Full Coverage: Children

31.01.2007 Children caught up in crises around the world are being forced to wait for life-saving emergency relief as the introduction of the UNÂ’s emergency fund has created an extra hurdle for aid agencies striving to reach those most in need.

30.01.2007 The Children's Human Rights Centre of Albania-CRCA, a major children rights organisation, announced today that it has started the procedures to open a branch of the organisation in Prishtina, the capital of UN administered province of Kosovo(a).

25.01.2007 Bebac non-governmental organization launched a campaign to improve the status of pregnant women in Serbia, inviting the general public and the competent state institutions to respect the moral and civilized rules for treatment of pregnant women.

19.01.2007 The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, announced an aid of £200 million for the state-run Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan for universal elementary education.India's objective, which is that every single child has education, and the determination to achieve that by 2010, which is the next three years.

18.01.2007 The Children's Human Rights Centre of Albania – CRCA / DCI Section Albania announced yesterday, January 17, that it will organise the Tirana Children Rights Academy in 2007, the first event of its type to ever take place in Albania. The organisation of the Academy aims to bring children’s rights to the mainstream of human rights and academical level.

18.01.2007 On the eve of the coming Parliamentary Elections in Serbia (scheduled for January 21), Save the Children UK-Serbia invited all political parties to present publicly their plans of action in the area of legislation, policy and practice in the field of education and social welfare, in order to provide the children in Serbia to enjoy their guaranteed rights.

17.01.2007 from Rabett Run blog:
Apparently, anyone who knows anything about climate change is anti-American but the kids have a clue; they are open... so when do they take their stupid pills and turn into adults? asks Eli Rabett.

15.01.2007 A day after the Report to the Nation 2006 was presented to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the National Knowledge Commission chairperson Sam Pitroda said that the public sector telecom major BSNL could be sold and the proceeds invested in education.

15.01.2007 A year after the first Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) showed a thumbs down to the claims of Sarva Shiksha AbhiyanÂ’s claims, there seems to be some improvement now.

11.01.2007 United Nations monitors will begin counting weapons and soldiers of the Maoist army in camps across Nepal next week, and activists are concerned that the needs of women and children there could be overlooked

10.01.2007 Recognising the link between education and high priority social issues, a White Paper obtained by Dawn, states that only through education can a society achieve awareness, sensitisation and clarity of conception that can help cure it of the evils that retard its growth.

09.01.2007 The Government of Albania is to approve soon new procedures for the registration of NGO's in the country. This announcement was made few days ago when senior officials and consultants from the Ministry of Economy met with a small group of major NGO representatives to present and discuss the new changes in the law.

09.01.2007 With the Pakistan government considering the possibility of implementing the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) policy with help from the United Arab Emirates a debate rages whether the UAE would like to buy laptops that may be more than its budget. Fouad Riaz Bajwa in Pakistan analyses the OLPC policy.

08.01.2007 The Annual state of education report 2006-realased by planning commission chairperson, Montek Singh Ahluwalia-says little has improved in public school. The report also says children whose mothers are not educated are more likely to drop out from school and their learning ability is less. The report surveyed 3.18 lakh households across 90 percent districts in the economy

08.01.2007 Killings in Nithari have given a boost to a government effort to launch a website to trace missing children.A first initiative of its kind is a joint venture of the ministry of Women and Child Development and UNICEF. "We expect to put up a pilot project on the web soon," a UNICEF official

08.01.2007 A Budget focused on education, knowledge and skills is what the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) wishes for this year. The CII would also like to see, in the forthcoming Budget, the government to exercise fiscal prudence, reduce embedded tax rates and outline a roadmap for the implementation of Goods and Services Tax (GST) by 2010.

07.01.2007 from How to Save the World blog:
'The most effective way an individual can protect the global environment, and hence protect the well-being of all living people, is to abstain from creating another human being.'

04.01.2007 The use of ICT in school has the potential not only to improve education, but also to empower people, strengthen governance, open up new market and galvanize the effort to achieve the human development goal for the country. When it comes to computer education in rural primary schools, they still remain the stepchildren of the much-talked-about hi-tech wave that is sweeping the nation.

02.01.2007 WITH the aim to acquire 100 per cent literacy rate the UT Government had come up with 400 Adult Education Centers. The aim was to provide education to the underprivileged illiterate adults