Full Coverage: Children

27.12.2006 OXO non-governmental organization presente, for the night year in a row, the “eco”-calendars and teachers’ manuals that will be distributed to pupils and teachers in pre-school and elementary education institutions in Macedonia.

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26.12.2006 Universalisation of Elementary Education is a national goal for which Distance Education Programme is a national resource and major support for distance learning programme.

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20.12.2006 Nobel Laureate Professor Amartya Sen on Tuesday expressed regret that children have not gained from India’s economic growth and termed the high incidence of female feticide as a “national calamity”.

20.12.2006 Employment of children is a criminal offence under Section 14 of the Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act 1986. The employer can be jailed for not less than 3 months but which may extend to one year or with fine which shall not be less than Rupees ten thousand but which may extend to Rupees Twenty thousand or both

20.12.2006 from Treehugger blog:
Rudolph, his team and famous driver, may be unable to make a successful lift-off this year, due to the melting of his runway.

12.12.2006 The Children's Human Rights Centre in Albania - CRCA, under its Programme "Stop Child Labour and Child Trafficking in Albania", organized a two-day training course "Child Labour - The Problem and the Response", on December 7-8, 2006. The training course was funded by the Olof Palme International Centre and SIDA.

11.12.2006 A number of factors have led to a steady increase in the use of children as soldiers. Technological developments and the proliferation of weapons, especially small arms, have made semi-automatic rifles light enough to be used and simple enough to be stripped and reassembled by a 10-year-old child.

06.12.2006 The global diabetes epidemic is projected to affect 7 percent of the world's adult population by 2025 as developing countries embrace bad health habits associated with affluence.

06.12.2006 Given the governmentÂ’s complete failure to stop the hiring of children in hazardous industries, activists say the recent ban on child labour in the hospitality sector and as domestic help is likely to also prove ineffective

05.12.2006 The Youth Centre Livno , with the assistance of volunteers from secondary schools in Livno, organizes the „5 to 12 for 5+“ humanitarian action for most vulnerable families with five or more children. The action will start on December 5, the International Volunteering Day, and will end with a charity concert at the end of December 2006.

05.12.2006 Besides strict punishment for human traffickers, the parliamentary committee report also suggests that the government create a special fund for the welfare, rehabilitation, healthcare and education of sex workers and their children

04.12.2006 Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman the Planning Commission, Government of India, speaks with Shekhar Gupta, Editor-in-Chief of Indian Express on performance of present government plan.

03.12.2006 UNITED NATIONS, Dec 2 (OneWorld) - Independent humanitarian groups that work closely with the United Nations welcomed the world body's decision to call a high-level meeting next week to address the issue of sexual abuse against children by its peacekeepers.

01.12.2006 Pakistan and the US announced an elaborate programme to promote education at all levels in Pakistan with the US committing another $100 million in 2007 in addition to $200 million already provided.