Resources for public education and health eaten by global corporations |
The world has enough for everybody’s need but not enough for everybody’s greed, said Mahatma Gandhi. A similar emotion evokes a new study by Education International Research Institute...
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Children and students tortured in Pakistani seminary, Global March demands immediate closure of the system of brutalisation |
Pakistani police rescued 53 students including children as young as seven years, chained from a warren of rooms in a madrassa (seminary) during a raid in Karachi..
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Missing children of India |
A reflection upon increasing societal apathy and systemic failure of the law enforcement agencies
On 08th December 2011: Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA) launched its latest research report “Missing Children of India”.
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Child labour in the Cocoa Farms of Ivory Coast and Ghana |
In 2010, findings of a research commissioned by Tulane University under a grant by the US Government showed that a staggering 1.8 million children aged 5 to 17 years work in cocoa farms of Ivory Coast and Ghana at the cost of their physical, emotional, cognitive and moral well being.
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Aid for Education: Miles to go!? |
The good news first! International aid for basic education has increased from 2008 to 2009 to reach around US$ 5.6 billion reports the Education for All (EFA) Global Monitoring Report’s team in their findings on trends in aid to education from 2002 to 2009. ...
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| “Getting to Zero” Zero new HIV infections, Zero discrimination, Zero AIDS-related deaths – World AIDS Day 2011 |
The Global March Against Child Labour is preparing to commemorate World AIDS Day on December 1, joining millions around the world in support of this year's theme, "Getting to Zero. Zero New HIV Infections. Zero Discrimination and Zero AIDS Related Deaths."...
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