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CAUTION: The following links
and accompanying text have been culled from the web to illuminate the
situation in Barbados. 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 » 2006 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2006/78879.htm [accessed 6 February
2020] CHILDREN
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Education was free, compulsory, and universal until the age of 16. The
government estimated that 98 percent of children between the ages of five and
16 attended school. The highest educational level achieved by most children
was secondary school. The National Health
Insurance Scheme provided children with free medical and dental services for
most medical conditions. Initial report of
Barbados - Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 25 April
1999 www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf/%28Symbol%29/d314358d26be3da380256782004c5866?Opendocument [accessed 5 April 2011] 27. There were no street children in 28. Turning to the
question of why boys were more frequently abandoned than girls, he explained
that one reason was that it was widely believed that adolescent boys were
difficult and troublesome, and so prospective adoptive parents preferred
girls. Some welcome changes in attitude had been achieved by an information
drive and advocacy. Barbados - The Situation of Children in the Worst Forms of Child Labour in a tourism economy: A Rapid Assessment [PDF] Leith L. Dunn Ph.D., International Labour Organisation ILO Subregional Office for the Caribbean, www.ilocarib.org.tt/projects/childlabour/library/rapid_assessment/rabar.pdf [accessed 5 April
2011] www.unicef.org/lac/spbarbados/Implementation/CP/National/RABarbados_ILO_2002.pdf [accessed 21
November 2016] [page 24] e) The Compulsory Education Act, which was
previously mentioned. While indicating that ‘there is no evidence of street
children or child prostitution’, the report points to an obvious need
for: a) Research and
accurate reporting on the situation of children at risk especially in terms
of child abuse and drug use among juveniles; b) Stricter
enforcement of legal provisions to protect children; c) Special
arrangement and facilities for juvenile offenders; d) Education and
training in counselling; and e) An increased
level of community awareness to prevent further deterioration of the
situation. All
material used herein reproduced under the fair use exception of 17 USC § 107
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