[26 July 2010] - With the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico dominating headlines for the past three months, it is difficult not to think of the impact it will have on children. As the risk of exposure to harmful chemicals continues to rise and...
Summary: Resource pack for teachers on children, poverty and the UN Millennium Development Goals.This teaching pack explores what it means to be poor for children in four countries and at international efforts to eradicate poverty. Through...
The vast majority of children living with HIV around the world lack access to HIV testing and treatment. We can do something about that. The Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance (EAA), in collaboration with partners around the world, are embarking on a year...
Summary: Children not included in "inclusive" budget: Where is the "Aam Bachcha" in the budget, Mr Finance Minister?Budget for children in the Union 2010 - 2011.[DELHI, 2 March 2010] - Indian Finance Minister’s Pranab Mukherjee’s “...
Discrimination against Dalits permeates numerous aspects of daily life in India. It affects access to education and medical facilities and imposes restrictions on housing and what kind of work Dalits can carry out. Moreover, the practice is...
The ongoing conflict between Maoists and government forces is disrupting the education of India's most marginalised children, a rights group says.In a new report Human Rights Watch has urged the rebels to stop attacking state-run schools.It has also...
Despite vigorous and unambiguous efforts to eliminate corporal punishment, the practice persists in schools around the world. Violence is a part of the lives of those children who experience and witness it and their physical safety is compromised in...
Summary: This report was compiled following an international colloquium on children and governance.HAQ timed this international colloquium on children and governance to coincide with the 20th year of reporting to UNCRC and 10 years of its own...
What is a caste?The caste system describes a social hierarchy whereby restrictions or privileges may be afforded to different classes of people according to their heredity (or genes). As such, the assignment of rights is determined by birth. While...
Summary: In 1989, the UN adopted the Child Rights Convention. The bottom line of the Convention is that children all over the world should avail of the same rights. This, many scholars in the western countries have argued, again amounts to the...
