Full Coverage: Children

30.11.2005 Starting with next school year, the pupils in Montenegro elementary schools will be introduced to a new subject in the Curriculum, called “Healthy lifestyles”. This initiative was launched by Montenegrin organisation for combating HIV/AIDS – CAZAS. Yesterday, CAZAS representatives announced the completion of the first phase of the project “Healthy lifestyles against drug abuse”.

30.11.2005 U narednoj skolskoj godini ucenici crnogorskih osnovnih skola susresce se se novim predmetom pod nazivom “Zdravi stilovi zivota”. Inicijatiba je potekla od crnogorskog Drustva za borbu protiv side Crne Gore - CAZAS koji su juce prezentovali zavrsetak prve faze projekta “Zdravi stilovi zivota protiv zloupotrebe droge”.

30.11.2005 The absence of information technology is not limited to rural schools alone. The analysis, presented in the National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA), said that overall, the percentage of computers at primary schools is as low as 3.95.

29.11.2005 As a part of its ongoing campaign to impart sex education to the adolescents, the Population Education Cell (PEC) of SCERT has taken up interaction session with parents and other professionals of all walks of life.

29.11.2005 The recently published research report ‘The price of childhood’ shows that multinationals outsourcing cotton seed production to Indian farmers pay far too little to enable them to hire adults.

29.11.2005 Children as young as 14 are helping to sell drugs in local communities, a charity report said.
*Report on drug selling in England

29.11.2005 Students of Delhi University, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Jamia Millia Islamia in the Capital now have the option of finding out their HIV/AIDS status within the confines of the university clinic where all the data would be kept confidential.

28.11.2005 Povodom Dana invalida, 3. decembra, Zavod za skolovanje i rehabilitaciju invalidne djece i omladine u Podgorici organizovace turnir u sahu i stonom tenisu. Direktor ove ustanove Milos Vujicic navodi da ce na turniru ucestvovati i djeca iz osnovnih skola “Vuk Karadzic” i “Oktoih”, kao i da ce slabovidim i slijepim ucenicima Zavoda, koji su pohadjali kurs za racunare, bice urucena uvjerenja o zavrsenom kursu. Takodje, za taj dan ucenici ce prirediti i prigodan kulturno-zabavni program.

28.11.2005 The world is set to miss its target of getting as many girls as boys into schools by the end of this year, the UN children’s fund (Unicef) said on Friday. In a new study, Unicef said that efforts to achieve gender parity in primary education were off track, despite progress in many nations.

28.11.2005 Bangladesh govt planning to introduce 'unified education system' at the secondary level.The system that intends to replace the existing compartmentalized methods of education---- students are allowed to take up science, commerce and humanities subjects at class nine--- with an unified education system at the secondary level from the next academic year.

28.11.2005 India is fast becoming home to a large number of children affected with HIV/AIDS, but there is hope of a longer life for them, according to a study published in this week’s issue of Lancet, the reputed medical journal.According to the study conducted by the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, US, adequate zinc levels are essential for growth and to enhance immunity in children who test positive for HIV.

26.11.2005 The world has failed in an important step towards achieving educational equality for girls this year: 46 countries will not meet international goals for gender parity in schools set for 2005.

25.11.2005 Cecilia Flores-Oebanda, president and executive director of the Visayan Forum Foundation, has been awarded this year's Anti-Slavery Award for her work on child domestic labour in The Philippines.

25.11.2005 An estimated three million girls in sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East undergo genital mutilation every year, but the practice could be eliminated within a generation, says the UN Children's Fund.
* Razor's Edge - The Controversy of Female Genital Mutilation, OneWorld TV

25.11.2005 Globalization changed the apologetic manner of the state. Government officers attended seminars, generally organized by NGOs, and declared unabashedly that the government could not do everything and that the private sector must step in to help. . The reality, however, was that expenditure on education was around two per cent of Pakistan?

25.11.2005 Children staged skits to highlight miseries of child beggars and working street children, urging their parents to take care of their offspring by admitting them to the Centre for Street Children to make them useful citizens. The function was arranged by Terre des Hommes (TDH), a Switzerland-based NGO, at the Centre for Street Children here on Tuesday, to observe the Children’s Rights Day.

25.11.2005 The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has announced a set of new initiatives to bring in 'transparency, accessibility, accountability, quality and equity' in the functioning of the institute.

24.11.2005 The Institute for Social Work and Policies at the Faculty of Philosiphy in Skopje, with the support of the UNICEF Office in Macedonia, presented the report Evaluation of Policies, Situation and Programmes for the Street Children. The report was prepared by professor Divna Lakinska.

24.11.2005 South Asian tsunami caused widespread destruction and loss of lives and livelihood in the coastal areas of Tamilnadu and Pondichery last winter. OneWorld South Asia and Plan International brought its integrated media training to the east coast region of the Indian Peninsula to train children and youth on using various media to voice their community’s concerns.

24.11.2005 The inaugural ceremony of the 19-22 November, 2005 International Council for open and Distance Education (ICDE) International conference was held in the historical place-the Jawahar Lal Nehru Memorial Museum and Library. Prof Dikshit expressed his satisfaction on the role played by distance education and said that information technology has made it possible to provide best education to the remotest part of the countryAuditorium.