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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Concluding Observations of the Committee on
the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child,
29 September 2006 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/congo2006.html [accessed 30 January 2011] [68] The Committee notes with appreciation that
the State party has adopted legislation whereby primary education is
compulsory and free of charge. The Committee is however concerned at the
insufficiency of budget allocations for pre-primary, primary, and secondary
schools, and the poor quality of education. The Committee is also concerned
at the common practice of parents’ associations having to support the
functioning of the educational system by contributing to the salaries of
teachers, as well as to the operating and investment expenditure of schools,
such as building and furnishing of classrooms facilities. Furthermore, the
Committee is concerned at the large number of repetition and drop-outs,
overcrowded schools, the low attendance in secondary school, the insufficient
number of trained teachers and available school facilities. The Committee is
further concerned at the low number of children graduating from primary
school and the lack of vocational training for children, in particular those
who drop out of school. Finally, the Committee is concerned at the limited
access of indigenous children to education. ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2006 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor [PDF] www.dol.gov/ilab/programs/ocft/PDF/2006OCFTreport.pdf [accessed 2 November 2010] INCIDENCE AND NATURE
OF CHILD LABOR
- Children work with their families on farms or in informal business
activities.1122 In Brazzaville and other urban centers, there are significant
numbers of street children, primarily from the neighboring Human Rights
Reports » 2006 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2006/78729.htm [accessed 30 January 2011] CHILDREN - There were isolated cases of child
prostitution among street children. The prevalence of the problem remained
unclear. According to reports from international and local NGOs and other
observers, these cases were not linked to trafficking but were efforts by
some street children to survive. International organizations assisted with
programs to feed and shelter street children. During the year the number of street
children remained approximately the same. In 2004 the United Nations
Children's Fund estimated that most of the street children in Brazzaville
were from the DRC, as were some of those in Pointe Noire. Street children
were not known to suffer from targeted abuse by government authorities or
vigilante groups, but they were vulnerable to sexual exploitation and often
fell prey to criminal elements such as drug smugglers. Many street children
begged or sold cheap or stolen goods to support themselves. Concluding Observations of the Committee on
the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child,
29 September 2006 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/congo2006.html [accessed 30 January 2011] [68] The Committee notes with appreciation that
the State party has adopted legislation whereby primary education is
compulsory and free of charge. The Committee is however concerned at the
insufficiency of budget allocations for pre-primary, primary, and secondary
schools, and the poor quality of education. The Committee is also concerned
at the common practice of parents’ associations having to support the
functioning of the educational system by contributing to the salaries of
teachers, as well as to the operating and investment expenditure of schools,
such as building and furnishing of classrooms facilities. Furthermore, the
Committee is concerned at the large number of repetition and drop-outs,
overcrowded schools, the low attendance in secondary school, the insufficient
number of trained teachers and available school facilities. The Committee is
further concerned at the low number of children graduating from primary
school and the lack of vocational training for children, in particular those
who drop out of school. Finally, the Committee is concerned at the limited
access of indigenous children to education. Concluding Observations of the Committee on
Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights International
Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, 12/05/2000 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/esc/congo2000.html [accessed
19 September 2011] 21. The Committee
expresses its grave concern regarding the decline of the standard of health
in the Republic of the UN
Integrated Regional Information Networks IRIN, Pointe-Noire, 24 July 2008 www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=79423 [accessed
4 May 2011] The children are
part of a growing number living on According to the UN
Children's Fund (UNICEF), Congo has continued to feel the effects of a
decade-long brutal civil war that ended in 2003, displaced millions of people
and ravaged the economy. The war left
in its wake thousands of children without birth certificates, young girls
with babies from unknown fathers, and child soldiers needing demobilisation and reintegration into civil society. The Protection Project - Republic of the The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/congor.doc [accessed 2009] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - Evidence
suggests that hundreds of children from the Republic of the All
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