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– Lithuania www.unicef.org/infobycountry/lithuania.html [accessed 14 June 2011] The Department of Labor’s 2003 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2003/lithuania.htm [accessed 18 February 2011] GOVERNMENT
POLICIES AND PROGRAMS TO ELIMINATE THE WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR - In November 2001,
an interdepartmental task force was established to develop a strategy to
address the problem of neglected children and street children. INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Statistics on the number of working children under
the age of 15 years in Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61660.htm [accessed 18 February 2011] CHILDREN
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Several thousand children reportedly lived on the street. Sixty regional
government children's rights protection agencies, other institutions, and
numerous NGOs routinely assisted these children. Street children had full
access to government sponsored free services. There were no reports of police
abuse of street children. Concluding Observations
of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child,
26 January 2001 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/lithuania2001.html [accessed 18 February 2011] [49] The Committee
is concerned at the reported increasing use of drugs, including psychotropic
substances, among children and adolescents in the State party, in particular
those living in the street. Further it notes that the present welfare service
system is unable to deal with the growing need for services. [51] The Committee
expresses its concern at the number of children living and working in the
streets and notes that the programs and mechanisms established to assist them
are not sufficient. Committee
on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) Concluding Observations International Covenant on Economic, Social
and Cultural Rights, 29th meeting, 14-05-2004 sim.law.uu.nl/SIM/CaseLaw/uncom.nsf/0/dc6f7a5b9f384505c1256e98004990ac?OpenDocument [accessed 14 June 2011] 22. The Committee
is concerned about the problem of street children in the State party as well
as the lack of information about children placed in institutions. 44. The Committee
urges the State party to combat the phenomenon of street children as a matter
of priority. In this regard, the State party should take effective measures
to address the root causes of neglect, abuse and abandonment, particularly
through increased assistance to families with children. It also requests the
State party to provide in its second periodic report detailed information and
up-to-date comparative statistics on this issue. ISHR [access information unavailable] THE MAIN ACTIVITIES – [3] Children having
problems in families or collected from the streets are provided with
accommodation in a shelter, arranged with financial support of Swedish
government, commodities and clothes comes from Wittlich
IFGM charity. Due to the efforts taken
by the public offices, society and volunteers during a few years the number
of homeless and the "street children" was significantly diminished. Committee on the Rights of the Child -
Reports by States – 2001 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child,
26th session ( olddoc.ishr.ch/hrm/tmb/treaty/crc/reports/crc_23-41/CRC_26.htm [accessed 14 June 2011] [scroll down] LITHUANIA (INITIAL
REPORT)
- Other areas of concern included the lack of sufficient mechanisms to assist
street children, long periods of pre-trial detention for juvenile offenders,
increases in alcohol, tobacco and substance abuse by children, and high rates
of child morbidity and deaths due to trauma and accidents. Street Children At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 14 June 2011] OBJECTIVES - To protect
children’s rights To implement national crime prevention program To organize
cultural, educational work To give an opportunity for children to spend
free-time purposefully The Gift to Jeanne Dorr, lithuanian-american.org/bridges/iss1099/gift.html [accessed 14 June 2011] A CHILD’S GATE TO
LEARNING
- Child’s Gate to Learning supports efforts already under way in All
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