Full Coverage: Children

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.

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.

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 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.

19.04.2005 UNICEFÂ’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.

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 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.

05.04.2005 UNICEF has released an anti-trafficking handbook for parliamentarians and has urged them to protect children from trafficking, exploitation and abuse.