Full coverage: Children

20.10.2006 Fshati “SOS” përkujtoi 10 vjetorin e krijimit t tij ku në këtë ceremoni morrën pjesë Presidenti i Shqipërisë z.Alfred Moisiu si dhe Kryetarja e Parlamentit zj.Xhozefina Topalli.

20.10.2006 Kansainvälisen Pelastakaa Lapset –järjestö vetosi lapsiin kohdistuvan väkivallan vastaisena toimintapäivänä lapsiin kohdistuvan väkivallan lopettamiseksi. Väkivalta on myös suomalaislasten ongelma. Tuoreen Lastensuojelun keskusliiton tutkimuksen mukaan kolmasosa suomalaisista aikuisista hyväksyy ruumiillisen kurituksen, vaikka se on ollut lailla kiellettyä vuodesta 1979.

20.10.2006 The ban on employing children in restaurants, roadside eateries, hotels, and tea shops or as domestic labour, announced by the Government in August, has recently come into effect. Those who violate the ban will be fined and also face a prison term up to two years. This is a welcome move focussing on areas where child labour is rampant and where the exploitation of children is shockingly high.

20.10.2006 A report released by a US-based group says South Asia continues to face "critical" levels of hunger.

19.10.2006 Qendra për Mbrojtjen e të Drejtave të Fëmijëve në Shqiperi – CRCA në kuadër të programit “Ndal Punës dhe Trafikut te Femijëve në Shqipëri” organizon një Takim Koordinues me përfaqësues të organizatave jo-qeveritare që punojnë me/për fëmijët në Shqipëri.

19.10.2006 The Bihar government is eagerly waiting to know whether the norms on nursery admission as brought into place in New Delhi, would apply to the states as well. For, the norms put down by a Delhi High Court-appointed committee headed by Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) chairman Ashok Ganguly spell out a selection system which is completely in conflict with the Common School System adopted by Bihar which believes in equal access to education.

18.10.2006 UNICEFin raportti tutki entisten Neuvostoliiton maiden taloudellista kasvua keskiarvoja syvemmin ja totesi alueen lasten hyvinvoinnissa olevan jyrkkiä eroja. Hyvästä 1990-luvun lopun taloudellisesta kasvusta huolimatta joka neljäs alle 15-vuotiaista lapsista elää äärimmäisessä köyhyydessä Kaakkois-Euroopassa ja entisen Neuvostoliiton alueella.

18.10.2006 Almost 1,200,000 children listed in Maharashtra’s education department records are ‘missing’ from the classroom, a check by education inspectors has revealed. This means that in 2005-2006 alone the state squandered over Rs 725 crore on elementary schooling for children who either never existed or had long passed out of school.

18.10.2006 Shoqata VESTA nga Tuzla ka filluar implementimin e fushatës “Fushata e respektimit të të drejtave të fëmijëve dhe grave nëpërmjet projektit K.R.I.K. (Zhvillimi i Fushatës dhe koordinatori i Zbatimit). Projekti synon të sigurojë krijimin e një platforme në mbrojtje të të drejtave të grupeve vulnerabile të qytetarëve dhe të rrisë informimin e publikut në bosnjë mbi nevojat e tyre.

17.10.2006 El curso se impartirá en Guatemala. Es para niños y niñas entre los 9 a 15 años con el objetivo de fomentar el arte y las técnicas de periodismo.

17.10.2006 The VESTA association from Tuzla started the implementation of its “Campaign for respect of Rights of Children and Women through the K.R.I.K. (Campaign Development and Implementation Coordinator)” project. The project aims to secure the establishment of an advocacy platform for the rights of vulnerable groups of citizens and raise the public awareness in B&H about their needs.

17.10.2006 Generally speaking, ‘quality’ as a concept in education has eluded an acceptable definition. Some scholars have taken a bypass that defining quality is not particularly important and useful. Some have taken to poetic refuge, ‘as beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder, quality lies in the eyes of the customer’. Also like beauty is inherent in the object of the ‘beholding eyes’, quality is also ‘inherent in the product’

16.10.2006 Udruženje VESTA iz Tuzle je počelo realizaciju projekta "Kampanja za poštivanje prava djece i žena u BiH putem mreže K.R.I.K (Koordinatora za Razvoj i Implementaciju Kampanja)". Cilj projekta je obezbjeđivanje platforme za zagovaranje prava osjetljivih grupa građana i podizanje svijesti javnosti o njihovim potrebama u Bosni i Hercegovini.

16.10.2006 There are some good tidings for the Union Human Resource Development Ministry from its flagship enterprise, the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), to universalise elementary education.

13.10.2006 As education sector funders develop new patterns of collaboration they are re-directing support to education ministries or national budgets. Donor focus on formal primary education has been at the expense of support to adult literacy and other out-of-school programmes.

13.10.2006 Pelastakaa Lapset järjestön Eurooppa-ryhmä on julkaissut toimintaohjelman internetin laittomissa materiaaleissa esiintyvien lasten tunnistamiseksi. Interpolin tietokantaan on kertynyt vuodesta 2001 yli 500 000 kuvaa lasten seksuaalisesta hyväksikäytöstä. Yhteensä yli 20 000 lapsesta. Interpolin mukaan heistä vasta alle 500 lasta on tunnistettu.

13.10.2006 In the Asia-Pacific region, girls' labour, official and unofficial, continues to constitute a major obstacle to accelerating progress towards achieving gender parity and equality in primary and secondary education by 2015. This policy brief summarises the causes and consequences of girls' child labour on their educational opportunities and describes some of the instruments and strategies in place to reduce girls' labour.

13.10.2006 Sono 54 mila i minori assassinati nel 2002 mentre altri 223 milioni sono vittime di maltrattamenti e abusi sessuali e almeno 1,8 milioni sono costretti a prostituirsi o sono vittime della pedo-pornografia, 1,2 milioni sono vittime del traffico di minori e tra 100 e 140 milioni di ragazze hanno subito una mutilazione genitale. Sono alcune delle cifre agghiaccianti - e sottostimate - della violenza sui bambini nel mondo, contenute nel Rapporto del Segretario generale dell'Onu presentato oggi in contemporanea a New York e a Roma dall'Unicef e dall'Oms. Il rapporto segnala inoltre che sono 218 milioni i bambini lavoratori, di cui 126 milioni coinvolti in attività rischiose e 5,7 milioni in lavori forzati o imposti per estinguere un debito. Il documento indica che in almeno 106 Paesi ancora sono permesse punizioni fisiche nelle scuole, mentre tra l’80 e il 93% dei bambini nel mondo subisce punizioni fisiche a casa, anche se molti di loro non ne parlano per vergogna e mancanza di fiducia nella legge.

12.10.2006 Centarot za Detski Covekovi Prava od Albanija – CRCA, vo sorabotka so Ministerstvoto za Trud, Socijalna politika i Ednakvi moznosti, Drzavniot Sekretarijat na Ministerstvoto za Vnatresni raboti, i Sovetot na Evropa deneska organiziraa uspesna “Nacionalna Rabotilnica za zlostavuvanjeto na decata vo albanskite semejstva” .Rabotilnicata bese finasirana od Evropskata Unija.

12.10.2006 The Children's Human Rights Centre of Albania - CRCA, in partnership with the Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, General Directorate of State Police and the Council of Europe organised today successfully the National Workshop Child Abuse in the Albanian Family". The workshop was funded by the European Union.