Full Coverage: Children

29.09.2006

28.09.2006 Meena Day 2006 was celebrated in Dhaka and around the country on Saturday September 23rd. The theme of Meena Day this year was: Chhele Meye bibhed nai, jonmo nibondhon shobar chai meaning 'Birth registration for all, be it a boy or girl' - to draw attention to the priority the Government of Bangladesh has attached to Universal Birth Registration by 2008.

28.09.2006 A toll-free telephone helpline for children in distress is now available in 72 cities.
Supported by the Women and Child Development Ministry, "Childline" number 1098 is available round-the-clock and it could be accessed either by a child or an adult.

27.09.2006 An Indian activist has alleged that Indian enforcement agencies are not being able to stem the disappearances of millions of children all over the country. He fears that missing children are being pushed into begging or forced work.

26.09.2006 The Children’s Human Rights Center in Albania – CRCA, held in the premises of Hotel Tirana International a public ceremony to award three journalists with the Child Rights Media Award 2005, and to introduce the official opening of Child Rights Media Award 2006. The event was funded by Olof Palme International Center and SIDA Sweden.

25.09.2006 The core question addressed in this paper is what explains the large inter-state disparity in child malnutrition as
manifested in stunting in India⎯ranging from 22 to 56 per cent. A perhaps surprising finding is that inter-state differences in child stunting are not directly correlated to differences in income poverty. The variables with the highest explanatory power for stunting are child health-care provision and the fertility rate.

21.09.2006 Schools in every district of the state have been found guilty of pumping up enrolment figures in order to comply with teachersÂ’ wishes and retain government funding

21.09.2006 The local governments have been urged to give top priority to education, health and drinking water in their budgets and to improve public delivery system in order to strengthen democracy at grass-root level

21.09.2006 Indian NGO Toxics Link has said that soft PVC toys are a threat to young children as these contain dangerous levels of lead and cadmium. The research was done on samples taken from Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai.

19.09.2006 More than 43 million children living in countries wracked by war and armed conflict are being left without the chance to go to school, according to a new report published today by Save the Children.

19.09.2006 For children with learning disabilities in Mumbai, school life has just become a little easier with Maharashtra issuing a government resolution spelling out concessions for students with dyslexia (reading disability), dysgraphia (writing disability), dyscalculia (disability in carrying out mathematical calculations) and dysnomia (dictation disability).

19.09.2006 The Indian government has failed in its constitutional duty to protect children say CSOs. Ahead of the Eleventh Five-Year Plan period (2007-2012), they urge the Planning Commission to focus on issues of abuse and exploitation and allocate funds to ensure mechanisms for child protection.

19.09.2006 The World Development Report, relesed at the World Bank's annual meeting in Singapore, says there is an urgent need to invest in the youth in the developing world. It says countries which invest in better education, healthcare, and job training for their record numbers of young people between the ages of 12 and 24 years of age, could produce surging economic growth and sharply reduced poverty.

14.09.2006

Child carrying a slate

In low-income countries like Tanzania where half of the population lives in extreme poverty, child labor is considered as a means of survival for many families and not necessarily abuse.

12.09.2006 National efforts for acceleration of girls education and reduction of the gender gap are getting a major boost with the launch of Business Partnership for Girls Education here on Saturday that marks the beginning of a novel tripartite coalition between government, private sector and UNICEF

12.09.2006 The model Right to Education Bill runs into one more hurdle as states find the financial burden of the Bill too high.IndiaÂ’s draft bill on the right to education is in a financial logjam once more with the states saying they cannot implement the Bill unless they receive financial assistance from the Centre.

12.09.2006 The Delhi University Teachers Association (DUTA) in its general body meeting unanimously decided to demonstrate against the Human Resource and Development Ministry's move to convert higher education into a freely tradable service under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), to increase fees and to commercialise education.

12.09.2006 The Human Resource Ministry in collaboration with the National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA) is set to closely monitor the credentials of over 1.04 million schools.

11.09.2006 Stating that the Planning Commission and Union Ministries concerned must bring issues concerning protecting children from abuse, exploitation and neglect into focus, non-government organisations working in the area launched their "Protecting Children in India: A Proposal for the 11th Five Year Plan'' report.

11.09.2006 In India where poverty and food insecurity haunt one-third of the population, education remains a distant dream for many. Elementary education is a higher value of life, higher than food needs and social security for a large number of people. The main challenge for us is to create a demand for elementary education in a society that is besieged by a variety of problems. In such a scenario the role of teacher is important