IPS Inter Press Service – Children Under Siege Feed Summary:
The U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child provides a universal framework for protecting and realising children’s rights. People of faith have joined together as the Global Network of Religions for Children (GNRC) to do their part; in May an international Forum in Hiroshima will have three themes: promoting ethics education to stop violence against children; putting children first in human development; and empowering children through ethics education to protect our planet.
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Children Under Siege - INTER PRESS SERVICE (11.05.2012 04:30h): War Widows Turn to Sex Work in Sri Lanka
On May 18, some 800 women in Sri Lanka's northern region will hold Hindu religious ceremonies for the welfare of thier husbands who disappeared or surrendered to the military as it moved in to mop up nearly three decades of armed Tamil separatism. [
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Children Under Siege - INTER PRESS SERVICE (10.05.2012 05:37h): Palestinian Children Labour for Little in Israel
"It's tiring," says 15-year-old Ibrahim*, deep lines running across his forehead. "But there is no alternative." Only a teenager, Ibrahim has been working full-time for three years already. [
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Children Under Siege - INTER PRESS SERVICE (08.05.2012 16:12h): Women and Children Look to Community Justice
A new community justice programme being rolled out in Papua New Guinea's vast village court system is bringing international human rights-based laws to rural communities and boosting the protection and
empowerment of women and children. [
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COLOMBIA (08.05.2012 12:56h): Saving the River Basin, One Schoolchild at a Time
"Out of love for the river, we reforest, recycle, and make this place beautiful," says a sign welcoming visitors to the Floragaita school, where a balsa Ochroma pyramidale tree with enormous white flowers guards the entrance to the lush green grounds on a hill in the heart of Colombia's Andes mountains. [
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Children Under Siege - INTER PRESS SERVICE (07.05.2012 13:45h): Caste Blocks Revamp of Nepal's Sex Workers
Social activists say that attempts to rehabilitate sex workers in this former monarchy call for special efforts to uplift the Badi, a Hindu caste that has for centuries been associated with entertainment and prostitution. [
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Children Under Siege - INTER PRESS SERVICE (03.05.2012 23:32h): New Projects Dispel Myths and Spread the Truth About Vaccines
In northern Pakistan, one in ten children dies before the age of five from diseases such as polio, measles or hepatitis, despite the availability of vaccines. And while health workers feared visiting this region, which includes the mountainous Swat district controlled by the Taliban until 2009, local people also fear the potentially life-saving vaccines. [
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Children Under Siege - INTER PRESS SERVICE (03.05.2012 15:45h): Epidemic of Premature Births in Rich and Poor Nations Alike
Fifteen million babies, or more than one in 10 infants, are born prematurely each year. Over one million die soon after birth, or survive to face a lifetime of health complications, says a new report by the World Health Organisation and co- sponsors. [
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Children Under Siege - INTER PRESS SERVICE (02.05.2012 18:33h): Morocco Still Divided Over Marriage of Minors
The widespread practice of marrying minors continues to be one of the most incendiary legal and political issues in Morocco today, causing open confrontations between hard-line Islamists and moderates throughout the country. [
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Children Under Siege - INTER PRESS SERVICE (01.05.2012 22:07h): Bangladesh Scores on Girls' Schooling
Bangladesh continues to score good grades in achieving the Millennium Development Goal MDG of gender parity in education by 2015, with the trend of more girls than boys attending primary school accelerating this year. [
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Children Under Siege - INTER PRESS SERVICE (29.04.2012 12:07h): Sexual Abuse Keeps Girls Out of School
Sexual harassment of school-going girls is one factor that may prevent this Pacific island nation from achieving the Millennium Development Goal MDG of eliminating gender disparity in education by 2015. [
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Children Under Siege - INTER PRESS SERVICE (27.04.2012 18:27h): India Serves Up Costly Cocktail of Vaccines
Ignoring widespread concern over the safety, efficacy and cost of pentavalent vaccines, India's central health ministry has, this month, approved inclusion of the prophylactic cocktail in the universal immunisation programme in seven of its provinces. [
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Children Under Siege - INTER PRESS SERVICE (26.04.2012 14:47h): Taylor's War Crimes Conviction Sends Powerful Message
The United Nations is rejoicing over the conviction of a former head of state for committing crimes against humanity, specifically involving the recruitment of child soldiers. [
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Children Under Siege - INTER PRESS SERVICE (25.04.2012 13:52h): U.N. Focuses on Largest Generation in History
The United Nations, which has remained focused on the world's political and military hotspots, has turned its attention to the bigger socioeconomic issues facing adolescents and youth, including poverty, sexual abuse, female genital mutilation and lack of reproductive health care. [
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Children Under Siege - INTER PRESS SERVICE (21.04.2012 07:16h): Taking Refuge in Hell Camp
"We have been spending sleepless nights without electricity and clean water. This place is not worth living in but we have no option and will remain here as long as the military operation continues in our area," said Gul Rahim, a former resident of Bara tehsil in Khyber Agency, currently languishing in the Jallozai refugee camp in the Nowshera district of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. [
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Children Under Siege - INTER PRESS SERVICE (20.04.2012 14:30h): Courts Looking into Theft of Babies in Spain
An 80-year-old nun is the first person facing trial in Spain on charges of forming part of a secret network that allegedly stole hundreds of babies and sold them to couples without children. [
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Children Under Siege - INTER PRESS SERVICE (20.04.2012 14:30h): Millennium Goals Mock Nepal's Slave Girls
Five years after Nepal abolished Kamalari, a system of girl slavery, thousands of young women are still awaiting promised rehabilitation and support from the new democratic republic. [
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Children Under Siege - INTER PRESS SERVICE (15.04.2012 05:10h): Returning Sudanese Child Soldiers Their Childhood
As the process of reintegrating South Sudan's child soldiers into their old lives begins soon, the Sudanese People's Liberation Army renewal of its lapsed commitment to release all child soldiers from its ranks in March could mean that within two years children will no longer constitute part of the country's militia groups. [
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Children Under Siege - INTER PRESS SERVICE (13.04.2012 05:25h): Those Laboratory Mice Were Children
At Fallujah hospital they cannot offer any statistics on children born with birth defects – there are just too many. Parents don't want to talk. "Families bury their newborn babies after they die without telling anyone," says hospital spokesman Nadim al-Hadidi. "It's all too shameful for them." [
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Children Under Siege - INTER PRESS SERVICE (13.04.2012 05:25h): Fistula - Another Blight on the Child Bride
It was personal experience that turned Gul Bano and her cleric husband, Ahmed Khan, into ambassadors against early marriage and its worst corollary – obstetric fistula which allows excretory matter to flow out through the birth canal. [
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Children Under Siege - INTER PRESS SERVICE (07.04.2012 21:26h): World's Dictators More Scared of Tweets Than Opposing Armies
In his keynote address to the Global Colloquium of University Presidents at New York's Columbia University last week, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon spoke of the growing power exercised by the world's younger generation in an age of high- speed technology and the information superhighway. [
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Children Under Siege - INTER PRESS SERVICE (07.04.2012 21:26h): Guatemala – Regional Leader in Teen Pregnancies
Teenage pregnancies are on the rise in Guatemala, along with the drop-out rate in schools, family breakdown and many other related social ills. [
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Children Under Siege - INTER PRESS SERVICE (01.04.2012 15:57h): Women Pay for Kashmir's Water Woes
Naseema Akhtar, 38, worries that her daily treks to collect clean water from the mountain springs around her village of Bonpora, in Kashmir's Kupwara district, are getting longer. She is already doing more than seven km every day. [
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Children Under Siege - INTER PRESS SERVICE (30.03.2012 15:31h): Memories of Osh Violence Continue to Haunt Kyrgyz Children
The physical damage done to Osh, the city in southern Kyrgyzstan that was engulfed in interethnic violence almost two years ago, is steadily being repaired. The psychological scars, on the other hand, may take generations to heal. [
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Children Under Siege - INTER PRESS SERVICE (28.03.2012 10:46h): Argentine Baby Theft Trial Nears End
The trial for the theft of babies of political prisoners during Argentina's 1976-1983 dictatorship is nearing its end after more than three decades of work by the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, who have so far tracked down 105 of an estimated 500 missing children. [
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Children Under Siege - INTER PRESS SERVICE (26.03.2012 14:12h): Freeing Childhood From Prisons
Hamza has memories no 17-year-old should. "I was desperate. I didn't talk to anyone. I didn't want to go outside the house. I was very nervous. I'd be irritated with the simplest matters." [
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