Full Coverage: Children

27.04.2007 The First Children Embassy in the World – Megjasi, under the global week for inclusion of children in education process, implements the “Join Us! Right to Education NOW” campaign, that started on April 23 and will be implemented in over 100 countries in the world.

25.04.2007 NEW YORK, Apr 25 (OneWorld) - Human rights defenders across the world are making fresh calls this week for governments to get serious about ensuring basic education for all.

17.04.2007 Kerala has emerged as the top performing state while West Bengal finds itself in the bottom five (with Bihar in the last spot) in an official survey on the health of elementary education in the country in 2005-06. The District Information System for Education data, compiled by government think tank NUEPA, took access, infrastructure, teacher and outcome indicators into account to compute the Educational Development Index

10.04.2007 With two of every three children facing some form of physical abuse, an official study, "Child Abuse: India 2007," has suggested that the issue be placed on the national agenda. Fifty percent of the abusers are people known to the child or in a position of trust and responsibility.

03.04.2007 The 14th summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is slated to be held here in Delhi from April 3. This precedes the 28th session of the SAARC council of ministers.

02.04.2007 Right to Education Task Force (RETF) (A unit of Social Jurist) in association with Asha Vikas Pariyojna, Chetnalaya, Kiran Deep and others is launching "Chalo School Abhiyan" to mobilize the out of school children get enrolled themselves in government schools and study.