Full coverage: Children

16.06.2006 With seven million fans expected to attend the current World Cup competition in Germany, the UN Children's Fund has expressed concern about the potential increase in trafficking of children and women into sexual exploitation during the event.

16.06.2006 According to a recent ILO report on child labour,there are 218m aged 5-17 years, who are employed; of this number, 126m are employed in hazardous work. The United Nations Children's' Fund says that the sheer volume of children engaged in work is living proof of the world's failure to protect them. Navdip Dhariwal reports on the situation in a south Indian state in BBC NEWS.

16.06.2006 The campaign, entitled Disaster Risk Reduction Begins at School, which is co-sponsored by the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR), aims to promote disaster reduction education in school curricula along with improving school safety by encouraging the application of construction standards that can withstand any kind of natural hazard.

16.06.2006 The mid-day meals scheme introduced in Rajasthan in the Government and Government-aided primary schools has had an affirmative effect on enrolment of children, particularly of the girl child, at the elementary level - a new study has indicated.

15.06.2006 Kalanjiam, a federation of women's self help groups in Vellore, has been instrumental in securing the release of 644 children from match and beedi units. For this, they have mobilised Rs.30,000 in savings to pay off the owners who had loaned paltry sums to the children and were holding them to labour until the money was repaid.

15.06.2006 In the course of the 20th century, universities throughout the world have become socially more and more inclusive. This is in marked contrast to what they were like till the middle of the 19th century.

15.06.2006 Maharashtra will soon become the first state in the country to make employing children a non-bailable offence.Amendments to this effect are currently being carried out by the stateÂ’s Labour and Law and Judiciary Departments

14.06.2006 Në kuadër të programit të CRCA “Ndal Punës së Fëmijëve në Shqipëri”, të financuar nga Palme Center dhe SIDA, CRCA organizoi në Tiranë, me 12 Qershor një manifestim paqësor me rastin e 12 Qershorit, Ditës Ndërkombëtare Kundër Punës së Fëmijëve, nën moton 'NDAL PUNËS SË FËMIJËVE NË SHQIPËRI'. Po ashtu një sërë organizatash të tjera joqeveritare organizuan aktivitete në rrethe për të sensibilizuar pushtetin vendor dhe publikun mbi këtë fenomen.

14.06.2006 Opštinski sud u Vranju doneo je presudu da Dom za decu bez roditeljskog staranja "Olivera Verica Đorđević" uplati 100.000 dinara na ime nadoknade štete, u slučaju zlostavljanja osmogodišnje štićenice tog doma.

14.06.2006 Burma's military regime comes under the spotlight of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) this week when its practice of forced labour will be scrutinized and acted upon.

13.06.2006 In the field of education there emerged various compulsions in the public provision of education, which have given rise to the growth of private educational institutions in the last two decades. The emergence of foreign education providers in India is an offshoot to the process of privatization and globalization of educational institutions.

13.06.2006 Public funded non-formal education has been in vogue in India from the 1970s. While NFE centres were meant to be a special bridge for underprivileged children to get back to mainstream schools, many are bereft of infrastructure, pay teachers less and teach students little.

13.06.2006 Encouraging statistics pointing to a decline in child labour do not conceal the fact that the problem remains a major challenge in large parts of the world, said the International Labour Organisation (ILO) on the World Day Against Child Labour.

12.06.2006 “Morte per diplomazia”: così Eric Sawyer, attivista sieropositivo americano, ha definito i risultati della II Conferenza dell'Onu sull’Aids conclusa la scorsa settimana a New York. A 5 anni dalla sottoscrizione di un piano globale per far fronte alla pandemia, che nel 2005 ha falcidiato quasi tre milioni di persone, la Conferenza dell’Ungass (la Sessione speciale dell'Onu per l'Aids) ha partorito infatti solo un documento non vincolante. “Scandalosa e mortale”, aveva stigmatizzato Kofi Annan la lentezza con cui i governi stanno affrontando il grande flagello che dagli anni ’80, quando fu scoperto il virus, ha mietuto più di 25 milioni di vittime. Nel mondo oggi quasi 40 milioni di persone soffrono della sindrome da immunodeficienza acquisita, il vero nome dell’Aids, e due terzi dei malati vivono nell’Africa nera. Si fa un gran parlare di Aids. Ma solo un sesto degli impegni sottoscritti nel 2001 con il primo Piano d’azione globale sono stati mantenuti. di Nicoletta Dentico

12.06.2006 Debido a la ola de violencia que enfrenta la sociedad guatemalteca, el Estado conformó un Escuadrón de Seguridad Ciudadana, el cuál fue integrado especialmente por ex soldados guatemaltecos.

12.06.2006 La prima cosa che colpisce è il suo sorriso. E subito, quando la incontri e la stai ad ascoltare per un po’, ti viene voglia di sapere qualcosa in più di lei, della sua vita, del suo lavoro. Kezevino Aram – “ma gli amici, ci tiene a dire, mi chiamano Vinu” – è pediatra e direttrice dello Shanti Ashram dal gennaio 2001; convinta gandhiana, è anche membro del Comitato Esecutivo della Conferenza Mondiale delle Religioni per la Pace. Avvolta in uno splendido sahri di seta ha partecipato, nell’ambito della manifestazione “Asia: questAltroMondo”, organizzata in occasione del World Social Agenda 2006. Cresciuta in un’India ancora piena di contraddizioni, ma sempre più decisa a migliorare la condizione sociale (Kezevino ha ricordato agli studenti che grazie agli investimenti nel campo della sanità, dell’istruzione e dello sviluppo in genere l’aspettativa di vita per le donne è raddoppiata negli ultimi 50 anni, passando da 32 a 64 anni) Kezevino rappresenta l’immagine di una donna che ha scelto di impegnare tutta la propria vita per il riscatto dei più deboli. di Alberto Conci

09.06.2006 Monet maahanmuuttajataustaiset vanhemmat kokevat hämmennystä kasvattaessaan lapsensa huomattavasti erilaisessa ympäristössä, kuin itse ovat kasvaneet. Väestöliitto on perustanut uuden mallin, jonka avulla pyritään tukemaan maahanmuuttajataustaisia vanhempia kasvatuskysymyksissä.

08.06.2006 AT LAST, there seems to be a realisation in the Information Technology (IT) and IT Enabled Services (ITES) sector that the industry must give back to education what it is taking away — the cream of graduates passing out every year.

08.06.2006 Asha works with many schools that attempt to provide quality holistic education to children from poor economic backgrounds. These schools come under a special category called Alternative Education schools (Alt-ed schools) because they seek to explore different alternatives in education.

08.06.2006 The right to education is at the very heart of UNESCO's mission and is an integral part of its constitutional mandate.