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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Street children in Iran Morteza Aminmansour,
Persian Journal, Oct 25, 2004 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 31 May 2011] Most of them make
it only to big cities (Mashad, ***
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– www.unicef.org/infobycountry/iran.html [accessed 31 May 2011] Human Rights Reports
» 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61688.htm [accessed 13 February 2011] CHILDREN
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There are reportedly significant numbers of children, particularly Afghan but
also Iranian, working as street vendors in Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child,
28 January 2005 sim.law.uu.nl/SIM/CaseLaw/uncom.nsf/0/e7b8824bdd987268c1256fa8004a8753?OpenDocument [accessed 13 February 2011] [59] Although the
Committee notes the high level of literacy in Iran and the measures taken by
the State party to increase school enrolment and lower dropout rates, it
remains concerned that not all children are enrolled in or graduate from
primary school. Working children, children living on the streets and children
without complete personal documents, particularly refugee children with
bi-national parents, have reduced access to schools. It is also concerned
that refugee children are currently only being enrolled in schools if their
parents have registered with the authorities, and that the enrolment of
refugee children is not currently being offered free of charge. It is further
concerned about well-documented information that a large number of Baha'i
students were not admitted to university on the grounds of their religious
affiliation [64] The Committee
continues to be concerned about the large number of children living and/or
working in the streets, particularly in urban centers such as Grim life of outcast children The Sydney Morning Herald, November 17,
2008 www.smh.com.au/news/world/grim-life-of-outcast-children/2008/11/16/1226770257430.html [accessed 31 May 2011] When Mehr's sister, Sania, now 16,
asked why Iranian children wore identical clothes and carried a bag, she was
told that they were on their way to school. "Why can't I join
them?" she asked her mother. "My mum said to me, 'Because we are
Afghani and the Iranian Government doesn't allow Afghanis to learn, to go to
a school.' " The sense of
rejection the Mehr family experienced during their
years as refugees in Iran lingers. For these Afghan children, their only memory
of their homeland was of being caught in conflict. When they arrived in
Tehran they were deemed outcasts and deprived of financial, educational or
social support. Forced to work illegally, some of the children and
their father took to the polluted roads of the city, selling cigarettes and lollies. Many Iranians were resentful of refugees at a
time of high unemployment. Iran has 1 million registered refugees and the
United Nations refugee agency UNHCR estimates there are at least another
million unofficially living there. When Mehr's family arrived, unemployment was running at 12 per
cent, and more than 20 per cent for those aged 15 to 29, who make up 36 per
cent of the population. Even the UNHCR ended its education support to
refugees in 2004, preferring instead to focus its resources on voluntary
repatriation to Afghanistan. Mehr tells how people
on the streets would swear at her and her parents when they heard her
conversing with them in Dari, their Afghan dialect. "The Iranian
Government does not respect us, so the people look at the Government and
follow," she says. Iran street children rights, human rights Morteza Aminmansour,
Oct 30, 2007 www.iranian.ws/cgi-bin/iran_news/exec/view.cgi/34/23028 This article has been archived by World
Street Children News and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 31 May 2011] Most of these
street children who were rounded up from the streets of Lot of these
children make it only to big cities (Mashad, Laws Are Not Enough: An Interview with Mehrangiz Kar on Children's
Rights Sasan Ghahreman,
Payvand News, Gozaar,
October 5, 2007 www.payvand.com/news/07/oct/1042.html [accessed 31 May 2011] In the current
academic year of 2007-2008, about three million children, according to
official sources, and five million children, according to unofficial sources,
have been prevented from attending primary and middle schools across the
country. Instead of finding a solution to this predicament and removing
obstacles, the Iranian officials have threatened parents, mandating that if
they refuse to send their children to primary and middle school, they would
be fined up to 1,200 dollars. These threats have no effect. Low-income segments
of society prefer to generate illegal income by forcing their children to beg
on streets rather than send them to school. A generation of street kids hustling in
Iran Kim Murphy, The At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 31 May 2011] Atefeh is one of the
younger members of At 12, she isn't as
good at plaintive as some of her younger competitors, two boys who are
hawking Koranic inscriptions and balloons just up the street. Sometimes her
face looks more furious than sad. But she still can clear 55 cents a day
selling her packages of pink-and-red strawberry chewing gum to bored and
surly drivers. A decade ago,
street children were rare in Iran, with its long traditions of charity for
the poor, government aid programs and strong family connections. No more. About 55% of the city's
street children are offspring of the estimated 1.5 million refugees who have
flooded into Iran from Afghanistan in waves over the last 20 years, school
officials say, and many of the rest are children of single parents,
mixed-nationality families or Gypsies. Many come from the growing number of
families beset by drug addiction as heroin shipments across the Afghan border
have multiplied since the fall of the Taliban in 2001. Most runaway girls in www.iranfocus.com/en/?option=com_content&task=view&id=2827 [accessed 13 February 2011] “Internal
trafficking of women and girls for sexual exploitation and children for
forced labor also takes place”, it said, adding that such practices are
fuelled by an increasing number of vulnerable groups, such as runaway women,
street children, and drug addicts. Needy
Youngsters Live On City Streets Azam Gorgin/Charles
Recknagel, Radio Free Europe/Radio www.womenfreedomforum.org/trafficking/needyoungsters.htm [accessed 31 May 2011] Record
Number Of Street Children In www.iranfocus.com/en/?option=com_content&task=view&id=2666 [accessed 31 May 2011] Some 1,949 street
children were rounded up from the streets of Uprooting Child Labor At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 31 May 2011] More than 8,200
vagabond kids were collected in Street children in Iran Morteza Aminmansour,
Persian Journal, Oct 25, 2004 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 31 May 2011] Most of them make
it only to big cities (Mashad, Street Children, Women Trafficking in Morteza Aminmansour,
Persian Journal, Dec 21, 2004 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 31 May 2011] Twenty–five
thousand child squatters, most of the girls, live on the streets of UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
IRIN, www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=40428 [accessed 31 May 2011] Every day, seven
days a week, Hamid stands in the middle of four lanes of unrelenting, heaving
Appeal
- Help street children in Iran Susan Bahar, The
Association for the Abolition of Child Labour in www.darvag.com/jamiat/kampain/appeal1.htm [accessed 31 May 2011] In the span of six
years the number of street children in Mashhad
Housing Second Largest Number Of Street Children In Islamic Republic News Agency IRNA, www.payvand.com/news/01/jul/1124.html [accessed 31 May 2011] Mashhad is home to
the second largest group of street children after the capital Azam Gorgin/Charles
Recknagel, Radio Free Europe/Radio At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 31 May 2011] Recent reports in
the Iranian press that 100 to 150 of the country's street children die each
month have shed new light on the plight of small children who are forced to
work on the streets. In the second of a two-part series on All
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