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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Algeria aims to defend children's rights Nazim Fethi, Magharebia, www.magharebia.com/cocoon/awi/xhtml1/en_GB/features/awi/features/2007/06/05/feature-02 [accessed 28 March 2011] In an attempt to tackle juvenile
delinquency, the government has decided that the best solution is to
reintroduce offending children into schools. It has thus planned to establish
a child protection research and monitoring centre, to be overseen by the
Ministry of Employment and Solidarity. Employment Ministry General Secretary Abdellah Bouchenak announced
that "this centre will gather data from all 48 wilayas
on matters such as the situation of street children, and will also clarify
the sociological, psychological and medical aspects of the care these
children need." This will make it possible to "improve and step up
efforts to provide special care for this group in society." In a bid to reintegrate children
into the schooling system, the government has introduced vocational training
for pupils who have dropped out. Only 200,000 seats were made available in
the programme, well below the approximately 450,000
children who abandoned their studies last year. Additionally, attendance is
not mandatory for vocational training, which makes it more difficult to
recruit students in large numbers. ***
ARCHIVES *** UNICEF - The
Big Picture www.unicef.org/infobycountry/algeria.html [accessed 28 March 2011] Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61685.htm [accessed 18 January 2011] CHILDREN - The government provides free
education for children through high school. Free education is compulsory
until the age of 16. The most recent figures released by the Ministry of
National Education show that in 2004, more than 90 percent of children
completed the ninth grade, on average the highest grade level normally attained
by students. Boys and girls generally received the same education, although
rural girls were slightly more likely to leave school because of familial
financial reasons, and sons were often given educational priority. Economic necessity compelled many children
to resort to informal employment, such as street vending. SECTION 6
WORKER RIGHTS – [d]
No child labor was reported in the industrial sector; however, economic
necessity compelled many children to resort to informal employment. Many
children worked part time or full time in small workshops, on family farms,
and in informal trade. A report from the Ministry of National Solidarity in
2004 stated that more than 25,000 children between the ages of 6 and 14 were
working in the informal economy. Concluding Observations of the
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 30 September
2005 sim.law.uu.nl/SIM/CaseLaw/uncom.nsf/0/523d3e252376630ec1257092002f7426?OpenDocument [accessed 18 January 2011] [76] The Committee takes note of
the findings of a study conducted in 2001 that children become street
children due to socio-economic problems, such as poor housing, unemployment
and poverty, and family problems, such as domestic violence and abuse, and it
is concerned that these root causes of the phenomenon of street children are
not sufficiently addressed. In addition, the Committee is concerned about
street children's limited access to adequate nutrition, clothing, housing,
social and health services and education and their vulnerability to economic
and sexual exploitation. Nazim Fethi, Magharebia, www.magharebia.com/cocoon/awi/xhtml1/en_GB/features/awi/features/2007/06/05/feature-02 [accessed 28 March 2011] In an attempt to tackle juvenile delinquency,
the government has decided that the best solution is to reintroduce offending
children into schools. It has thus planned to establish a child protection
research and monitoring centre, to be overseen by the Ministry of Employment
and Solidarity. Employment Ministry General Secretary Abdellah
Bouchenak announced that "this centre will
gather data from all 48 wilayas on matters such as
the situation of street children, and will also clarify the sociological,
psychological and medical aspects of the care these children need." This
will make it possible to "improve and step up efforts to provide special
care for this group in society." In a bid to reintegrate children
into the schooling system, the government has introduced vocational training
for pupils who have dropped out. Only 200,000 seats were made available in
the programme, well below the approximately 450,000
children who abandoned their studies last year. Additionally, attendance is
not mandatory for vocational training, which makes it more difficult to
recruit students in large numbers. 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 20 September 2011] A lack of cohesion between family
members was a particularly common reason, and three-quarters of the children
interviewed said this was their main reason for leaving. Violence appeared to
be widespread, with over 60% of them admitting being victims of violence
within their families. EU-Funded
Initiative to Help Algeria’s Children Daily News, February 10 2005 www.turks.us/article.php?story=20050210074127458 [accessed 28 March 2011] On the phenomenon of street
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