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Abuse & Exploitation of Street Children In the first decade of the 21st Century gvnet.com/streetchildren/Turkmenistan.htm
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and accompanying text have been culled from the web to illuminate the
situation 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. *** ARCHIVES *** Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61681.htm [accessed 11
February 2020] CHILDREN
- The
government provided nine years of basic education for girls and boys. Primary
and secondary education was free and compulsory. The government stated
approximately 95 percent of children between the ages of 7 and 16 attended school on a regular basis; however, a 2003 UN Development
Program report listed school attendance at 81 percent. Most children
completed school and some went on to university and vocational schools.
Although children no longer worked in the cotton fields in a number of
agricultural areas, schools were disrupted because teachers were called to
pick cotton. SECTION
6 WORKER RIGHTS
– [d] There are laws and policies to protect children from exploitation in
the workplace but they were not implemented effectively. The minimum age for
employment of children is 16 years; in a few heavy industries, it is 18
years. The law prohibits children between the ages of 16 and 18 years from
working more than 6 hours per day (the normal workday was 8 hours). A 15‑year-old
child may work 4 to 6 hours per day with parental and trade union permission,
although such permission was rarely granted. Child labor laws were not
effectively enforced in practice, although implementation appeared to have
improved during the year. UNICEF Welcomes New
Turkmen Law At one time this article
had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 2 August
2011] The United Nations
Children's Fund (UNICEF) has welcomed a decision by the Turkmen parliament to
pass legislation banning child labor and guaranteeing freedom from economic
exploitation as a right of children, IRIN reported. ECPAT: Turkmenistan ECPAT International www.ecpat.net/eng/Ecpat_inter/projects/monitoring/online_database/countries.asp?arrCountryID=179&CountryProfile= &CSEC=Overview&Implement=&Nationalplans=&orgWorkCSEC=&DisplayBy=optDisplayCountry [Last access date
unavailable] CSEC
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