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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Algeria aims to
defend children's rights Nazim Fethi,
Magharebia, www.magharebia.com/cocoon/awi/xhtml1/en_GB/features/awi/features/2007/06/05/feature-02 [accessed 28 March
2011] www.crin.org/en/library/publications/algeria-efforts-protect-child-rights [accessed 21
November 2016] In an attempt to
tackle juvenile delinquency, the government has decided that the best
solution is to reintroduce offending children into schools. It has thus
planned to establish a child protection research and monitoring centre, to be overseen by the Ministry of Employment and
Solidarity. Employment Ministry General Secretary Abdellah
Bouchenak announced that "this centre will gather data from all 48 wilayas
on matters such as the situation of street children, and will also clarify
the sociological, psychological and medical aspects of the care these
children need." This will make it possible to "improve and step up
efforts to provide special care for this group in society." In a bid to
reintegrate children into the schooling system, the government has introduced
vocational training for pupils who have dropped out. Only 200,000 seats were
made available in the programme, well below the
approximately 450,000 children who abandoned their studies last year.
Additionally, attendance is not mandatory for vocational training, which
makes it more difficult to recruit students in large numbers. ***
ARCHIVES *** UNICEF
- The Big Picture 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61685.htm [accessed 28 March
2011] Human
Rights Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61685.htm [accessed 4 February
2020] CHILDREN
- The
government provides free education for children through high school. Free
education is compulsory until the age of 16. The most recent figures released
by the Ministry of National Education show that in 2004, more than 90 percent
of children completed the ninth grade, on average the highest grade level
normally attained by students. Boys and girls generally received the same
education, although rural girls were slightly more likely to leave school
because of familial financial reasons, and sons were often given educational
priority. Economic necessity compelled
many children to resort to informal employment, such as street vending. SECTION
6 WORKER RIGHTS
– [d] No child labor was reported in the industrial sector; however, economic
necessity compelled many children to resort to informal employment. Many
children worked part time or full time in small workshops, on family farms,
and in informal trade. A report from the Ministry of National Solidarity in
2004 stated that more than 25,000 children between the ages of 6 and 14 were
working in the informal economy. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 30 September 2005 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/algeria2005.html [accessed 10 January
2016] [76] The Committee
takes note of the findings of a study conducted in 2001 that children become
street children due to socio-economic problems, such as poor housing, unemployment
and poverty, and family problems, such as domestic violence and abuse, and it
is concerned that these root causes of the phenomenon of street children are
not sufficiently addressed. In addition, the Committee is concerned about
street children's limited access to adequate nutrition, clothing, housing,
social and health services and education and their vulnerability to economic
and sexual exploitation. Information About
Street Children - Algeria [DOC] This report is taken
from “A Civil Society Forum for North Africa and the Middle East on Promoting
and Protecting the Rights of Street Children”, 3-6 March 2004, At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 20
September 2011] A lack of cohesion
between family members was a particularly common reason, and three-quarters
of the children interviewed said this was their main reason for leaving.
Violence appeared to be widespread, with over 60% of them admitting being
victims of violence within their families. EU-Funded
Initiative to Help Algeria’s Children Daily News, February
10 2005 www.turks.us/article.php?story=20050210074127458 [accessed 28 March
2011] www.algeria.com/forums/open-board-forum-libre/7232-eu-funded-initiative-help-algeria%92s-children.html [accessed 28 March
2011] On the phenomenon
of street children in Algeria, Khayati said a
polytechnic agricultural school is to be established in two months to educate
the street children, calling for combating such a phenomenon and
rehabilitating those kids to join the labor market. All
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