Full Coverage: Children

26.04.2006 OTTAWA – « Les deux tiers des mères ayant des enfants de moins de trois ans travaillent à l’extérieur du foyer pour faire vivre leur famille. Les trois quarts des mères ayant des enfants âgés de trois à cinq ans travaillent à l'extérieur du foyer. Plus de la moitié des enfants sont confiés à des services de garde d’une forme ou d’une autre. Devant ces faits, les gouvernements fédéral et provinciaux du Canada ont le devoir de veiller à ce que nos enfants aient accès à des services sûrs et de qualité », affirme Ken Georgetti, président du Congrès du travail du Canada.

26.04.2006 The Albanian Coalition for Children's Education, which includes 10 major child-rights organisations in the country, opened officially in Tirana 25 April 2006 the Campaign "Every child needs a Teacher", which in Albania is organised under the motto "Every child needs a qualified teacher". The campaign in Albania is part of the Global Campaign for Education, which takes place all over the world between 24-30 April and this year it is dedicated to teachers.

26.04.2006 With stress levels among people on the rise and tempers flaring up easily, it is time for 'peace education' in schools and the NCERT is all set to train teachers in conflict resolution techniques and ways to undermine violence and aggression.

26.04.2006 Even as the number of out-of-school children has been brought down to 13.5m over the last four years from a high of 25m, the issue of quality of education still remains to be tackled in its entirety.

26.04.2006 The Global Action Week under the global campaign for education in the state kicked off with these astounding figures and quite understandably, the topic of the week begining April 24, this year is ‘Every child needs a teacher’.

25.04.2006 The Global Campaign for Education says that if all children have to be provided with an education, the world needs 15 million more teachers. Right now over 100 million children still are not aware of the possibilities that education offers.

25.04.2006 In a debate I sponsored last week in the House of Lords, Estelle Morris pointed out: "The subjects we teach, what we call them, how we arrange them in the school day and even the amount of time we allocate to each discipline area has barely changed in almost a century."

20.04.2006 Civil NGO will screen four documentary films, under the joint title “My First Shot”, on the language and culture of arms, filmed by children and youth from Skopje and Tetovo. The screening will be held tonight (April 20, Thursday), at the Children Theatre Centre in Skopje’s Old Bazaar. The screening starts at 19:30 hours.

20.04.2006 This innovative project, jointly launched by Salesians Society and Navjeevan Trust with the active support of the Chandigarh Administration.

20.04.2006 The Dakshina Kannada and Udupi district unit of Jamiyyatul Falah will undertake an education awareness campaign during 2006-07. The organisation set up in 1988, with the objective of undertaking educational programmes, has decided to construct a community hall on its premises in Kankanady for the purpose

19.04.2006 50 million babies go unregistered every year in the developing world, which maens they are denied healthcare, education, a nationality and protection from abuse. Help put pressure on governments in South Asia and Africa to register children.

19.04.2006 Lina Kosturova-Unkovska, Director of the Centre for Psychosocial and Crisis Action, has worked on post-conflict stress and trauma treatment, as well as community development through activities designed for children, since the start of wars in former Yugoslavia. The interview was taken from Gragjanski svet newsletter.

19.04.2006 Ingrid Srinath, Chief Executive of Indian NGO Child Rrights and You (CRY) says that nearly half of the Indian children are malnourished, one-third are out of school and two million will die from utterly preventable causes even though the country is experiencing unprecedented economic growth and has aspirations to global stature.

19.04.2006 Even as the dance bar controversy continues to engage government attention and fill media space, a tragic tale unfolding in rural Maharashtra has gone largely unnoticed.

17.04.2006 Students from Other Backward Classes are much better off than their counterparts in the Muslim, Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe communities, a national survey on school dropout rates has found.

12.04.2006 WASHINGTON, D.C., Apr 11 (OneWorld) - Investors concerned about illegal child labor on West African plantations are demanding that Hershey Co. spill the beans on where the candy maker gets its cocoa.

10.04.2006 The European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI) presented, last Friday, Coexistence in Schools: Different and Yet the Same, its new programme for multiethnic tolerance and respect for diversity.

05.04.2006 Tuesday, March 28, 2006 (Reasi):Unemployment and poverty drove a family in Jammu and Kashmir to sell their Children.

05.04.2006 Unemployment and poverty drove a family in Jammu and Kashmir to sell their 12-year-old son Joginder for only Rs 8,000. And it's not just the pain of giving away a child that the parents had to deal with. Joginder died two months after he was sold.

05.04.2006 Are we, as a country, becoming more sensitive to the issue of female foeticide and sex selection practices? Pamela Philipose in The Indian Express clearly puts forward some key issues under debate.