Full Coverage: Social exclusion

27.01.2006 The Albanian Children's Alliance (Tirana Region) and CRCA Children's Club Against Child Labour, under the framework of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the plan of activities of both NGO's, organised a football match with children and pupils of School 'Dhora Leka' in Tirana.

27.01.2006 The recording of the firts radio programme in Romani language intended for broadcasting on the B&H Public Radio Service, was completed at the Media Plan Institute in Sarajevo. The Amaro Drom Project (Our Way) was prepared by ten young Roma men and women who completed the three-month training at the Institute.

23.01.2006 About 60% of the citizens of Leskovac estimate that the competent state institutions are inefficient in processing of the criminal offence of violence in the family and that the state bodies lack the capacity to solve the problem, report the representatives of “Zenski Centar” (Women Centre) the results from a recent poll.

19.01.2006 Anju Chhetri, born in a lower-middle class family in Biratnagar, in Nepal, was drawn towards women-oriented journalism when, as a student of history, she found that women were either excluded from historical accounts or grossly misrepresented. Understanding full well that she could not rewrite history in the absence of well-documented historical sources or the resources for historical research, she decided to write the 'history' that was available to her -in the form of journalism.

10.01.2006

10.01.2006 The 500 companies listed on Norway's stock exchange face being shut down unless they install women on their boards over the next two years in a radical initiative imposed by a government determined to help women break through the ‘glass ceiling’, say Gwladys Fouché in Oslo and Jill Treanor in The Guardian.