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CAUTION: The following links
and accompanying text have been culled from the web to illuminate the
situation in Antigua & Barbuda.
Some of these links may lead to websites that present allegations that
are unsubstantiated or even false. No attempt has been made to validate
their authenticity or to verify their content. HOW TO USE THIS WEBPAGE Students If you are looking
for material to use in a term-paper, you are advised to scan the postings on this
page and others to see which aspect(s) of street life are of particular
interest to you. You might be
interested in exploring how children got there, how they survive, and how
some manage to leave the street.
Perhaps your paper could focus on how some street children abuse the
public and how they are abused by the public … and how they abuse each
other. Would you like to write about
market children? homeless children? Sexual and labor exploitation? begging? violence? addiction? hunger? neglect? etc. There is a lot to the subject of Street
Children. Scan other countries as well
as this one. Draw comparisons between
activity in adjacent countries and/or regions. Meanwhile, check out some of the Term-Paper resources
that are available on-line. Teachers Check out some of
the Resources
for Teachers attached to this website. ***
ARCHIVES *** Human Rights
Reports » 2008 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2008/wha/119144.htm [accessed 17 March
2020] CHILDREN
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While the government repeatedly expressed its commitment to children's
rights, in practice its efforts to protect those rights were limited. Schools
faced many shortages, and parents typically provided desks, chairs, and
uniforms, and often purchased books. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 3 November 2004 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/antigua2004.html [accessed 24
February 2011] 57. The Committee
welcomes the decision by the Board of Education to award scholarships and
bursaries to children and the Board’s Textbook Assistance Scheme, which
provides children, free of cost, with all the textbooks used in school at the
primary and secondary levels. It welcomes the provision of free uniforms as
of September 2004 in both primary and secondary schools, and the plan to
introduce free meals in primary schools. It also notes with appreciation that
education is free at all levels of the public school system until the age of
16. However, it remains concerned about a variety of problems, including:
shortage of schools and overcrowding; material shortages in schools; equality
of access to education; drop-out of boys. The Committee is also concerned
that, owing to the entrance examination system, not all students are
guaranteed entry into the free public secondary schools. 60. The Committee
notes with appreciation the State party’s ratification in September 2002 of
the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182). The Committee
expresses concern, however, about the atmosphere of complacency, which may
reduce efforts to prevent and eliminate child labour Committee On Rights
Of Child Concludes Thirty-Seventh Session Press Release
HR/4796, UN Information Service, www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2004/hr4796.doc.htm [accessed 7 Aug 2013] And with regards to
the report of The Committee was
seriously concerned that no safe houses or places of alternative care existed
for boys who suffered from parental neglect or who needed to be removed from
their family environment, and that they were generally placed in the facility
for boys in conflict with the law. It was further concerned that there
were no officially designated places of safety for children victims of abuse,
where they could stay until their cases were heard by a magistrate and that
in practice, children were usually held at the police station, which raised serious
alarm. The Committee therefore recommended that the State party take
the necessary measures to prevent child abuse and neglect. All
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