Full coverage: Children

28.04.2005 Nei Paesi in via di sviluppo 600 milioni di bambini vivono in famiglie il cui reddito è di 1 dollaro al giorno, più di 100 milioni di minori, due terzi dei quali bambine, non vanno a scuola, circa 150 milioni di bambini e bambine soffrono di malnutrizione, 10 milioni ogni anno muoiono per malattie facilmente prevenibili e l’HIV/AIDS si sta diffondendo a ritmi vertiginosi. Questi dati sono contenuti nel rapporto che Save the Children ha presentato al Parlamento Europeo a Bruxelles. Il Rapporto sottolinea come l’Unione Europea, il maggiore donatore al mondo, solo in pochissimi casi ha avviato politiche espressamente rivolte ai bambini nei Paesi in via di sviluppo.

27.04.2005 The Pan American Health Organization on Monday launched a week-long initiative to prevent measles, polio, rubella and other diseases in the Americas through immunization. The focus this year is on indigenous groups especially those living in rural border areas.

27.04.2005 Centar "Humanitas" je u saradnji sa Telekomom Srpske 01.04.2005. god. započeo akciju pod nazivom "Za 500 osmijeha" sa porukom " DOBRO SE DOBRIM VRAĆA." Od 01.04. - 18.04. 2005. godine pozivom na humanitarni broj 1415 prikupljeno je samo 8343 KM, što je samo jedan od sto korisnika fiksne i mobilne telefonije.

26.04.2005 The Global Campaign for Education (GCE), which is a worldwide coalition of NGOs, has launched the Action Week (April 24-30) to remind world leaders of their promise that every child should have an education to escape poverty. The campaign will also petition the G-8 summit which will be held in UK in July.

26.04.2005 Java “Arsimimi për të gjithë” ka filluar të shënohet prej sot në Kosovë. Ky aksion iniciohet nga UNESKO-ja dhe zhvillohet në 110 vende të ndryshme të botës. Kryeministri Bajram Kosumi, priti sot një delegacion të fëmijëve, me ç’ rast u bisedua për rëndësinë që ka shkollimi në shoqëri dhe për angazhimet që po bëjnë institucionet tonë për përfshirjen në shkollim të të gjithë fëmijëve.

25.04.2005 In 2000, world leaders made a commitment to ensure that children everywhere are in school by 2015 by signing the Millennium Declaration. Five years later, those leaders are falling short of their target. Action Week (April 24-30) is a worldwide effort to remind them of their promise that every child should have an education.

25.04.2005 The Knit for Kids project has provided over 250,000 sweaters--crafted by volunteer knitters across the United States--to needy kids around the world. Joan McKeon, the 200,000th sweater knitter, recently visited recipients in an Azerbaijan orphanage.

22.04.2005 Java e Aksionit 2005 – Dërgoni Fëmijët në Shkollë, e cila ishte menduar të mbahet me 24-30 prill, është organizuar nën Fushatën Globale për Arsim, që organizohet në baza vjetore nga OXFAM (UK). Fushata për Maqedoni është koordinuar nga Ambasda e Parë e Fëmijëve në Botë – Megjasi.

22.04.2005 Action Week 2005 – Get the Kids to School, scheduled to take place April 24-30, is organized under the Global Campaign for Education, organized annually by OXFAM (UK). The Campaign for Macedonia is coordinated by the First Children Embassy in the World – Megjasi.

22.04.2005 Young people in South Africa and millions of children in more than 100 countries will join together this week to protest world leaders’ failure to meet a major UN target on girls’ education this year – a failure they say will lead to greater poverty and unnecessary child deaths.

22.04.2005 Toisin kuin yleensä kuvitellaan, maahanmuuttajatausta ei heikennä lasten koulumenestystä, totesi Matti Similä Britannian lähetystön monikulttuurisuusseminaarissa. Ruotsissa tehdyssä tutkimuksessa huonon koulumenestyksen selittäviksi tekijöiksi nousivat Similän mukaan sosiaaliset ja kulttuuriset ongelmat, mutta monissa tapauksissa maahanmuuttajat pärjäsivät jopa syntyperäisiä ruotsalaisia paremmin.

19.04.2005 UNICEF’s latest Progress for Children report says that though more girls are going to school worldwide, the gender gap in many regions is still very high. The report says the number of children not in school may have dropped for the first time, to below 100 million, but the world will miss the goal of universal primary education by 2015 unless there is a dramatic jump in the number of children who go to school.

18.04.2005 Podruznica Drustva za borbu protiv side Crne Gore CAZAS u Beranama, pod pokroviteljstvom humanitarne organizacije "Karitas Luksemburg", sprovodi projekat “Znanjem u srecniju buducnost”. Cilj projekta je edukacija mladih ljudi iz osnovnih i srednjih skola na teritoriji opstine Berane na temu bolesti zavisnosti.

15.04.2005 Agreements for the “Research of Humanitarian Law” Program will soon be signed between the Ministry of Education and International Committee of Red Cross, have claimed officials of the two institutions. Aim of this program is to adopt the humanitarian law in the secondary school curriculum.

15.04.2005 Currently, 104 million children are out of school, and 57 percent of them are girls. Many have never had the chance to go to school and half of those who did will never finish. During Education Action Week, Care USA urges you to contact your representatives in Washington; ask them to double U.S. support for basic education in 2006--from $400 million to $800 million--they say.

14.04.2005 HANSM is non-profit organization of single mothers and fathers, who exchange experience and information and provide assistance to single parents in Macedonia. The organization, however, is not there only for the parents, but works to assist the children and families that face similar problems and challenges.

12.04.2005 Il Movimento per la Salute dei Popoli, allarmato dalla designazione della Sig.ra Ann Veneman - precedentemente Ministro dell’Agricultura degli Stati Uniti - come nuovo Direttore Generale dell’UNICEF esprimendo forti preoccupazioni e invita a spedire una email-lettera di protesta in quanto "oltre alla non qualifica adeguata, la signora Veneman si è caratterizzata nelle sue precedenti esperienze per aver messo i profitti aziendali al di sopra del diritto dei popoli al cibo (Dichiarazione delle Nazioni Unite sui Diritti Umani, articolo 25). Una filosofia e una pratica di questo tipo ribalterebbero quasi sei decadi di orgogliosa storia umanitaria dell’UNICEF e sarebbero disastrose per i bambini del mondo". In qualità di negoziatrice dell’Accordo di Libero Commercio in Nord America (NAFTA), la signora Veneman ha contribuito a scrivere le regole che hanno gettato in povertà milioni di bambini messicani. La signora Veneman non brilla nenche per il rispetto dei diritti delle minoranze etniche negli Stati Uniti.

12.04.2005 Centar „Humanitas“ je u saradnji sa Telekomom Srpske otvorio akciju pod nazivom „Za 500 osmijeha“ sa porukom „DOBRO SE DOBRIM VRAĆA“. Akcija ima za cilj pomoć porodicama u ostvarivanju njene ekonomske snage, kroz prikupljanje finansijskih sredstava za kratkoročnu pomoć najugroženijoj djeci 12 Opština RS.

12.04.2005 The Council of Europe (CoE) and the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina on Tuesday reminded BiH authorities that the existence of 54 “two schools under one roof” is a blatant violation of the obligation BiH agreed to when joining the CoE, to eliminate “all aspects of segregation and discrimination based upon ethnic origins”.

08.04.2005 More than 20,000 boys and girls have been abducted from their homes and forced to become soldiers in Uganda's rebel Lord's Resistance Army over the past 19 years. Thousands of these children have found refuge at World Vision rehabilitation centers, receiving food and medical care and, most importantly a safe place to stay.