Full Coverage: Children

30.11.2006 Popular soap opera that portrays a mother in search of a school that will accept her daughter as just another student has sparked a public debate in Brazil on whether or not children with Down's syndrome should be enrolled in standard schools.

29.11.2006 In commemoration of Universal ChildrenÂ’s Day, some 120 young people from different ethnic groups visited Albanian Mosques and Serbian Orthodox Monasteries, as part of an awareness raising activity promoting respect for religious sites among the youth in Kosovo. Rick Spruyt reports for World Vision from Kosovo.

28.11.2006 Opportunities to pursue education are dependent upon the availability of adequate access. In the nation as a whole, primary educational facility is available to only to about 70-80 % of the eligible age group ( unto 14 years) of the children. Some of the states are not fortunate to reach even this capacity.

28.11.2006 The Tehelka Summit of the Powerless session on Equal Education saw panelists attack the Central governmentÂ’s lackadaisical approach to education, especially primary education.

28.11.2006 O Selo Unicef é um reconhecimento aos municípios que obtiveram resultados positivos nos seus esforços de melhoria da qualidade de vida de crianças e adolescentes. A iniciativa é desenvolvida em parceria com os governo federal, estaduais, municipais e entidades da sociedade civil integrantes do pacto Um mundo para a criança e o adolescente do semi-árido brasileiro.

24.11.2006 The Parliamentary Sub-Commission for Juveniles and Equal Opportunities in cooperation with the Children's Human Rights Centre of Albania – CRCA, organised on November 21.2006, an open public hearing on children's rights situation in the country. CRCA was supported for this activity by Olof Palme International Center and SIDA Sweden.

24.11.2006 An Approach Paper of the Planning Commission says that a set of national testing standards and a chain of institutions that test and evaluate children would help monitor and improve quality of learning.

24.11.2006 Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has decided to launch a satellite education programme in schools across the country from next year.An initiative of the vocational education department, CBSE, specific lessons would be transmitted through satellite from various regional offices of the board under the programme.

21.11.2006 KATHMANDU, Nov 21 (IPS) - Even before Maoist leaders could assign their soldiers to camps as part of the peace deal ending Nepal's 10-year insurgency, United Nations officials appeared on the doorstep Monday warning that children will not be allowed into the cantonments.

21.11.2006 Being a mother of young children lowers her wage or salary. Barely anybody would disagree with this claim. But how large is the impact of motherhood on women's wages and salaries? Now a new study by the Finnish researcher Jenni Kellokumpu brings a new clarity to the issue. Motherhood's negative impact on the wages and salaries of mothers of young children is significant.

21.11.2006 There has been a growing realisation that a system-wide transformation is crucial for the attainment and sustainability of the goal of UEE and MDG with improved quality. The objectives of improved access and increased participation, reduced drop-out rates and enhanced learning achievements cannot be met and sustained without improving the quality, effectiveness and efficiency of teacher in the elementary education system.

21.11.2006 Government forces, rebel groups, armed militia and mercenaries operating in conflicts in at least 12 countries recruit children to serve as soldiers or are responsible for murdering, torturing and committing sexual crimes against them, according to a new report from Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

20.11.2006 In their campaign against child labour, UNICEF has pasted posters bearing Chunchun's photograph all over Bihar. But Chunchun is still working as a child labour in a roadside dhaba in Patna (India)

20.11.2006 Union Minister of State for Women & Child Development Renuka Chowdhury wants the ban on child labour eased to allow them to pick up traditional crafts and skills such as carpet-weaving within the family structure. She even says international laws banning purchase of the products of child labour are insensitive to regional issues and that India has signed on to them without thinking through the issues properly.

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15.11.2006 Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called for concerted efforts to improve the welfare of children, particularly those with special needs and the girl child. He was addressing a special gathering of 700 destitute, orphaned, trafficked and mentally and physically challenged children after presenting the National Child Awards for Exceptional Achievements 2005 to mark Children's Day.

14.11.2006 On the eve of Children's Day, 80 children and representatives from schools
and NGOs met to deliberate on this question in New Delhi. The group comprised of activists of the "Nine Is Mine" campaign - an initiative of children, schools, communities and organizations across 15 states of Indiato ensure that the government commits 9% of the GDP to public expenditure on Health & education, as promised in the National Common Minimum Program.

14.11.2006 Another Children’s Day is here, but do the little ones care when they have the entire year to themselves! Life is a mad whirl, flitting from one object to another — toys, video games, TV, clothes, fast food, parties...there is so much to choose from. But the spontaneity of a child’s laughter is diminishing as growing up gets fast-tracked.

14.11.2006 The United Nations ChildrenÂ’s Fund (UNICEF) today called on governments and others committed to universal education and gender equality to remember that the earliest years are the most critical for childrenÂ’s development.