.07.2004 Every child’s death – whether in Palestine/Israel or in Honduras - is a crime that leaves us all a little less human, write Bruce Harris and Esteban Castro of Covenant House/Casa Alianza. Yet few people know about the continuing Honduran urban murder of innocents.