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and accompanying text have been culled from the web to illuminate the
situation in 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
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as this one. Draw comparisons between
activity in adjacent countries and/or regions. Meanwhile, check out some of the Term-Paper resources
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FEATURED ARTICLES *** Child beggars
thrive on Muslim holy season in Agence France-Presse AFP, afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hFh6zrO4h7AAb3jdLXcaQJTHbBWg [accessed 3 April
2011] www.middle-east-online.com/English/?id=22647 [accessed 21
November 2016] According to a study by the Imam Mohammad bin Saud Islamic University in Riyadh published in the Saudi daily Okaz, more than 80,000 "street children" can be found at any one time in the six oil-rich Gulf Arab monarchies -- Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Death in custody, arbitrary
arrests and unfair trials of children www.amnesty.org/es/library/asset/MDE11/018/1996/es/30d99e8b-eaf8-11dd-aad1-ed57e7e5470b/mde110181996en.html [accessed 3 April
2011] [scroll down] In July 1995, a
16-year-old student, Said Abd al-Rasul al-Iskafi, died in
custody ten days after his arrest in circumstances strongly suggesting that torture
was a contributory factor in his death. He had reportedly been detained on
suspicion of having sprayed anti-government graffiti on walls near his home.
Amnesty International obtained photographs of his dead body and submitted
them to an expert forensic pathologist at Although most of
the children detained last year and recently have been freed, many more are
still being arrested at the time of writing this report, taken away in house
raids, peaceful demonstrations or after clashes with security forces. In some
cases, security forces targeted children to hold them hostage until relatives
sought by police turned themselves in. The numbers of detainees changes daily
but it is believed that at any one time, about 60 children may be held
without access to legal assistance or family. ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/bahrain.htm [accessed 25
February 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - The net primary school attendance rate from
1999-2002 was 85 percent for boys and 84.0 percent for girls. CHILD
LABOR LAWS AND ENFORCEMENT - The Labor Law of 1976 sets the minimum age for
employment at 14 years. Under the
Labor Law, juveniles (ages 14 to 16 years) may not be employed in hazardous
conditions, at night, or for more than 6 hours per day. The Ministry of Labor has inspectors to
enforce legislation in the industrial sector, and the U.S. Department of
State reported that such inspections are effective. Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61686.htm [accessed 6 February
2020] CHILDREN
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Children born to Bahraini mothers and non-citizen fathers are not entitled to
citizenship. The Bahrain Women's Society reported in June that there are
approximately 1,800 children of Bahraini women who reside in the country but
do not have citizenship. These children are ineligible for certain
educational and healthcare benefits and other rights of citizens. Public education
for citizen children below the age of 15 is free Islamic Clerics
Authorize Sex With Infants Excerpts from an
interview with Bahraini women's rights activist Ghada
Jamshir, Al-Arabiya TV, December 21, 2005 MEMRI.org,
FrontPageMagazine.com, January 4, 2006 archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=6050 [accessed 20 January
2011] "We have a
problem with family planning. We have no family planning in Bahrain. The
Shiites in Bahrain have marriages for the purpose of mut'ah
[pleasure]. They bring multitudes of children into the world, without
thinking, who grow up in the streets. Education Reform in
Gulf Centre for
Strategic Studies, Welcome to www.bahrainbrief.com.bh/english/nov2001-issue.htm [Last access date
unavailable] COMPULSORY SCHOOLING - The new
legislation on education passed by the Consultative Council will make
schooling compulsory for all children.
Although it is highly unusual for school age children in Committee
Concludes Review Of Children’s Rights UN Press Release
GA/SHC/3748, Fifty-eighth General Assembly, Third Committee, 19th & 20th
Meetings, 21/10/2003 www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2003/gashc3748.doc.htm [accessed 3 April
2011] An analytical study
of the situation of children in All
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