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and accompanying text have been culled from the web to illuminate the
situation in 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
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Child beggars
thrive on Muslim holy season in Gulf states Agence France-Presse AFP, afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hFh6zrO4h7AAb3jdLXcaQJTHbBWg [accessed 10 June
2011] www.middle-east-online.com/English/?id=22647 [accessed 21
December 2016] According to a
study by the Imam Mohammad bin Saud Islamic University in Riyadh published in
the Saudi daily Okaz, more than 80,000 "street
children" can be found at any one time in the six oil-rich Gulf Arab
monarchies -- Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and
the United Arab Emirates. ***
ARCHIVES *** Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2003/27931.htm [accessed 9 February
2020] CHILDREN
- The
government is generally committed to the rights and welfare of citizen
children for whom education is free through the university level. Primary and
secondary education are compulsory and universal. The Ministry of Planning
estimated primary enrollment at 87 percent for the 2004-05 academic year. In
the 2003-04 school year, 57 percent of children completed secondary school.
Both boys and girls had equal access to the same quality of education. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 9 October 1998 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/kuwait1998.html [accessed 1 March
2011] [25] The Committee
is concerned at the recent increase in the number of children living and/or
working on the streets, especially children of the Bedoon community. It
recommends that all appropriate measures be taken to provide access to school
to all children and prevent and combat school dropout. It also recommends the
development of vocational training projects, as well as of adequate social
programs. Committee On Rights
Of Child Continues Consideration Of Report Of Kuwait UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 29 September 1998 www.unhchr.ch/huricane/huricane.nsf/0/A6865DFC0726D0598025668E005A0432?opendocument [accessed 10 June
2011] Committee members
raised further questions on street children and beggary; prison
conditions for juvenile delinquents; rehabilitation of juvenile offenders;
prohibition of child labor; protection of children from violent electronic
media; landmines; and traditional practices prejudicial to children, among
other things. In response to the
additional questions, the delegation said that there was no practice of
beggary in Street
Children--Long-time NEF Concern - Major New Arab Initiative The Near East
Foundation, November 23, 2004 At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 10 June
2011] Children's Rights Human Rights Watch
World Report 2001 www.hrw.org/legacy/wr2k1/print/html/children.htm [accessed 10 June
2011] REFUGEE, IMMIGRANT,
AND STATELESS CHILDREN
- Children of longtime Bidun residents of Human Rights Developments Human Rights Watch
World Report 2001 www.hrw.org/legacy/wr2k1/mideast/kuwait.html [accessed 10 June
2011] More than 100,000
long-term residents of Gap persists
between principles of children's rights convention, daily violation of those
rights, Press Release
GA/SHC/3429 20th Meeting (PM) 30 October 1997 www.un.org/News/Press/docs/1997/19971030.GASH3429.P2.html [accessed 10 June
2011] THIRD COMMITTEE - 4
- PRESS RELEASE
- Mansour Al-Omar ( All
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