Prevalence,
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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. ***
FEATURED ARTICLE *** Street
Children--Long-time NEF Concern - Major New Arab Initiative The Near East
Foundation, November 23, 2004 At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 10 June
2011] Street children
need prompt, effective interventions, if not to bring them back to their
homes, then at least to lessen their suffering from street life. In ***
ARCHIVES *** Human Rights Reports
» 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61699.htm [accessed 11
February 2020] CHILDREN
- The
government provided free, public education to citizen children from primary
school through university. Education is compulsory for all children, male and
female, between the ages of 6 and 12. Palestinians and
other non-citizens can send their children to school. Stateless Kurds can
also send their children to school but because they do not have any
identification, their children cannot attend state universities. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 6 June 2003 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/syrianarabrepublic2003.html [accessed 9 March
2011] [50] The Committee
welcomes the ratification of ILO Convention No. 138. It further welcomes the amendments to the
1959 Labour Code to increase the minimum age of admission to employment to 15
years. However, it remains concerned
that approximately 7 per cent of children under 14 are employed as workers
and that labour law provisions do not extend protection, including effective
inspections, for children engaged in work in the informal sector. Information about
Street Children - This report is taken
from “A Civil Society Forum for North Africa and the Middle East on Promoting
and Protecting the Rights of Street Children”, 3-6 March 2004, At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 27 July
2011] From data collected
on children in conflict with the law, beggars and child laborers, it appears
that there were just over 480 homeless children (233 male, 248 female)
arrested in Education Reform
Urged To Support Development UN Integrated
Regional Information Networks IRIN, www.irinnews.org/report/25288/syria-education-reform-urged-to-support-development [accessed 10 March
2015] The report noted a
number of disturbing trends in Syrian education. The rate of illiteracy rose from 17% in
2003 to 19% in 2005, with literacy rates showing an increased bias towards
urban and suburban areas, and male students, according to the report. Also, an estimated 25% of students leave
school before finishing their primary level education, while 67% of students
do not finish secondary education. All
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