Full Coverage: Children

28.02.2006 In 2005, the Ministry of Justice, in collaboration with Save the Children UK program in Montenegro and Professor Radoje Korac, PhD, Law Faculty, department for family law, formed a working group to develop a draft Law on the protection from violence in the family.

27.02.2006 Inclusive education is a vital part of discussion on developments in education at both national and international levels. The earlier system of segregated education, or special schools for children with disabilities, was a reflection of care, not rights or entitlements. It is now believed that this should be replaced by inclusive education with emphasis on rights, equal opportunity and participation.

26.02.2006 During the run-up to the budget, Mumbai Mirror speaks to people from various fields to ask them about their expectations from the Finance Minister P Chidambaram.

26.02.2006 Education is an engine for the growth and progress of any society. It not only imparts knowledge and skills, and inculcates values, but is also responsible for building human capital which breeds, drives and sets technological innovation and economic growth.

26.02.2006 Educomp Solutions Ltd launched smart class programme .These digital classrooms are controlled by a knowledge centre set up in the school premises, which would serve as a repository of content. With a storage capacity of almost 106 gbs, the server will route the desired content to the respective classrooms through a campus-wide cable network. The teachers can use digital resources like graphics, animations, 3-D images and video clips extensively.

26.02.2006 Unsafe, unhygienic and unkempt are not words you want to associate with your child's school. But if a recent survey of Municipal Corporation of Delhi-run schools in the Jahangirpuri area is anything to go by, it's a reality that hundreds of children live with every day.

26.02.2006 Total spending in primary education has fallen by 14 percent as a percentage of the total education allocation during the period of 93-94 to 2003-04 although in absolute term the spending has increased.

24.02.2006 The Children's Human Rights Centre of Albania – CRCA, a major child-rights organisation in the country, issued today its latest report on the situation of child labour and street children. This is the very first in-depth research-report published by a national organisation in Albania, on the situation of the rights of child labourers and street children in Albania. The research is funded by Palme Center and SIDA Sweden, as part of the programme 'The Rights of the Child a Democratic Right'.

24.02.2006 Association of Kerala Government College Teachers (AKGCT) has said that the moves of the State and Central Governments to gradually withdraw from the education sector will have far reaching consequences.

24.02.2006 Special children, instructors and parents associated with 32 institutions in the chennai city took out a rally to draw attention to the lack of governmental interest in the mentally disabled.

24.02.2006 Concerned over the tardy progress in human rights education in the country, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) is preparing dossiers for creating awareness in the field among university-level students.

23.02.2006 While the decentralisation and community empowerment as rhetoric continue to consider the role of the school head as critical, the ground reality is altogether different. The place of the government primary school teacher is invariably at the lowest rung in the official hierarchy, and commands practically no authority even within the school. The position becomes even more untenable when providing leadership to the school if the school.

23.02.2006 World Vision is hosting exhibition of an award-winning photojournalist Nick Danziger's photographs on MDGs and their impact on people especially children who are living in extreme poverty, suffering from hunger or who are victims of injustice and inequality. The focus of exhibition is to increase awareness on MDGs and their impact on Asia.

23.02.2006 An award-winning photojournalist Nick Danziger travelled to eight of the world's poorest countries Armenia, Bolivia, Cambodia, India, Honduras, Niger, Uganda and Zambia and there photographed many people especially children who are living in extreme poverty, suffering from hunger or who are victims of injustice and inequality. World Vision hosting exhibition of these picture tob raise awareness about Millennium Development Goals and to emphasize their impact on the development of children in various cities of Asia. Delhi will host it on 22nd - 24th March 2006 at Foreign CorrespondentsÂ’ Club of South Asia, New Delhi.

23.02.2006 A new fund will support women's health organizations around that world that have been cut off from U.S. aid because their stance on abortion is not in line with the Bush Administration's. The U.K. has already pledged $5 million.

22.02.2006 Save the Children is working to assist children and families in the central Philippines following a huge mudslide that killed hundreds of people in the village of Guinsaugon.

22.02.2006 A new multinational fund that will leverage long-term commitments from rich governments to raise urgently needed financing for health programmes in poor countries is "close to implementation", it was announced yesterday.

22.02.2006 District Magistrate Amrit Abhijat has issued show-cause notices to five assistant basic education officers for poor quality of construction of school buildings and classrooms in the district.

22.02.2006 IT industry is keen to see the government “doing something proactive and substantial” to give a push to the education and infrastructure sectors in the coming Budget, Nasscom President Kiran Karnik said.

22.02.2006 The time has come for public and private providers of education to work out strategies for the development of higher education in Indian, said Consortium of Educational Communications chairman Dr G D Sharma.