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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Information about
Street Children - Tunisia [DOC] 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article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 1 August
2011] Education is
compulsory from ages 6-16 in ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of
Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/tunisia.htm [accessed 9 March
2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Education is compulsory and free between the ages of
6 and 16. As of 2001, 95.5 percent of
children who started primary school were likely to reach grade 5. CURRENT
GOVERNMENT POLICIES AND PROGRAMS TO ELIMINATE THE WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR - The Government of
Tunisia’s policies aim to protect children through enforcement of relevant
laws and to create jobs for adults so that children can attend school. Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61700.htm [accessed 11
February 2020] CHILDREN
- The
government demonstrated a strong commitment to free and universal public
education, which is compulsory from age 6 to 16 years. According to the UN
Children's Fund (UNICEF), 95 percent of boys and 93 percent of girls were in
primary school, and approximately 73 percent of boys and 76 percent of girls
were in secondary school. Convictions for
abandonment and assault on minors carried severe penalties. There was no
societal pattern of child abuse. 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/tunisia2002.html [accessed 9 March
2011] [39] While
welcoming the State party's commitment to making basic education a priority
and achieving virtually universal access to education, the Committee remains
concerned at the repetition and drop out rates, which, while decreasing,
continue to pose a significant challenge to the educational system … [43] While
welcoming the State party's strict criminal legislation regarding sexual
abuse and exploitation of children, the Committee is concerned at reports
indicating its existence in the State party, both at home and in the street.
The Committee is further concerned at the insufficient data on and awareness
of the phenomenon of sexual abuse and exploitation of children in All
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