UNICEF Innocenti's Report Card 17 explores how 43 OECD/EU countries are faring in providing healthy environments for children. Beyond children’s immediate environments, over-consumption in some of the world’s richest countries is destroying children’s environments globally. This threatens both children worldwide and future generations. To provide all children with safe and …
Alliance with UNICEF in question even though the Ministry of Women and Child Development is yet to take a decision on the conflict of interest between public-private partnerships and government policies, the ministry has launched a five-year programme on child welfare in collaboration with unicef in seven states. unicef, which …
Participants in a workshop on Wednesday urged the poultry farm owners to take adequate bio-security measures to check spread of bird flu. The avian flu can be checked only by ensuring bio-security at poultry farms, they told the workshop held at Natore civil surgeon
Chennai DESPITE various schemes and programmes being offered to improve nutrition and child well-being, the National Family Health Survey III conducted in 2005-06 has revealed startling statistics about the level of child nutrition in the State.Over 70 per cent of children in the State aged between six months and three …
Rs. 1 billion drinking water supply scheme, benefiting about 50,000 people in the Hambantota District affected by drought for 8 months of the year, built by UNICEF will be declared open by President Mahinda Rajapaksa and UNICEF Resident Representative in Sri Lanka Philippe Duamelle on Friday (29). Minister of Water …
Aarti Dhar Five-year plan to also ensure safe water and sanitation, besides child protection Setting new goals: Minister of State for Women and Child Development Renuka Chowdhury with Representative of UNICEF Karin Hulshof during the launch of the GoI-UNICEF programme of co-operation 2008-2012 in New Delhi on Thursday. NEW DELHI: …
The government of India and the Unicef today launched a five-year (2008-2012) action plan to help India combat the challenges of excessive malnutrition, high infant and maternal mortality rates, lack of quality education, safe water and sanitation. With seven years to go for the realisation of millennium development goals (MDGs), …
Elite schools lend campuses to poor children Every noon a merry bunch of children from low-income colonies of Jamshedpur cross the Subernarekha in a boat to study at the elite Carmel Junior College. They get dedicated teachers, books and a clean campus without paying exorbitant fees. Some even get vocational …
Migrant child labour at Attur pegged at 38,000; officials say agriculture not under Child Labour Act Salem G Rajasekaran AGRARIAN crisis may have forced farmers to switch over to Bt cotton much against the warnings of environmentalists but not without unacceptable fallouts. For 10 months after UNICEF brought out the …
Hundreds of millions of people will still not have access to sanitation by 2015 as the UN's Millennium Development Goals are "badly off track' on this topic, the World Health Organisation warned Thursday. "We are badly off track' to meet the MDG on improvements in sanitation, WHO coordinator for water, …
Lalit Shastri SHIVPURI (M.P.): A health revolution is in the offing in Guna and Shivpuri where the District Health Societies are trying to put the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) vision into practice. They are working together with the State Government and the UNICEF to create a model for "continuum …
State-level workshop held in Jaipur JAIPUR: Experts attending a two-day State-level workshop on Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) and School Water Sanitation and Hygiene Education (SWSHE) here over the week-end underscored the significance of maintaining cleanliness in schools, which they said would ensure higher enrolments and retention of children, especially girls. …
- International experts, invited to Pakistan by the Federal Health Ministry for technical review and guidance in the wake of number of polio cases reported in Sindh province, has stressed urgent measures and have held the district leadership as the key to give polio eradication drive a shot in the …
UNICEF and UN-ISDR evince interest in the computer-based game; plan to take the idea forward Taking a cue from the established fact that learning is best acquired if taught in a fun manner, Pune-based Neeti Solutions Pvt Ltd has devised a new version of the timeless game Snakes and Ladders. …
The Centre for People's Empowerment and Equality (CPEE) at a meeting of its executive committee here on Sunday expressed concern over rising number of polio cases in the country, particularly in Sindh, as 11 confirmed cases were reported in the first half of the year. The meeting of the CPEE …
Local Government and Community Development (LGCD) Director General Tahir Husain has announced Rs20million for the development and survey of water problems in Punjab at a seminar on arsenic monitoring and mitigation here on Tuesday. Organised in conjunction with the government of Punjab and the UNICEF, the seminar discussed the findings …
Some 330 babies of less than one month of age die in the country everyday while eight million or 48 per cent of the children below five years are underweight. This is the state of child survival in Bangladesh as revealed in a global report launched by UNICEF, which still …
