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Prevalence, Abuse & Exploitation of Street Children In the
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Summary Of Fact-Finding Mission To Kazakhstan 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 - The Big Picture U.S.
Dept of Labor Bureau of International Labor Affairs 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. Bur of Democracy,
Human Rights & Labor - Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 CHILDREN - 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) - 2003 [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. www.hri.ca/fortherecord2003/vol3/kazakhstantb.htm At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] 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 Kazakhstan Waiting creekin.net/k12676-n94-child-kazakhstan-waiting-kazakhstan.html At one
time this article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
Monitoring
Initiative School Drop-Out Analysis [DOC] Drop-out is a problem in
Kazakhstan that is barely noticed.
According to official statistics only 0.2% of the schoolchildren drop
out. Thus it is not considered on the
national level and it is not a topic for broad discussion. The real problem, since independence, are
the new groups of “at risk” children like street children, children from
disadvantaged families and “oralmans” (Kazakh families repatriated from Summary Of Fact-Finding Mission To Kazakhstan 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 Nestled in a rural village of
southern Letter to the
E.U. General Affairs Council Juvenile Justice in Kazakhstan [PDF] www.humanrights.dk/files/pdf/Publikationer/eandr22.pdf www.streetchildren.org.uk/reports/eandr22.pdf 2. SUMMARY OF FINDINGS - In the case of All material used herein
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