Media Watch - Putting child at risk

Noida — The mirror of Indian society
If you are poor, nameless and living in one of the shantytowns that border glittering new towns like Noida then the police will not bother to even register a case because they know your child counts for nothing.

PROGRAMMES AND POLICY MEASURES FOR CHILD WELFARE
Children constitute principle assets of any country. Children’s development is very important for the overall development of society and the best way to develop national human resources is to take care of children.

Sunil Jain: In school, but not really learning
At the all-India level, it found the proportion of children in the first and second standard who could read the alphabet in their native languages is up by 4.2 percentage points, from 70.3 last year to 74.5 per cent this year.

Putting children at risk
Physically and emotionally immature in comparison to adults, and without representation in a democracy, children certainly deserve more than the average protection from our welfare state.

Oprah's academy: Why educating girls pays off more
the benefits of girls' education, in terms of improving health, women's empowerment, and family well-being, probably does make girls' education the highest-returning social investment in the world.

Toys 'could help 200m children'
Programmes using basic toys could boost educational achievement of 200 million developing world children not reaching their potential, a report says.

Web plea rescues Canadian child
Canadian police have taken a child from an allegedly sexually abusive situation after the child's anonymous e-mail plea for help was picked up in Australia.