HC asks govt on street children The High Court yesterday directed the government to submit in three months a report on the steps taken to issue birth certificates to all street children. Secretaries at the ministries of women and children and home affairs, and office of the registrar general of birth and death registration have ... Read more
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Increase allocation for street children: Inu
Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu has said necessary steps would be taken to make additional budgetary allocation for the disadvantaged street children for their mainstreaming. “Street children are no longer burden of our society.I will request the Finance Minister to make additional budgetary allocation for the disadvantaged street children,” Inu told the concluding
Budgetary allocation for street women, children stressed
Rights activists on Monday urged the government to ensure the rights of street women and children and demanded an allocation for them in the upcoming budget. The demands came up at a press conference jointly organised by Grambangla Unnayan Committee and Association of Waste Resource Workers in Bangladesh at Dhaka
Call for bringing street kids under mainstream development
Speakers at a discussion stressed the need for bringing the underprivileged street children under mainstream development by providing them with basic facilities especially education, health and shelter. Privileged groups of the society should do something for development of the street children, they said, adding if every rich family comes forward with supports, no children
Irish players visit PLAN
Seven members of the Ireland cricket team, including the coach Phil Simmons, captain William Porterfield and the vice-captain Trent Johnson visited a Drop in Centre (DIC), supported by PLAN Bangladesh, for the street children in Rampura yesterday. The players were visibly moved and confessed to being touched by the children’s