Full Coverage: Children

31.05.2005 Former U.S. President Bill Clinton, in Colombo as a special UN envoy for Tsunami reconstruction, categorically called the abduction of tsunami affected children, by the LTTE, to be trained as child soldiers, a " Horrible crime."

26.05.2005 More than 75 people, mostly children, have died after drinking polluted water while another 6,600 have been hospitalised over the last six weeks in the Pakistani province of Sindh.

25.05.2005 The campaign for protection of children and minors from Traffickers in Human Beings was started by the UK based Save the Children organization, has the goal to start a synchronized action for early prevention of trafficking in children.

25.05.2005 Save the Children Norway, in cooperation with UNICEF B&H, conducted a survey on trafficking in children in Bosnia and Herzegovina. One of the activities of the project is the “Lean on Me” theatrical play, written by Bosnian writer Ferida Durakovic. The roles in the play are acted by child-actors younger than 15.

23.05.2005 The „Youth of the World, Youth For the World” video won the first prize at the Voices for Youth competition, ran by UNICEF.

23.05.2005 LeviÂ’s sends Amaranta Wright undercover in Latin America to find out how to entice kids to buy its clothes. Instead she exposes the truth about its tactics in her new book and sets up Bulb - an ethical lifestyle mag for teens. Daniel Nelson reports.

21.05.2005 The treatment of young asylum-seekers making their way through school or university can be particularly distressing. This campaign appeals to students to take action to encourage the authorities to apply the regulations with more humanitarian concern.

21.05.2005 How would you manage the essentials in life if you had no birth certificate? 40 million children in developing countries have no identity due to shortcomings in basic public services. Join the campaign for universal birth registration.

20.05.2005 Today, on the National OrphansÂ’ Day in Albania, an initiative was presented by a group of Albanian businessmen to open 460 saving accounts for children without parents and parental care. The ceremony was held at the Congress Palace in Tirana.

20.05.2005 A UN study on violence against children is conducting a consultation in Pakistan at which children from countries across South Asia have been the central participants. Here are their own recommendations to governments for putting an end to physical and sexual abuse.

19.05.2005 Due to outstanding public and Senatorial opposition, Steven Johnson, the nominated EPA Administrator, canceled the intentional pesticide exposure study using babies as subjects. Titled CHEERS, this study, partially funded by the pesticide industry, was slated to use children aged 0-3 as test subjects.

17.05.2005 From children abandoned in the streets to shoeshine boys struggling to find a customer and young girls selling their bodies for food and a few pennies, the effects of the AIDS pandemic are visible everywhere in EthiopiaÂ’s capital. Five years ago, social worker Yewoinshet Masresha founded the Hope for Children organization to provide more than just food and shelter for these orphans.

16.05.2005 Nicaraguan fruit plantation workers, exposed to the pesticide Nemagon used by Dole, Chiquita, and Del Monte in the 1970s, are today suffering from incurable illness and many of their children were born with horrific deformities. Though the chemical was known to be toxic to humans and banned in the United States, the companies continued to use it in other countries without disclosing the health risks. The workers have never been compensated.

16.05.2005 Bal Panchayat, a children's group from communities of CASP/Plan Delhi is organising the fourth National Convention on the Rights of Child from May 23 - 27.

15.05.2005 "I speak on behalf of the youth of the world and for the children and generations to come. Mr. President, I am 16. You were 16 in 1962. That was the year when the world held its breath..."

13.05.2005 The Children’s Parliament of Macedonia held its fifth simulation session at the Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia. At the session, which marked the official closing of the “Days of the Parliament” manifestation, the children adopted the Declaration Against Abuse of Children and the Declaration for Inclusion of Children in the Work of the Local Self-Government.

13.05.2005 Where would a mother receive adequate maternity care? Where would a mother see her children delivered by trained health personnel and likely live past the age of one? Which are the best and worst places to be a mother or child? The U.S. was ranked 11th out of 110 countries in the Mother's Index 2005, a yearly report by Save the Children. Where does your country stand?

11.05.2005 The Children's Human Rights Centre of Albania - CRCA is to present its concerns to the use of torture against children in Albania by state institutions since the ratification of the Convention Against Torture in May 1994.

11.05.2005 One of the by-products of the AIDS epidemic sweeping many African nations is the loss of knowledge; for example, with no one to teach them, rural children orphaned at a young age might never learn to farm. But the UN agricultural agency is now taking many of these children under its wings, teaching farming, business, and life skills to ensure another generation is not lost.

11.05.2005 The annual creative competition on European topics was organized on May 6, at the “Josip Broz Tito” secondary School in Skopje. The competition was organized by the European House – Skopje civic association, and under the Europe to School project.