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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. ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/uzbekistan.htm [accessed 16 January
2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - UNICEF reports that approximately 34,500 children
are living and working on the streets in Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61684.htm [accessed 11
February 2020] CHILDREN
- The
law provides for children's rights and for free compulsory education through
secondary school. In practice shortages and budget difficulties meant that
many education expenses had to be paid by families. Teachers earned extremely
low salaries and routinely demanded regular payments from students and their
parents. According to government statistics, 98 percent of children completed
secondary school. However, anecdotal evidence indicated that children
increasingly dropped out of middle and high schools as economic circumstances
continued to deteriorate. The government
subsidized health care, including for children, and boys and girls enjoyed
equal access. As with education, low wages for doctors and poor funding of
the health sector led to a widespread system of informal payments for
services; in some cases this was a barrier to access for the poor. Those
without an officially registered address, such as street children and
children of migrant workers, did not have access to government health
facilities. Concluding
Observations Of The Committee On The Rights Of The Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 12 October 2001 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/uzbekistan2001.html [accessed 9 March
2011] [63] The Committee
notes that the negative effects of the current economic crisis and consequent
deterioration in the family environment have resulted in an increasing number
of street children in Supplementary
NGO Report - Executive Summary [DOC] Supplementary NGO
Report on the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the
Child in the www.crin.org/docs/resources/treaties/crc.28/Uzbekistan.doc [accessed 8 August
2011] REPORTS
OF THE STATE PARTIES ON THE CONVENTION - 3. GENERAL PRINCIPLES - A.
NON-DISCRIMINATION
- Street children represent one of the categories of children who are more often
exposed to discrimination because of the very few opportunities available for
their rehabilitation. Homeless Children
Become Focus Of Concern In Local Government And
Public Service Reform Initiative • Open Society Institute, LGI Journal, Fall
2003 lgi.osi.hu/publications/2003/247/fall2003.pdf [accessed 8 August
2011] [page 24] FOREIGNERS IN The Children -
Primary School Years United Nations
Children's Fund UNICEF www.unicef.org/uzbekistan/children_1682.html [accessed 8 August
2011] www.oit.org/dyn/normlex/fr/f?p=NORMLEXPUB:13100:0::NO::P13100_COMMENT_ID,P13100_LANG_CODE:2331971,en [accessed 15 January
2017] Article 7(2). Effective
and time-bound measures Clause (d). Children
at special risk. Street children The official number
of street children doubled between 2001 and 2004, to reach a total of 5,400
according to the Center of Social-Legal Assistance. Although primary school enrolment is high
(at 88% net according to SOWC 2005), attendance is significantly lower (78%,
source: SOWC 2005), particularly in rural areas, as a result of rising
indirect costs (such as books, meals, clothing and transportation) lower
perceived benefits, a decline in school facilities and a need for children to
contribute to household income. Children with special needs are particularly
affected. All
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