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CAUTION: The following links
and accompanying text have been culled from the web to illuminate the
situation in the Republic of the Congo (ROC). 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
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the Resources
for Teachers attached to this website. ***
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 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2006/78729.htm [accessed 7 February
2020] 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 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/79423/congo-more-children-on-the-streets [accessed 10 March
2015] 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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