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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Real Lives -
Azerbaijan Diary: A Sting In The Tale Lynn Geldof, United
Nations Children's Fund UNICEF www.unicef.org/ceecis/reallives_1495.html [accessed 2 April
2011] “We have regular
customers who park their cars and we wash them. When they leave work, they
pay us." The police don’t hassle them on the proviso that they
take 60% of the boys’ earnings. So net profit usually ends up as
approximately a dollar per boy per day. The boys drop in and out of
school. Ridicule appears to be a feature of the alienation process.
"They jeer at me for not having a change of clothes. Even the principal
told me not to come to school if I didn’t wear the right clothes" ***
ARCHIVES *** Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61637.htm [accessed 4 February
2020] CHILDREN
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Public education was compulsory, free, and universal until the age of 17. The
Ministry of Education reported 100 percent elementary school attendance, 97
percent middle school attendance, and 88 percent high school attendance
during the year; the UN Children's Fund reported the elementary school figure
was approximately 88 percent. The highest level of education achieved by the
majority of children was high school. In impoverished rural areas, large
families sometimes placed a higher priority on the education of male children
and kept girls to work in the home. Some poor families forced their children
to beg rather than attend school. A large number of
refugee and IDP children lived in substandard conditions in camps and public
buildings. In some cases, these children were unable to attend school. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 6 June 1997 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/azerbaijan1997.html [accessed 25
February 2011] [21] The Committee
is deeply concerned about the consequences of armed conflict on families, in
particular the emergence of a population of unaccompanied children, orphans
and abandoned children. [23] While
welcoming the fact that the State party has recently released a study on
children working and/or living on the street, the recent increase in the
number of such children is a matter of concern. The Committee also expresses
its serious concern at the increase in the number of child prostitutes, and
that the State party does not have a clear strategy to combat the abuse and
sexual exploitation of children. S. Ilhamgizi, Trend News Agency news.trendaz.com/index.shtml?show=news&newsid=1037598&lang=EN [accessed 16 January
2017] According to her,
Azerbaijan has no official statistical data on its street-children, because
most of these children return to their families after some time. Educational
institutes are also responsible for the problem. Most street-children go to
secondary school, where control over attendance is poor, she said. Street
Children Beg For Livelihood In Konul Khalilova,
www.eurasianet.org/departments/rights/articles/eav050802.shtml [accessed 2 April
2011] Fagan lives in the Bileceri district with his mother and brothers. He didn’t
want to say how much he earns in a day, but whispers that he has to pay out
half of this money as ’protection’ for working on the street. His story is
more common than ever. In Soviet times, to call someone a "street
child" amounted to an insulting exaggeration. Since the Helping
Street Children Chloe Arnold,
Deutsche Welle DW-WORLD.DE, 01.09.2007 www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,1103828,00.html [accessed 2 April
2011] Some of them have
mothers, but no fathers; some have fathers, but no mothers. They’re in difficult financial situations,
and so, they are forced onto the streets to earn money for their
families. But these boys face a major
problem when they become 18. They have
nothing to do, they can’t find work and so they can’t eat. They need some sort of profession. Consortium for
Street Children Consortium for
Street Children, 2004 At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 21
September 2011] Street children in Special Rapporteur
On The www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/children/rapporteur/Russia
Gov Translation.doc [accessed 2 April
2011] 3.
INFORMATION ON INITIATIVES (a) INSTITUTIONAL AND POLICY MEASURES - It was decided
to create a children’s police force (taking account of international
experience) and to recruit persons trained as teachers, particularly women
specialists, as members of the police force, to establish crisis centers
(psychosocial rehabilitation centers), to set up anonymous telephone lines
(hotlines) and to conduct special training for this purpose. BBC News, 23
February, 2004 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3513439.stm [accessed 20 January
2011] STREET
CHILDREN
- During the Soviet system, there was a specific government plan and specific
policy which was directed towards the welfare of each individual but
unfortunately, after gaining independence, this old system just collapsed and
there is no alternative, which could - which should - replace it. The Protection
Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/azerbaijan.doc [accessed 2009] FACTORS THAT
CONTRIBUTE TO THE TRAFFICKING INFRASTRUCTURE - Poor social and economic
conditions for women and children make them vulnerable to trafficking.
Women’s lower social status and lack of decently paid work opportunities
compel them to seek employment outside of Azerbaijan. Furthermore, with the collapse of the
Soviet Union, the social welfare system ceased to function effectively in
Azerbaijan, thereby forcing many children onto the streets, where they are
vulnerable to exploitation. - htsccp All
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