In a historic judgment on Tuesday, the High Court said that from now mothers too will be recognised as the legal guardians of children in different official documents.The High Court bench of Justice Naima Haider and Justice Razik-Al-Jalil pronounced the judgment. After hearing on January 16, the court fixed January
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Teach children about true Islam: PM urges Islamic scholars
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday called upon the country's Islamic scholars to teach the people, especially the children, true humanitarian values to keep them away from terrorism, militancy and drug addiction. "These vices are destroying families and the society as well," she said while virtually inaugurating 50 more model
2.1m children, youths aged between 5-24 died in 2021: UN
An estimated 5 million children died before their fifth birthday and another 2.1 million children and youth aged between 5-24 years lost their lives in 2021, according to the latest estimates released by the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME). In a separate report also released
Dhaka Regency holds Bijoy Kid’s Art Competition
Dhaka Regency Hotel and Resort organized a children’s art competition on December 18, 2022 in its efforts to extend the celebration of the Victory Day of Bangladesh.The main purpose of this event is to instill patriotism in children and encourage them to develop their latent talents! a press release said
Why Pakistan is upset with the Taliban?
Maryam Marof Arwin, founder of Afghanistan Women and Children Strengthen Welfare Organisation in a Twitter post lament: Afghanistan has been made a cage for Afghan women and girls. This tweet tells a million words, which depicts the state of Afghanistan after a 16-month rule by the barbarian Taliban, who has pushed
UK pledges £38.5m to educate 360,000 marginalised children
The UK government has pledged to disburse 38.5 million pounds to provide education to 360,000 marginalised children, including over 210,000 girls through 1300 learning centres across Bangladesh in eight years. The fund is being channeled by the British High Commission in Dhaka while the endeavor has been implemented by UNICEF under
Bangladesh rolls out Covid vaccination programme for kids
Bangladesh on Thursday rolled out a full-fledged Covid-19 vaccination programme for children aged between 5 and 11 years in city corporation areas across the country. This vaccination programme will continue for the next 14 days, from 9am to 3pm daily. The government has set a target to vaccinate 2.20 crore children aged
PM for integrated education facilities for special children
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday called for ensuring integrated environment of education to help flourish merit and creativity of the special children with autism and neuro-development disabilities. "Environment of integrated education is very much important to flourish merit and creativity of the special children," she said. The premier said this while
Children aged 5-12 to be vaccinated soon: Health Minister
Children aged between five and 12 will be vaccinated against Covid-19 soon, said Health Minister Zahid Maleque on Tuesday. Birth certificate is required to get registered for Covid vaccine, he said. He was speaking at the inaugural and certificate distribution ceremony of the "Certificate Course on Neurodevelopment Disorder" organised by the Institute
Urgent global call to save 222 million dreams for children
It is not enough that they were robbed of their childhoods and their shattered young lives defined by bombs, bloodshed and death. Now, crisis-impacted school-aged children are falling off the academic bridge that could lead them out of the carnage. Not only has the number of crisis-impacted school-aged children requiring education