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CAUTION: The following links and
accompanying text have been culled from the web to illuminate the situation
in Palau. Some of these links may lead
to websites that present allegations that are unsubstantiated or even
false. No attempt has been made to validate their authenticity or to
verify their content. 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 *** Human Rights
Reports » 2006 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2006/78786.htm [accessed 10
February 2020] CHILDREN
- The
government provided a well funded system of public education for children.
There was no difference in the treatment of girls and boys in educational
opportunities or in the availability of scholarships to attend postsecondary
education abroad. Education was free, universal, and mandatory from ages six
to 17. Of the 94 percent of school age children who attended school in 2005,
97 percent finished elementary school and 78 completed high school. Girls and
boys received equal treatment in health care services. SECTION
6 WORKER RIGHTS
– [d] The law states that the government shall protect children from
exploitation. There is no minimum age for employment. Children typically were
not employed in the wage economy, but some assisted their families with
fishing, agriculture, and other small scale family enterprises. 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/palau2001.html [accessed 15
December 2010] [38] The Committee
notes with concern the breakdown of the traditional extended family structure
and the increasing number of female-headed households, particularly in the
light of the lack of a welfare support system and alternative care
facilities, as well as of inadequate early child-care services. The Committee
further expresses concern at the increasing number of children living and/or
working on the streets and the lack of policies, programmes
and services to provide greater protection and care for these children and to
strengthen families. Calls, in
Preliminary Remarks, for Interpretation of Customary Laws UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 23 January 2001 – Press Release www.unhchr.ch/huricane/huricane.nsf/view01/605C30A89098CFC4C12569DE002C3CE6?opendocument [accessed 3 July
2011] DISCUSSION - Asked about the
situation of street children, the delegate said because of All
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