Full Coverage: Children

31.08.2006 Recycling paper is one of the many steps towards forest conservation and environmental degradation – we all talk about it, but how many of us really get down to doing anything about it? School students in Indian capital New Delhi, with help from an NGO, show the way.

30.08.2006 The task force on education, set up by the Orissa government to prepare its Vision-2020 document, notes in its report that for three years, 27 high schools in the state have showed ‘Nil’ results.

30.08.2006 It is nearly two decades since the Indian government banned child labour in Firozabad's bangle and glassware industry and created a law to rehabilitate thousands of children who had now been plucked out of factories. The reality is that the schools are shabby with no furniture and no teaching materials and many children continue to work in the factories.

29.08.2006 Children from nearly 70 countries are meeting in Malaysia this week to discuss ways to protect the world's forests, as part of a conference sponsored by the United Nations Environmental Programme.

24.08.2006 The Children Parliament of Macedonia demands from the Government to take appropriate measures to solve the problems in education in the country that directly impact the rights of children, especially their right to education.

24.08.2006 Save the Children appealed to all actors in Montenegrin political scene to give priority in their political platforms and agendas to the improvement and protection of children rights.

21.08.2006 The World Bank Group has approved a $40 million loan to Ghana, to support the implementation of selected components of the government?s Information and Communications Technology, (ICT) for Accelerated Development Policy.

21.08.2006 Serbian organization the PeopleÂ’s Parliament became a member, in beginning of August, of the Stop Child Poverty global campaign.

18.08.2006 The enabling legislation to ensure the fundamental right to education to Indian children has been watered down yet again, with Indian government deleting a crucial clause on quotas for underprivileged children in private schools, in the model Bill that it has sent to states for their feedback

17.08.2006 A new beginning at Deepalaya - a beginning with which education will reach working children who may otherwise not have access to school. With the support of the Edukans Foundation, Netherlands, a Mobile School was dedicated to the children residing in the slums around Shalimar Bagh and working in the industrial establishments around.

17.08.2006 It is widely acknowledged that a significant proportion of children, especially those from underprivileged backgrounds and girls, either drop out of primary school or even if they attend school, learn very little. Moreover, there is a wide gap in learning achievements between government schools and private/aided schools.

14.08.2006 The UNICEF Regional Office for Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CEE/CIS) has launched the Reference Guide on Protecting the Rights of Child Victims of Trafficking in Europe, a new tool designed specifically for use by those working to protect children victims of trafficking within the European region.

14.08.2006 Social attitudes towards adoption in Rajasthan reflect a medieval mentality. A vast majority of abandoned children are girls. In the past decade over 90 per cent of childless couples in Rajasthan wanted to adopt only baby boys.

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11.08.2006 The Rajasthan government is planning to make education up to Class XII compulsory for all, State Higher and Technical Education Minister, G S Tiwari, said. He also mention that the required legislation is being drafted and would be put before the cabinet sub-committee for approval.

09.08.2006 The refurbished and adapted Centre for children with special needs, financed by the State Budget (1.7 million Denars) and the Phare Programme (1.6 million Denars), reopened for use last Thursday, August 3. The Centre, with capacity to receive about 20 children with special needs, was opened by Stevco Jakimovski, the incumbent Minister of Labour and Social Policy.

08.08.2006 The International Council for Open and Distance Education -ICDE and The Brazilian Association for Distance Education - ABED organising four days conferance on distance education. It will be held on September 03-06, 2006 at Brazil.

08.08.2006 The Maharashtra government has taken a step forward in taking information technology to remote areas that do not have formal educational institutions. Mobile vans are set to bring computer literacy to people in these areas.

07.08.2006 Opinion is divided on the question of private education and like all issues in Sri Lanka groups that are able to arouse emotions end up raising hell needlessly.
The most important question that anybody should keep in mind is that while the Government offers Free Education it does not mean that the Government is bound to offer jobs as well.

07.08.2006 CRY – Child Rights and You welcomes the Ministry of Labour's recent notification that bans children below 14 from working in residences and the hospitality sector but feels it's an insufficient response. Gaps exist. CRY CEO Ingrid Srinath writes in this article that this notification cannot be effective without proper enforcement and rehabilitation provisions. For real change root causes have to be addressed.