Junk food lure for children
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia... Australian Association of National Advertisers executive director Collin Segelov said advertising to children was "not a public issue".

Youth group holds mock funerals to protest Ottawa's climate change ...
Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,CanadaTORONTO (CP) - Young people in 14 cities across Canada are holding funerals Wednesday - funerals for their future. The newly formed Canadian Youth Climate ...

TV with sub-titles 'will help children to read'
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom... Parents who say they are too busy to read to their children should let them watch television – but only with the sub-titles on, a literacy expert says today.

Shanghai's youth care for their parents
People's Daily Online - Beijing,China... over the age of 18, all of whom were the only children in their ... Researchers found the only-child generation was both very heavy dependent on its parents ...

Child rights groups want special magistrates
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa... Children of divorced parents were often caught up in litigation, where their rights ... Roome said magistrates who could create a child-friendly system within the ...

Children signing away rights - unions
Melbourne Herald Sun - Australia...Children as young as 14 were signing away basic work conditions, leaving them vulnerable to unscrupulous employers, unions said today.

Book about life on prairie farm wins Canadian children's ...
Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,CanadaTORONTO (CP) - Poet and novelist Pamela Porter of Sidney, B.C., won the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award for her book "The Crazy Man," about life on a prairie wheat farm.

'Vast imbalance' in child poverty
BBC News - UK... The United Nations children's agency Unicef has appealed to Eastern European and Central Asian governments to pay more attention to child poverty. Across South-East Europe and the former Soviet Union it found millions of children were living in extreme poverty despite a recent economic upturn.

Czech Interior Ministry decides to ban communist youth ...
International Herald Tribune - France... The Czech Interior Ministry decided to ban an organization of the country's young communists, saying its program violates the constitution, an official said Wednesday. The Union of Communist Youth's program violates the Czech constitution because it includes efforts to completely replace private property with state ownership, ministry spokeswoman Majka Masarikova said.

Mercury News: Livermore hosts Teen Film Festival
--"The library's first Teen Film Festival, "An Independent View," is slated for Wednesday night and will showcase filmmakers in the 12-to-18 age range.
"There's lots of really good ones," said librarian Mary Sue Nocar, who came up with the festival idea. The festival will include all 11 submitted films, each with a length of five minutes or less."

Information Week: Teen Social Networking Spawns Online Ecosystem
--"It is not a surprise that teens are actively engaged in social networking sites like MySpace and YouTube," Ken Cassar, chief analyst for Nielsen/NetRatings, said in a statement released this week. "What is surprising, however, is the extent to which a wide array of supporting Web sites has developed in conjunction with these bigger, more well-known Web destinations. MySpace and YouTube have spawned a vibrant online ecosystem."

Computer World: IT Managers Told to Think Young
--"Teenagers and young adults are racing ahead of their elders in adopting new technologies and processes for collaborating, such as wikis and video sharing. And Gartner analysts said repeatedly that companies poised for future growth need to be clued in to the so-called consumerization of IT — a point driven home by Google Inc.’s agreement to acquire online video-sharing company YouTube Inc. for stock valued at $1.65 billion."

The Age: Libya joins children's laptop plan
--"The Libyan Government has reached an agreement with One Laptop Per Child, a non-profit US group developing an inexpensive, educational laptop computer, with the goal of supplying machines to all 1.2 million Libyan schoolchildren by June 2008."

Guardian: Save the Children ad banned
--"A Save the Children Fund marketing campaign has been banned by the advertising watchdog after complaints that it distressed children by implying that those with brown eyes might die young."

ABC News: Kenyans to stay youthful until 50
--"Youth Affairs Minister Muhammad Kuti has been quoted in local media as saying the Government plans to change the law so more people can access a youth fund established this year."

China View: Over 30 mln Chinese rural migrant youth receive training
--"Over 30 million young rural migrants working in China's urban districts have received training provided by Communist youth leagues across the country...The training programs launched in 2001 cover various fields such as state policies and laws, culture, vocational skills, production safety and refined behavior."

Reuters: Violence against children widely accepted: study
--"Violence against children is widely accepted as normal around the world, and at least 106 countries still allow physical punishment in schools, a U.N. report on the issue showed on Thursday."

The Australian: Sexualisation of children in ads a 'non-issue'
--"The sexualisation of children in advertising is a "non-issue for Australian parents," according to the Advertising Standards Bureau, which has vowed to strenuously resist any attempt to legislate the issue."