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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Summary Of Fact-Finding Mission To
Kazakhstan Maitland J. At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 6 June 2011] HOW ILLICIT DRUG USE
AFFECTS THE LIVES OF PEOPLE IN KAZAKHSTAN - Young drug users and children of drug
users have the most difficulty coping. Children of arrested parents either go
to a relative’s home or to the children’s distribution center. (Ref. 10) The
drug treatment clinic Teen Challenge Kazakhstan tries to help children by
creating a drug-free environment with absolutely no police involvement. The
facility is maximum security, not to keep the "students" in, but to
keep out drug dealers and the police who try to arrest students. The facility
is uniquely known in the country for its confidentiality and lack of
corruption. ***
ARCHIVES *** UNICEF
– www.unicef.org/infobycountry/kazakhstan.html [accessed 6 June 2011] The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on the
Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/kazakhstan.htm [accessed 16 February 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Children continue to be found begging, loading
freight, delivering goods in markets, washing cars, and working at gas
stations. Reports also indicate a rise
in the number of children engaged in commercial sexual exploitation,
pornography and drug trafficking in urban areas. Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61656.htm [accessed 16 February 2011] CHILDREN
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Education is mandatory through age 16, or the ninth grade; elementary
schooling generally begins at age 6. Primary and secondary education was both
free and universal. The law provides for equal access to education by both
boys and girls. According to Ministry of Education figures, enrollment for
the year was estimated at over 98 percent of school-aged children. The law provides
for access to public education for refugee and illegal migrant children. In
some cases, these children were denied access to schools or their parents did
not attempt to enroll them out of fear of discovery and deportation. The government has
temporary detention shelters for homeless
minors until they can be returned to their parents or more permanently
placed. Concluding Observations of the Committee on
the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 6
June 2003 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/kazakhstan2003.html [accessed 16 February 2011] [74] The Committee
is extremely concerned at: (a) The increasing number of street children and
inappropriate policies and programmes implemented
by the juvenile affairs services to address this situation; (b) The inappropriateness of the preventive
measures and at the keeping of a special database on information on these
children being considered as social assistance with a view to preventing
abandonment and criminality; (c) The
vulnerability of street children to, inter alia, sexual abuse, violence,
including from the police, exploitation, exclusion from education, substance
abuse, sexually transmitted diseases, HIV/AIDS and malnutrition. Committee on the Rights of the Child At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 25 September 2011] Other areas of
concern included the following: the general lack of comprehensive information
on the Criminal Code and Criminal Procedure Code; the lack of effective
measures to reduce and eliminate child labor; the growing involvement of
children in the sex industry and the apparent indifference of society towards
the issue of child prostitution; the lack of specialized centers to provide
services, including psychotherapeutic assistance, as well as recovery and
reintegration programs for child victims of sexual violence; the increasing
number of street children and the inappropriate policies and programs to
address this situation. Child Creekin.net At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 25 September 2011] Monitoring www.svietimas.lt/english/researches/drop_outs.doc [accessed 6 June 2011] Drop-out is a
problem in Summary Of Fact-Finding Maitland J. At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 6 June 2011] HOW ILLICIT DRUG USE
AFFECTS THE LIVES OF PEOPLE IN KAZAKHSTAN - Young drug users and children of drug
users have the most difficulty coping. Children of arrested parents either go
to a relative’s home or to the children’s distribution center. (Ref. 10) The
drug treatment clinic Teen Challenge Kazakhstan tries to help children by
creating a drug-free environment with absolutely no police involvement. The
facility is maximum security, not to keep the "students" in, but to
keep out drug dealers and the police who try to arrest students. The facility
is uniquely known in the country for its confidentiality and lack of
corruption. Community Heroes
Rescue Families Operation Blessing International, September
5th, 2002 www.ob.org/programs/medical_services/news/2002/ms_20020905_medexkazakstan.asp [accessed 6 June 2011] Nestled in a rural
village of southern Letter to the
E.U. General Affairs Council Human Rights Watch, E.U.-Kazakhstan and
E.U.-Kyrgyzstan Cooperation Council Meetings, July 5, 2004 www.hrw.org/en/news/2004/07/05/eu-kazakhstan-and-eu-kyrgyzstan-cooperation-council-meetings [accessed 6 June 2011] Juvenile Justice in The Danish Centre for Human Rights and
UNICEF 2001, Evaluations and Reviews of Partnership Programmes,
No 22, Assessment 2000 -- ISBN: 87-90744-50-0 -- ISSN: 1399-6029 www.humanrights.dk/files/pdf/Publikationer/eandr22.pdf [accessed 6 June 2011] 2. SUMMARY OF
FINDINGS
- In the case of A
Generation at Risk - Children of Kazakstan and Asian Development Bank ADB, April 1998 --
ISBN: 971-561-097-8 www.adb.org/Documents/Books/Generation_at_Risk/default.asp [accessed 12 June 2011] Children in All
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