Full Coverage: Children

30.12.2005 The Sangam is an association of 56 groups of children across the city, involved with Arunodhaya's initiatives, getting together to voice their rights. Their requests to the Government include checking pollution, proper drainage systems for sewage and rainwater, disposal of garbage and removal of encroachments

30.12.2005 In a big step forward to make the ambitious mid-day meal scheme for children more attractive, HRD ministry has asked state governments to mobilise mothers to monitor the cooking and feeding of the meals.

29.12.2005 With the international community expressing concern about the high maternal and infant mortality in India, Union Health Ministry is looking at inter-ministerial partnerships to tackle the problem. Instead of running parallel programmes the ministry and the Department of Women and Child Development have decided to converge at the village level.

28.12.2005 In the controversial adoption of the 500 orphans of the quake-hit Uri and Tangdhar case, the J-K High Court (HC) today directed the state government to verify credentials of the Pune based non-governmental organisation (NGO) that has adopted them.

28.12.2005 The controversy that the 104th Constitutional Amendment Bill generated nearly obscured another significant Bill: The Commission for Protection of Child Rights Bill, 2005, which was passed in Parliament. It proposes to set up a National Commission for Protection of Child Rights both at the national level and Commissions at the State level.

28.12.2005 A plan to send children living in relief camps to schools in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province was put on hold this week, as the children were still too traumatised to enter any building with a solid roof overhead.

27.12.2005 Widespread poverty and ignorance are forcing more than half the number of children of Danuwar community at Bhimtar village in Sindhupalchok out of schools. They can instead be found wasting their time fishing.

27.12.2005 Members of the Belgaum District Midday Meal Scheme Workers' Association launched an indefinite agitation in front of the zilla panchayat office against the privatisation of the scheme.

27.12.2005 The course aims at equipping students with skills to handle any problem they come across in their day to day life. They should know about required preparedness to face any terror threat, Patanjali Dev Nayar, the chairperson of the group said

26.12.2005 Director, NCERT, Prof Krishan Kumar shares his views about the Democracy, modernity, and the Indian child. He mention that at present, our schools act like factories, forcing children into a fixed, preconceived mould. They stifle natural curiosity and creativity. The fruits of democracy and modernity will remain elusive if education is not structurally adjusted to the needs of the rural poor.

26.12.2005 The high dropout rate is very common in the District Primary Education Programme (DPEP), if the Parliamentary Standing Committee's observations are to be believed.

23.12.2005 The World Population Foundation (WPF) has urged the government to amend syllabus to make it more suitable for adolescents.The WFP, is actively involved in helping the adolescents in Pakistan since 1998.

23.12.2005 Village elders and circumcisers in a Tanzanian community have been arrested in a campaign against female genital mutilation that has saved 500 girls from the knife this Christmas.

23.12.2005 The latest research of the Children's Human Rights Centre of Albania - CRCA, issued few days ago under the title “Child Abuse in the Albanian Family” has been now made available on line. All the interested parties should visit www.crca.org.al.

22.12.2005 The Children's Human Rights Centre of Albania – CRCA and the Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities organised today the national workshop 'Child Labour: National and Local Mechanisms for the Elimination of Child Labour in Albania'. The workshop was supported by the Olof Palme International Center, a long-term partner of CRCA.

22.12.2005 One year after the tsunami changed their lives, children in India, Sri Lanka and Thailand feel hopeful about the future, while children in Indonesia are recovering at a slower pace, according to a UN Children's Fund survey.

21.12.2005 The daily newspaper Georgia launched a paper to help develop journalism skills among its youngest readers. Kids Today will be a 12-page, full-color weekly newspaper.

21.12.2005 Director, Madras Centre for Research and Development of Community Education, Xavier Alphonse, S.J shares his views about the community college and livelihood. In this opinion piece he mention that the community colleges aims at helping the disadvantaged find employment in collaboration with the local community and industry.

21.12.2005 The recently launched Child Labour Helpline is proving quite effective in hyderabad. Based on complaints received on it, district officials swung into action and rescued seven children, including a boy, from bonded labour after raids on several houses in city.

21.12.2005 The economy of Darfur is in steep decline, conditions are worsening even for those in areas previously unaffected by direct fighting, and continuing violence is "ghettoizing" the region as communities are paralyzed by fear. The key to security for DarfurÂ’s children lies with the Abuja peace negotiations, says UNICEF.