The report presents a mixed picture. Over the past 25 years, there have been notable improvements in child well-being in the group of countries examined in this report: steady decline in child mortality, overall reduction in adolescent suicide and increase in school completion rates. But the last five years have …
RIO DE JANEIRO: Heavy rains over the past month have created a fertile breeding ground for mosquitoes carrying the dengue fever virus, deepening a crisis that has claimed at least 80 lives in the state of Rio. The dengue strain ravaging this tropical city is believed to be stronger and …
Exploring the impacts of mining on children in India includes both children working in the mines and children affected by mining, for example, through displacement due to new mining projects or the effect of mining on their health. Samata and HAQ: Centre for Child Rights have initiated this process of …
At a time when they should be going to school, weavers' children are helping their parents to make ends meet. Since able-bodied adults are mostly busy with loom work, and elderly people are unable to perform fine work due to failing eye sight, children are roped in for making new …
ON January 15, the production licences of three vaccine-manufacturing public enterprises under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoH&FW;) were cancelled, and they were ordered to suspend production forthwith by the then Drug Controller General of India (DCGI), M. Venkateswarlu, for reasons of non-compliance with good manufacturing practice (GMP) …
WWF holds conservation carnival Our Staff Reporter Karachi - World Wild Fund (WWF)-Pakistan's Nature Carnival in collaboration with Global Conservation Organisation (GCO) organised an annual event on Sunday to create awareness among school children by practically involving them in fun-and-learn activities. A large number of School children along with their …
The Consumers International (CI) battle against marketing of unhealthy food to children has gathered support from domestic groups as well. The London-based CI is an independent consumer network with over 220 member organisations in 115 countries. Ahmedabad's Consumer Education and Research Centre (CERC) and Chennai's Consumers Association of India have …
The cashier counts the currency notes carefully, makes an entry in the passbook and hands it over to the waiting customer through a tiny window. But this is no ordinary bank - as both the cashier and consumer are actually street children. The Bal Vikas Bank, or Children's Development Bank …
In 2008, World Health Day focuses on the need to protect health from the adverse effects of climate change. WHO selected this theme in recognition that climate change is posing ever growing threats to global public health security.
Two minor girls died of measles in Ubauro area of Ghotki district on Saturday. Their brothers are also suffering from the disease. Relatives said that they had told the medical superintendent of the Ubauro hospital about the disease but nothing was done to save the girls' lives. Relatives of the …
It seems the state Government has made a total mess of the Central funds meant for children under the Supplementary Nutrition Programme (SNP). According to the latest CAG report, the SNP has been nothing but a story of not just diversion of funds and materials, but also of shortfall of …
DELHI Migrants might be causing uproar in some parts of the country but photo-journalist Harish Tyagi sees their lives in an entirely different light through his lense. In an exhibition titled Distress Migration and its Effect on Children, Tyagi's pictures tell an often-sor
It is not possible to totally stop the water in the WASA's supply line from being made dirty due to lack of continuous and full pressure of water in the pipeline which results in the seeping in of waste into the pipes due to negative pressure, said LGRD and cooperatives …
With a view to achieving sanitation for all by 2010, eco toilets will be set up soon in 4500 unions of the country. This was stated by LGRD Adviser Anwarul Iqbal while addressing a press briefing at Cirdap auditorium in the city yesterday on the eve of the launching of …
Minister recommends packaged food as mid-day meal in schools The world is increasingly veering away from including processed, packaged food as a regular dietary feature
School going children have developed a culture of taking junk foods in the name of fast food although such junk foods that contain excessive fat and carbohydrate are bad for health. At a discussion with the school going children at the University Laboratory School and College in the city yesterday, …
* Seventy percent of the world's surface is covered by water but 97.5 percent of that is salt water. Of the remaining 2.5 percent that is freshwater, 68.7 percent is frozen in ice caps and glaciers. Less than one percent is available for human use. * More than 1.2 billion …
Taking vitamin D supplements in infancy may help a youngster ward off Type 1 diabetes, according to a review of the evidence released on Thursday in a specialist journal. Doctors in Britain looked at five studies in which children were monitored from infancy to early childhood to see if vitamin …
Social sciences are vastly neglected in the country. So it's refreshing when a school organizes a history exhibition. The Thanjammal Memorial Elementary School in Tiruchi organized one such exhibition. It covered primary class' syllabi of social sciences. The countless years and wars in history were made easy by pasting chronologically …
