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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Children’s Day
Nothing to Celebrate in Burma Min Lwin, The www2.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=10369 [accessed 10 October
2012] Poverty, the
economic crisis and instability in ***
ARCHIVES *** Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61603.htm [accessed 7 February
2020] CHILDREN
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Children under the age of 18 constituted approximately 40 percent of the
population. Children were at high risk as destitute parents took them out of
school to beg or to work in
factories and teashops. Some were placed in orphanages. With few or no
skills, increasing numbers of children worked in the informal economy or in
the street, where they were exposed to drugs, petty crime, risk of arrest,
sexual abuse and exploitation, and HIV/AIDS. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 24-01-1997 sim.law.uu.nl/SIM/CaseLaw/uncom.nsf/0/0f90115e70a4b29ec125663c00343b92?OpenDocument [accessed 25 January
2011] [10] The Committee,
while recognizing the efforts undertaken by the State party in the collection
of data, is concerned that the system of data collection does not adequately
disaggregate information so as to reflect the situation of all children,
particularly those belonging to the most disadvantaged groups, including
children belonging to minority groups, children living in remote areas,
disabled children, children living and/or working in the street, children
placed in institutions, including institutions of a penal nature, ill-treated
and abused children or children from economically disadvantaged groups. Such
disaggregated data would contribute to the design of policies and programs
for the effective and full implementation of the provisions of the Convention Suffer the children Danielle Bernstein,
Asia Times Online, www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/LK06Ae02.html [accessed 25 January
2011] Lin Htet Aung is 12 years
old, scrappy but small for his age. He came to Yangon from Sagaing division north of "I sleep right here in the shop," Lin Htet Aung says, pointing to a small table in a filthy
corner of the smoky shop. The long hours aren't the worst part of his job,
which he's held for nearly two years. "I don't like working here because they beat me
sometimes, but I'm not a bad kid," he said. I'll be going back home in a
few months, so I'm very happy. I probably won't go back to school when I go
home, but I don't mind." Economic Crisis
Fueling Child Labor, Trafficking Saw Yan Naing, The www2.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=9627 [accessed 28 August
2012] The economic crisis
and instability in Meanwhile, the
results of child trafficking has had a huge impact on the education of many
Burmese migrant children, forcing the children into hard labor in factories,
sweat shops and even into the sex trade, according to Burmese migrant
education groups. Many victims under
the age of 18 have become street beggars and sex workers instead of studying
at school, said Paw Ray, the chairperson of the BMWEC, which operates nearly
50 schools for children of Burmese migrant workers in Mae Sot. Agence France-Presse AFP, afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5i5sgDe5nc_q0BvgvxntVLr5YCKNA [accessed 25 January
2011] In a statement
released Friday, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that both the military
government and rebel groups continued to violate children's rights by
recruiting underage soldiers. Citing a
recent UN report, he said that the government was picking up street children or those without
national identity cards and offering them the choice of arrest or joining the
army. Myanmar's military
government officially denies using child soldiers and has passed a law to
outlaw the practice. But human rights
groups say child soldiers in Myanmar remain alarmingly common, with boys as
young as 12 recruited to fight the ethnic rebel armies in the country's
border regions. –
htsc Information about Street Children - Myanmar {DOC] This report is taken
from “A Civil Society Forum for East and South East Asia on Promoting and Protecting
the Rights of Street Children”, 12-14 March 2003, At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 21
September 2011] 75% initial
enrolment in primary school of which 25% drop out in 1st and 2nd year. Less than 50% of those remaining will
complete primary school and fewer still will graduate to secondary school. Definitions and statistics: World Vision Children Find Refuge From Harsh Life On The
Streets www.wvi.org/wvi/archives/asia/myanmar.htm [Last access date
unavailable] Their deaths left
eight children in an extremely precarious situation. With no income and no social
welfare system to fall back on, the children had to fend for themselves. As
their situation worsened, both boys abandoned school. They could no longer
pay the school fees, or cover the cost of school uniforms, books and lunches.
Their other siblings also needed them to earn money. Child
Soldiers In Marianne Bray, Cable
News Network CNN, archives.cnn.com/2001/fyi/news/06/13/child.soldiers/ [accessed 12 April
2011] edition.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/southeast/06/12/myanmar.childsoldiers/ [accessed 24
November 2016] HUMAN SHIELDS - While some children
are recruited voluntarily for Myanmar's armed forces, others, especially
orphans and street children are vulnerable to what is called "forced
recruitment. Under this scheme, local
authorities in Chapter
3 - Nature and Extent of the Problem The Southeast Asian
Ministers of Education Organization SEAMEO www.seameo.org/vl/combat/3chap1.htm [accessed 12 April
2011] 3.1 CHILD LABOR
EXPLOITATION IN MEKONG SUBREGION - In All
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