Full coverage: Children

30.06.2006 For countless children and teenagers around the world football is more than just a game. It helps build relationships, it often allows children to overcome trauma by having fun and it's a way to ensure they grow up healthy, and full of self-esteem. Find out more.

27.06.2006 Alianza Por Tus Derechos ha presentado aproximadamente 400 denuncias ante la oficina del fiscal especial. Debido a la indiferencia e ineptitud del sistema judicial, que se culpa por obstaculizar los esfuerzos de poner fin al comercio sexual, la mayoría de los casos todavía no han sido enjuiciados.

27.06.2006 Upgrading skills did not result in solving the educated unemployment problem in India and Sri Lanka. South Asian economies or particularly those sectors of economies that employ educated people, did not expand much. There was also a mismatch between the qualities of labour force demanded by the market and those that were supplied by the systems of education and training.

27.06.2006 Arambh has taken up the challenge of getting BhopalÂ’s slum children to return to school. Scores of children attend its centres to study and re-enter the education system, at timings that best suit them, especially if they are working

27.06.2006 Appointment of good teachers is the key to success of any institution, and only the best should be appointed, the Governor, Surjit Singh Barnala, has said. He also said that good teachers are the key to well-educated students. To achieve better education, we have to begin with teachers.

26.06.2006 Qendra Sociale “Don Bosko” me anë të projektit “Fëmijët në rrugë” të financuar nga UNICEF synon integrimin e fëmijëve në nevojë. Projekti synon të realizoje rikthimin e fëmijëve të rrugës në shkollë, përfshirjen e tyre në jetën sociale të vendit, mbështetjen psikologjike dhe sanitare.

26.06.2006 UNESCO has offered to support the IT dissemination project of the State, Akshaya, in view of its potential to facilitate women's empowerment. The contents proposed to be developed relate to legal guidance, career guidance, Government schemes, health and welfare of mothers and children. Select Akshaya centres will receive aid, which includes research and training.

23.06.2006 Worldwide more than 211 million children aged 5 to 14 are passing through different forms of child labor. Three million Nepali children are working under extreme hardship. Laws were made, but have been left unenforced.

23.06.2006 Nine million refugee children in the world dream of a better future. The UNHCRÂ’s new campaign aims to help them realise their dreams by improving their lives in refugee camps through education and sport.
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22.06.2006 En la actualidad, el trámite para la adopción en Guatemala pone en riesgo de vulnerabilidad los derechos de los niños y niñas, pero estos riesgos se dan dentro de un marco formal de legalidad que la fragilidad del sistema permite.

22.06.2006 The Directorate of Literacy and Continuing Education of Rajasthan has been awarded the UNESCO's Confucius Prize for excellence in initiatives for marginalised adolescents in rural areas.

21.06.2006 Proclaiming a message of “zero tolerance” for child sex tourism in Sri Lanka, the United Nations is supporting a two-year action plan launched by the country’s tourist board to stop such exploitation, targeting visitors, children and adolescents, hoteliers, journalists, families and community leaders

21.06.2006 MOVING away from the traditional role of funding primary and elementary education, the UK Government’s Department for International Development (DFID) is making silent inroads into special educational projects run by the West Bengal Government by promising ‘‘technical assistance’’.

20.06.2006 Centar za ljudska prava djece Albanije zajedno s drugim važnijim nevladinim organizacijama koje se bave pitanjima prava djece i ljudskih prava u Albaniji organizirala je povodom Međunarodnog dana borbe protiv rada djece jučer protest pod geslom “ZAUSTAVIMO RAD I EKSPLOATACIJU DJECE U ALBANIJI”. Protest se odvijao ispred zgrade Ministarstva rada, socijalne skrbi i jednakih mogućnosti.

20.06.2006 Living in a Bhandup slum for the last 10 years, for Sunil and Kaushala, life is a daily struggle. But early this month, when their four-year-old elder son Baadal was admitted to hospital with symptoms of malnutrition, their little world came crashing down.

19.06.2006 Unable to win on the battlefield, the Taliban are trying to undo one of the biggest changes initiated by the Kabul government in the past four years: the resumption of education for girls, which the Taliban outlawed soon after taking power in 1996.

19.06.2006 Teachers of community primary schools wearing shrouds continued their fast-unto-death strike in the capital yesterday keeping their educational institutions across the country under lock and key in support of their demand for nationalisation of jobs.

19.06.2006 The Children's Human Rights Centre of Albania together with other major child rights and human rights NGO's in Albania on the occasion of International Day Against Child Labour, organised this morning a protest under the motto “STOP CHILD LABOUR AND EXPLOITATION IN ALBANIA”. The protest took place in front of the Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities.

19.06.2006 An educational support centre, started in the Giri Nagar slums, helps not only differently-abled children but also allows regular school-going children from poor families to find a foothold in society

19.06.2006 The Indian regulatory system is very much modelled on central planning. It assumes that regulatory agencies can second-guess the sectors where demand is likely as well as the appropriate content of education. Ironically, India met some demands of the IT sector, because a large number of private institutions managed to dodge the regulatory system by offering diplomas rather than degrees