Full coverage: Children

30.09.2004 Sangath, an NGO working for the welfare of children, is organising an in-depth 12-day workshop from 25th October to 6th November for teachers and parents on understanding learning disabilities and intervention skills.

30.09.2004 An international rights groups says that young offenders imprisoned in the tribal Areas of Pakistan, are subjected to degrading and inhuman punishment.

30.09.2004 According to a joint UN-government report, educational prospects for Afghan children have improved in recent years, though much work remains to be done to compensate for decades of conflict.

30.09.2004 Afghanistan along with WHO and UNICEF recently organised a polio vaccination programme for a million children, below five years of age, in most provinces.

30.09.2004 Rag pickers and deserted children in New Delhi, the capital city of India, will now enjoy basic lessons and health care facilities to be provided by the local municipal body.

29.09.2004 According to national statistics for 1997, in the case of rural girls, 13.5% of 5 to 17 year olds do not have access to school. Thus, despite relatively high levels of enrolment, some rural and indigenous girls are still excluded from education.

29.09.2004 Para promover maior integração entre os jornalistas e pessoas ligadas a entidades de defesa dos direitos da infância e adolescência dos 9 países que compõem a Rede ANDI América Latina, a ANDI lança hoje, dia 24 de setembro, o boletim eletrônico Reseña America Latina.

29.09.2004 Microsoft India is planning to expand its IT education project, in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, to enable access to technology for students at an early age.

29.09.2004 Microsoft India is planning to expand its IT education project, in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, to provide access to technology to students at an early age.

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Where the victim of a crime or atrocity is underaged, justice is incomplete if it simply punishes a criminal without psychological, medical, social, and educational rehabilitation for the child. The International Criminal Court protects and takes steps to rehabilitate child survivors while prosecuting perpetrators of unnecessary deaths and suffering for children.

29.09.2004 Join NetAid and CARE relief effort in Darfur by sending Sudan Action E-cards. For every five cards sent, $1 will be allocated from the NetAid World Schoolhouse Fund to finance CARE’s relief work which includes, distribution of UNICEF school-in-a-box kit to refugee children and teachers.

28.09.2004 The Azim Premji Foundation, an Indian NGO, has come forward to help the west Indian state of Gujarat improve its quality of school education by providing free-of-cost, specially designed pictorial software.

28.09.2004 Nepal has launched a massive public health campaign in assistance with UNICEF and WHO with the aim of saving the lives of 2,500 children each year against measles that affects more than 10,000 annually.

28.09.2004 Le Bilan fait lors de la célébration de la troisième édition de la journée internationale contre le travail des enfants révèle en effet que le fléau résiste aux actions menées pour le combattre. Aussi bien au Bénin que dans le monde tout entier, l’enfant continue d’être soumis aux travaux des adultes hypothéquant ainsi son avenir, celui de son pays et de toute l’espèce humaine.

27.09.2004 The Supreme Court of India has asked the union as well as the state governments to take preemptive measures in schools so that a tragedy like the one in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu, which claimed the lives of 90 children, does not reoccur.

27.09.2004 Tulika Books was started as a children’s book publishing house in 1996. It has broken new ground in promoting reading as a habit among children in India. Managing editor, Radhika Menon, who introduced a number of innovations - starting a specialised children’s book distribution company, Goodbooks and a trust running a Teacher’s Centre -tells Divya Chandel of OneWorld South Asia, that political interventions in textbooks and curriculum have to be resisted in every possible way.

27.09.2004 ActionAid India has launched a series of cards on child rights - ‘Emotions’, to mobilise funds for marginalised children. Renowned artiste CD Jain has painted the cards.

24.09.2004 Large numbers of children in Burkina Faso and Mali are migrating in search of work in gold mining and domestic service. These extreme forms of exploitation damage boys’ and girls’ health, leaves them vulnerable to abuse, and prevents them from gaining an education.

In response to such harm to children’s rights, Save the Children UK and partner NGOs have developed a project which uses awareness raising, skills training and the provision of alternative income generating activities to stop children from leaving their village homes in search of work. This article explores lessons learnt from this project.

24.09.2004 Many children in Macedonia go to bed hungry, and 42 percent live in poor families. Over 80% of all girls have suffered some form of post-traumatic stress, while the estimates are that 10% of the boys and 16% of the girls have suffer from deteriorated health.

24.09.2004 The incidence of breast feeding decreasing in India is a cause of worry as it not only provides nutrition to infants, but also provides immunity against infections and many diseases later in life.