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News ScanMaharashtra notifies dedicated children's courts Three years after it was mandated, Maharashtra notifies special courts to try cases in which children are the victims, thus speeding up trials and offering children better protection More... Public meeting demands better quality of life for childrenActivists and workers from 11 states gathered at a public meeting in Delhi to demand that the government deliver on its promises for better nutrition, education and quality of life for children under six More... Golden Temple saplings to save the girl-childAn estimated 30,000 women devotees who visit the Golden Temple every day will be given a sapling of one of the varieties of trees mentioned in the Guru Granth Sahib. They will be asked to plant the sapling as a reminder to save the girl-child and the environment. Punjab has one of the lowest sex ratios in India More... SC steps in to stop sex-determination ads on InternetThe activist who filed the petition accuses Google, Microsoft and Yahoo of making a premeditated attempt to aim at Indian users with advertisements that claim to help in the selection of a child's sex More... India has highest number of under-5 deaths: Unicef'The State of Asia-Pacific's Children 2008' examines the latest trends in child and maternal health in the Asia-Pacific region and assesses whether countries will be able to meet the Millennium Development Goals that their governments pledged to meet in 2000 More... Food warning for Indian childrenFifty million Indians under the age of 5 are affected by malnutrition. Rising food prices, says Unicef, mean that 1.5-1.8 million more children in India alone could end up malnourished More... Poor Indian children, especially girls, get no healthcare: reportThe poorest countries are not providing children adequate basic healthcare, says the latest report from Save the Children More... Child rights placed on Karnataka’s political agendaWith the Karnataka State Assembly elections around the corner, 500 social service organisations and individuals involved with child rights issues have been collaborating with hundreds of children to get issues related to children included in election manifestos More... PM denounces abortion of femalesAddressing a national meet ‘Save the Girl Child’, in New Delhi, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said no nation, society or community could hold its head high and claim to be part of the civilised world if it condoned the practice of discriminating against one half of humanity More... |
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