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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Information about Street Children - Niger [DOC] This report is taken from “A Civil Society
Forum for Francophone Africa on Promoting and Protecting the Rights of Street
Children”, 2-5 June 2004, At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 27 June 2011] The fundamental
cause of the street child phenomenon is poverty, although this acts in
combination with a number of other factors such as the exclusive and
inappropriate education system (30% of school drop outs end up on the
streets), intra-familial conflict and parental neglect/abuse, population
pressure and the practice of using very young children as beggars to
supplement income. ***
ARCHIVES *** UNICEF
– www.unicef.org/infobycountry/niger.html [accessed 27 June 2011] The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/niger.htm [accessed 12 December 2010] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Children also shine shoes; guard cars; work as apprentices
for artisans, tailors, and mechanics; perform domestic work; and work as
porters and street beggars. Some
Koranic teachers indenture young boys and send them to beg in the streets. Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61585.htm [accessed 12 December 2010] CHILDREN
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Although the law provides that the government promote children's welfare,
financial resources for this purpose were extremely limited. Education was
compulsory and free for a minimum period of six years; however, according to
the Ministry of Basic Education, only approximately 50 percent of children of
primary school age attended school. There were many
displaced children, mostly boys, begging on the streets of the larger cities.
Most of these boys came from rural areas and were indentured to Koranic
schools by their parents due to economic hardship. Concluding Observations of the Committee on
the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 7
June 2002 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/niger2002.html [accessed 4 March 2011] [66] The Committee
is concerned at the number of children who are begging in the streets. The
Committee notes that part of these child beggars are scholars under the
guardianship of Islamic religious education teachers. The Committee is
concerned at their vulnerability to all forms of exploitation. [68] The Committee
is concerned at the increasing number of child victims of sexual
exploitation, including for prostitution and pornography, especially among
child laborers and street children. Concern is also expressed at the
insufficient programs for the physical and psychological recovery and social
reintegration of child victims of such abuse and exploitation. Information about Street Children - This report is taken from “A Civil Society
Forum for Francophone Africa on Promoting and Protecting the Rights of Street
Children”, 2-5 June 2004, At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 27 June 2011] The fundamental
cause of the street child phenomenon is poverty, although this acts in
combination with a number of other factors such as the exclusive and
inappropriate education system (30% of school drop outs end up on the
streets), intra-familial conflict and parental neglect/abuse, population
pressure and the practice of using very young children as beggars to
supplement income. Committee on the Rights to the Child (CRC)
- Reports to Treaty Bodies For the Record 2002: The United Nations
Human Rights System -- Publication produced by Human Rights Internet (HRI) in
partnership with the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International
Trade (DFAIT) At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 27 June 2011] Noted with concern
were ... the existence of slavery in some parts of the country; the number of
children who are begging in the streets and their vulnerability to all forms
of exploitation; the increasing number of child victims of sexual
exploitation, including for prostitution and pornography, especially among
child laborers and street children; the absence of juvenile courts, and the
limited number of juvenile judges, social workers and teachers working in
this field. Children Rights ECPAT:
CSEC Country Report nigergroup.pbworks.com/w/page/23964283/Nina [accessed 27 June 2011] [scroll down to
CHILDREN RIGHTS] The prostitution of
boys is another emerging phenomenon in the country, involving in most cases
street children and children in conflict with the law. Reports have indicated
that boys as young as 12 were involved in this form of exploitation. Taking action for girls' education [PDF] Links - A newsletter on
gender for Oxfam Great Britain (GB) staff and partners, October 2003 www.oxfam.org.uk/resources/learning/gender/links/downloads/links1003.pdf [accessed 27 June 2011] [page 4] RECORD BREAKERS - An amazing 1.8
million children from Plan
Plan International www.plan-uk.org/wherewework/westafrica/niger/ [Last access date to the following posting
on the Plan website is unavailable] SOME OF THE REASONS
PLAN WORKS IN Eugene Richards - Seeing-Eye Children Themes (a bimonthly documentary photography
magazine) -- edited by John Vink, associated at Magnum
photo www.magic.be/themes3/Theme3bis.html [accessed 27 June 2011] EUGENE RICHARDS -
SEEING-EYE CHILDREN
- In Niger many children are compelled to act as guides for their parents who
suffer from onchocerciasis, or river blindness. There is the story of Boube, 9 years old,
who walks his father when he goes panhandling on the streets of “Send my friend to school” plead the
children Plan International At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 27 June 2011] Plan All
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