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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] 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 www.unicef.org/infobycountry/algeria.html [accessed 28 March 2011] Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61685.htm [accessed 18 January 2011] 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 sim.law.uu.nl/SIM/CaseLaw/uncom.nsf/0/523d3e252376630ec1257092002f7426?OpenDocument [accessed 18 January 2011] [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. Nazim Fethi,
Magharebia, www.magharebia.com/cocoon/awi/xhtml1/en_GB/features/awi/features/2007/06/05/feature-02 [accessed 28 March 2011] 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. Information About Street Children - 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] On the phenomenon
of street children in All
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