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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 ***
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– www.unicef.org/infobycountry/myanmar.html [accessed 12 April 2011] Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61603.htm [accessed 25 January 2011] 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." 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 Burma drives more and more children in
search of jobs. Some work from 5 a.m. until late at night in tea shops, bars
and factories, often earning just 7,000 kyat ($ US5.72) per month. A resident
in Rangoon told The Irrawaddy recently that the amount of street children in
the former capital is now increasing. “Many children aged between 4 and 13
are begging on the streets. Some young children are carrying babies and
begging. Some street children look for plastic in the rubbish bins and dumps
and some go fishing every day for their daily survival,” she said. According
to reports, sometimes street children who can’t produce ID are recruited into
the Burmese army. 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] HUMAN SHIELDS - While some
children are recruited voluntarily for 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
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