Full Coverage: Children

30.11.2007 When Nicholas Negroponte unveiled an idea for bridging the technology divide between rich nations and the developing world in 2005, it was captivating in its utter simplicity. The idea was to design a $100 laptop and get it into the hands of 150 million of the world's poorest schoolchildren.

29.11.2007 Meet survivors Lisa and Resma in a photo essay by UNICEF – two nine-year olds in Barisal district, who are working hard with their families to recover what they lost in the devastating storm.

28.11.2007 Bill and Milinda Gates Foundation has extended a grant of 100 million dollars for polio eradication worldwide. The grant will target Afghanistan, India, Nigeria and Pakistan, the last four countries in the world where fresh cases of polio still keep surfacing.

21.11.2007 Aid agencies have put the total death count at over 5,000 – more than half being children – four days after Cyclone Sidr wrecked Bangladesh’s southern coast. An estimated 400,000 children under the age of five have been affected by the fatal storm in Bangladesh, with many drowning or being injured by falling trees.

21.11.2007 No scholarships or unemployment allowance to the disabled, no financial assistance to widows, no juvenile shelter homes, no primary school for the deaf, no home for mentally retarded, no leprosy complex and no disbursement of funds to old-age homes. Despite availability of funds, the social welfare schemes of the Delhi government are in a shambles.

16.11.2007 A two-day Sub-Regional Conference in support of Global Literacy organised by the UNESCO will be held from November 29 at New Delhi. The First Ladies of 10 countries — Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Maldives, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan — have been invited to attend.

14.11.2007 An extensive campaign aimed at taking Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to street boys in Rwanda will be launched. In fact, Africa as a whole is going to gain through projects in which at least US $ 300 million will be invested.

14.11.2007 On the eve of ChildrenÂ’s Day in India, a petition signed by 300,001 children was submitted to the government, demanding 9% of the Gross Domestic Product to be invested in education and health.

14.11.2007 Watch Gudia, an eight-year-old Indian girl in Jammu, scavenging engine oil at an auto workshop. A slide show by Reuters.

14.11.2007 The recent visit by the Queen of Netherlands to a school for slum children, run by Delhi based NGO Deepalaya, brought cheer to young lives. The children shared their experiences and talents on personal cleanliness and healthy living with the royal visitor.

12.11.2007 Give One Get One (G1G1) campaign starting this week hopes to boost orders by providing an incentive to people in more prosperous countries. For every laptop donated for a child, the donor would get one in return. The campaign is backed by Google, Intel, eBay, News Corp and Advance Micro Devices.

08.11.2007 The benefits of breast-feeding continue long after your baby has stopped it. If researchers are to be believed, breast-feeding protects your kid against developing heart disease even in adulthood.

07.11.2007 Susan Smith of the National Confectioners Association responds to OneWorld's article on fair trade chocolate for Halloween.

07.11.2007 Tamil Nadu State Government in India has made school text books available online. Readers can access the text books on the government website.

05.11.2007 The upcoming Internet Governance Forum will focus on child protection and child pornography, among other critical security issues. Government representatives, the private sector, civil society and the Internet community will gather to debate the future course of the Internet later this month in Rio de Janeiro.

05.11.2007 Children of mothers who work overseas are most likely to be subject to Commercial Sexual Exploitation (CSE), says a leading child protection group in Sri Lanka. There are currently 40,000 commercial child prostitutes in the country, with most of them working in the coastal areas.

02.11.2007 More than 40,000 Bhutanese children of Nepalese origin have grown up in refugee camps in Nepal after their families were stripped of citizenship. These children, suffering from poor health and social biases, want better lives for themselves.