Full Coverage: Children

31.08.2007 The second Internet Governance Forum is taking place in Rio de Janeiro from 12 to 15 November, the participants of the event will gather in Geneva at the Palais des Nations on Monday, 3 September to discuss the details of the agenda and programme of the four-day meeting in Brazil.

30.08.2007 The government of an Indian state, Rajasthan has started putting in place a plan to make Jaipur a WiFi city by providing wireless Internet access throughout the city, as was announced by the Chief Minister in the budget speech earlier this year.

24.08.2007 The monsoon floods in north Indian state of Bihar have been overwhelming in magnitude and severity compared to previous years. Women and children are the vulnerable victim and face the continuing challenge of surviving in such a critical scenario.

22.08.2007 Philippines based firm TechFactors Inc has developed edutainment software to make technology education interactive and fun for children.

21.08.2007 Save the Children in Sri Lanka and Save the Children Sweden launched their latest publication ‘Bridging the Gap’. The documentation is an important contribution to the development of Save the Children's understanding of the immediate living environment on the protection and care of children in emergencies.

20.08.2007 The Brunei Ministry of Education has allocated US$5.9 million fund for Information Technology project, which will connect students in Brunei schools.

13.08.2007 The Abel T Motshoane School in Mabopane, North of Pretoria in South Africa has become the first in the country to have a wireless network technology by implementing mobile e-Learning infrastructure and teaching skills in the school.

09.08.2007 Intel Corp. ties up with three Indian PC vendors, including HCL Infosystems Ltd., Wipro Ltd., and Zenith Computers Ltd to assemble the Classmate PC. The company will start shipping the product to Indian schools in September, 2007 which will be sold only to schools and not through retail channels to consumers.

09.08.2007 An Indian NGO Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA) has rescued 129 child labourers from New Delhi in 2005 and filed the case in The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to register the children under the Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act 1976. After 2 years the commission grants the issue of release certificates and asks for their rehabilitation.

08.08.2007 The Indian Minister of Communication and Information Technology has announced that about one lakh broadband enabled service centres will come up in the country by March, 2008. He added that one centre will come up for every six villages with all e-governance services.

07.08.2007 A recent publication by Save the Children UK says the effects of global warming will hit the most children in developing countries. The report hopes to make public feel the scale of threat faced by future generations that is often left unacknowledged.

06.08.2007 The 'Stop Child Labour - School is the best place to work' campaign has prepared a draft report 'Proposed Action Plan to Combat Child Labour - 15 Recommendations for Companies'. The campaign is inviting comments from companies as well as from stakeholders to assist them in combating child labour effectively.

05.08.2007 WASHINGTON, Aug 5 (OneWorld) - Breastfeeding within the first hour of life can drastically reduce the number of early childhood deaths in developing countries, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) said this week, adding that more than one third of child deaths occur during "the first fragile month of life."