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CAUTION: The following links
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
that are available on-line. Teachers Check out some of
the Resources
for Teachers attached to this website. ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/mauritius.htm [accessed 20
February 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - The ILO estimated that 1.4 percent of children ages
10 to 14 years in Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61582.htm [accessed 10
February 2020] CHILDREN
- The
government placed strong emphasis on the health and welfare of children and
displayed a commitment to expand educational opportunities for children. The
Ombudsman for Children's Issues ensured that the rights, needs, and interests
of children were given full consideration by government, private authorities,
individuals, and associations. During the year the
Education Act increased the age of free, universal, and compulsory education
from age 12 to age 16. Authorities treated girls and boys equally at the
primary, secondary, and post-secondary levels. The majority of children
finished secondary education. More than 90 percent of primary students
attended school. The government
provided full medical care for both boys and girls Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 11 October 1996 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/mauritius1996.html [accessed 1 March
2011] [11] The Committee
is concerned at the insufficient attention paid, at both national and local
levels, to the need for an efficient monitoring mechanism that could provide
a systematic and comprehensive compilation of data and indicators on all
areas covered by the Convention and in relation to all groups of children,
especially those who are victims of child abuse, ill-treatment or child labor
or the administration of juvenile justice, as well as the girl child,
children of single-parent families and those born out of wedlock, abandoned,
institutionalized and disabled children, and children who, in order to
survive, are living and/or working in the streets. [12] With regard to
the implementation of article 4 of the Convention, the Committee notes with
concern the inadequacy of measures taken to ensure the implementation of
children's economic, social and cultural rights to the maximum extent of
available resources. The Committee is particularly concerned at the
insufficient measures and programs for the protection of the rights of the
most vulnerable children, especially children who are victims of abuse,
children of single parents, children born out of wedlock, abandoned children,
disabled children, children living in poverty and children who, in order to
survive, are living and/or working in the streets. The Committee is also
concerned at the lack of disaggregated data in relation to budgetary
allocations for children. Consortium for
Street Children Consortium for
Street Children 2004 At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 19 June
2011] In 2003, UNICEF
ended their programs in All material
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