Full Coverage: Youth

06/29/2007 India joins Washington Accord, a 10-member apex global organisation that determines standards of engineering education. This means that Indian undergraduate engineering degree will ultimately be given "equivalency" in all member countries.

06/28/2007 "We both have the same blood running through our veins," says a young Mexican-American about her undocumented friend. So why can one get a job while the other cannot?

06/28/2007 Growing up, I recall my mother hardly being at home. She left for work at ten in the morning and returned home at eleven at night. It wasn't that my mother was neglecting me; she was doing what was needed in order to survive.

06/28/2007 Teens in the Central Valley of California have seen hundreds of immigrants detained in ICE raids. These are some of their thoughts.

06/27/2007 Amnesty International ha chiesto alle autorità giudiziarie e politiche dell’Iran di istituire una moratoria immediata per impedire ulteriori esecuzioni di minorenni all’epoca del reato e di modificare le leggi affinché nessun minorenne autore di un reato possa essere condannato a morte. Nel rapporto diffuso oggi, l’organizzazione per i diritti umani ha denunciato che sono almeno 71 i minorenni all’epoca del reato in attesa di esecuzione in Iran, il paese che dal 1990 ha raggiunto il maggior numero di esecuzioni di minorenni. “L’Iran è rimasto praticamente l’unico paese in cui persone di età inferiore a 18 anni all’epoca del reato per cui sono stati giudicati colpevoli vengono messe a morte” – ha dichiarato Malcolm Smart di Amnesty. “È giunto veramente il momento che le autorità iraniane pongano fine, una volta per tutte, a questa pratica vergognosa”.

06/27/2007 An ambitious and innovative reality TV show - Haath se Haath Milaa (Let’s Join Hands) – by BBC World Service Trust, that played a vital role in India’s largest mass media campaign on HIV and AIDS, has won a World Award at the Asia Media Summit 2007.

06/26/2007 To commemorate the International Day against Drug Abuse, PVR Nest in India, in association with United Nations (Office of Drug and Crime) and the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment is organising a play on prevention of drug abuse titled 'Mission Possible'. The play will be presented by Barry John's troupe "Imago" on 26 th June, 2007 at PVR Priya, New Delhi, India at 5:30 pm.

06/05/2007