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CAUTION: The following links
and accompanying text have been culled from the web to illuminate the situation
in the Solomon Islands. 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 *** The Department of Labor’s 2005 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor [PDF] www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2005/tda2005.pdf [accessed 22
December 2010] INCIDENCE AND NATURE
OF CHILD LABOR
- Education in the CURRENT GOVERNMENT
POLICIES AND PROGRAMS TO ELIMINATE THE WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR - The Government
of the Solomon Islands has a National Youth Policy to address the welfare
needs of youth ages 14 to 29.4283 In order to promote access to primary
education, the government has abolished school fees. The government’s efforts
to improve teacher training facilities and to provide more materials for
schools have been hampered by its limited budget. Human Rights
Reports » 2006 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2006/78791.htm [accessed 11
February 2020] CHILDREN
- Most
children at the primary school level, where fees were eliminated in 2005,
attended school. All medical care for children was free; however, the lack of
resources seriously reduced the quality and availability of medical care. The law grants
children the same general rights and protections as adults, and there are
laws designed to protect children from sexual abuse, child labor, and
neglect. Children generally were respected and protected within the
traditional extended family system, in accordance with a family's financial
resources and access to services, although some cases of child abuse were
reported. Virtually no children were homeless or abandoned. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 6 June 2003 sim.law.uu.nl/SIM/CaseLaw/uncom.nsf/fe005fcb50d8277cc12569d5003e4aaa/73d1b40db7ea072a41256d42003b2016?OpenDocument [accessed 3
September 2012] [56] The Committee
is concerned that there are children forced to live on the streets and that
they are vulnerable to, inter alia, sexual abuse, violence, including from
the police, exploitation, lack of access to education, substance abuse, STIs
and malnutrition. Child sex tourism
offences in the Pacific Adapted from: ECPAT
International Newsletter, February-March, No. 51, At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 19 July
2011] SOLOMON ISLANDS -
CONFERENCE ON CHILD PROTECTION & COMMERCIAL SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF
CHILDREN
- The existence of CSEC in the Solomon Islands is beyond dispute. The
case of a Solomon Islands boy being brought to Australia for sexual purposes
was presented to the gathering. Further, Sr. Lilian, a community worker in
Honiara, discussed the increasing number of street children and prostitutes
in Honiara seen in the 20 years she has worked with the Sisters. All
material used herein reproduced under the fair use exception of 17 USC § 107
for noncommercial, nonprofit, and educational use. PLEASE RESPECT COPYRIGHTS OF COMPONENT
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