Full coverage: Children

30.06.2005 Students from across the U.S. are spreading the message to global leaders that children everywhere need access to education--and they are taking with them representatives of those who never get a chance to go to school, in the form of cut-outs known as "buddies." Follow the "buddies" on their travels to this week's G8 Summit activities, September's U.N. Summit on the Millennium Goals, and beyond!

29.06.2005 The Citizens’ Committee for Human Rights (CCHR) demanded from authorities in all levels of Government to define and implement, without any delay, the measures to protect the children located in Children Homes in Brezovica and Lug from possible abuse and neglect.

28.06.2005 Beyond the tourist havens of Buenos Aires and Patagonia, Argentina's economic fall-out is still visible: nearly 75% of children live in poverty and the political distrust--which cemented the economic collapse--continues as Kirchner’s administration is removed from the people. But in Tucumán, mothers team up to provide children with food and shelter--and alternatives to the gangs and drugs in their community.

27.06.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Jun 27 (OneWorld) - Six million children could be spared death from preventable diseases if the world's poorest countries spent just an extra $1.23 per person on immunizations and other basic healthcare, according to health researchers.

27.06.2005 Eleonora Veninova, Ivana Bidikova and Aleksandar Mickov Take Stage at PROMAX&BDA 2005 to Accept Top Prize in UNICEF's Voices of Youth 'Make a Difference' One-Minute Video Contest

24.06.2005 In a recent online discussion, Vernor Muñoz Villalobos, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education, offers revealing insights into how to end the inhumane practice that engages 246 million children in labor globally. View the compelling feedback to questions from people around the globe.

24.06.2005 The B.C. Teachers' Federation believes that equity and opportunity for all through public education is essential to maintaining a democratic society and the privatization of education creates a two-tier education system and threatens democratic values and practices, as well as social equity. A new privatization web page highlights the issues and the impact on the public education system.

23.06.2005 The Centre for Environment Education (CEE), an autonomous NGO of the Indian government is reaching out to schools all over the country with environmental education. One of its programmes - National Environment Education Programmes for Schools (NEEPS) - is run in collaboration with a number of partners all over India.

23.06.2005 In Bolivia il 39% della popolazione ha meno di 15 anni ed un impressionanente numero di persone inizia a lavorare in giovane età. Cosa riserva il futuro ad un paese con una grande quantità di giovani lavoratori? Non é necessario fermarsi molto in Bolivia per rendersi conto che la popolazione giovanile porta il suo contributo in ogni settore della vita economica. Nella città di Sucre, la capitale giuridica della Bolivia abitata da circa 200.000 persone, la presenza di bambini lavoratori è molto elevata: le urla di ragazzini in età preadolescenziale negli autobus, l’offerta dei lucida-scarpe e le attività dei giovanissimi, che vendono giornali per la strada.

23.06.2005 The government is acting as though the possibility of child trafficking into the UK lies in the realms of tabloid exaggeration. But UNICEF says that this is a real problem in need of urgent action.

22.06.2005 For preschoolers in some Las Vegas neighborhoods, the sight of the big white bus with black cow splotches brings cheers. As they scramble aboard, these children enter a classroom that ensures they know the basics--letters, colors, and numbers--before they start school.

22.06.2005 The Young People's Commission for Africa was established by 2 UK charities to give children a chance to input to the G8 summit. 52 schools in Africa and the UK took part. Education and protection from violence head the list of priorities.

20.06.2005 The quality of programmes sent in for the ABU-UNESCO TV Documentary Exchange this year has seen a significant improvement from material submitted in previous years.

20.06.2005 Youth from around the globe are traveling to Scotland to take action on the most pressing issues facing young people today, firmly placing their opinions and recommendations in the hands of G8 leaders. Created by UNICEF, the first C8, or "children's summit," will blend together the voices of children from G8 countries as well as eight of the world's poorest nations.

17.06.2005 The Second Children's World Congress on Child Labour and Education will be held in New Delhi from September 4-8, 2005 by Global March Against Child Labour and hosted by Bachpan Bachao Andolan. The Congress aims to empower children to lead worldwide efforts to end child labour and to ensure free, quality education for all children.

17.06.2005 It is exactly now 29 years after the massacre of thousands of children who marched against the compulsory teaching of Africans and many injustices perpetrated against children in schools in Soweto, South Africa during the Apartheid Era. 16 June 1976 marked a new era for the African child, an era of deep thoughts, feelings, emotions and vision. An era that made the world over sympathise with the African child more - a child born and bred in a continent not only plagued by poverty but by disease and both natural and man made disasters.

17.06.2005 Las autoridades guatemaltecas registraron la muerte de 1.188 mujeres y niñas entre 2001 y agosto de 2004. Sin embargo, se desconoce el número exacto de mujeres asesinadas, y no hay tampoco acuerdo en torno a él. La cifra varía según las instituciones y se establece con criterios distintos.

17.06.2005 To achieve gender equality, combat HIV/AIDS, and increase child and maternal health, we must support local approaches that build on a community's moral beliefs and faith, said International Women's Health Coalition President Adrienne Germain recently.

16.06.2005 As Africa celebrates the day of the African child, many children in Africa are faced with a desperate situation of poverty, illiteracy, disease and conflicts.

16.06.2005 A new programme is launched in Bangladesh to promote Information and Communication Technology education and skill building in rural areas.