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Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2008/wha/119144.htm [accessed 19 January 2011] CHILDREN - While the government repeatedly
expressed its commitment to children's rights, in practice its efforts to
protect those rights were limited. Schools faced many shortages, and parents
typically provided desks, chairs, and uniforms, and often purchased books. Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of
the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 3 November 2004 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/antigua2004.html [accessed 24 February 2011] 57. The Committee welcomes the
decision by the Board of Education to award scholarships and bursaries to
children and the Board’s Textbook Assistance Scheme, which provides children,
free of cost, with all the textbooks used in school at the primary and
secondary levels. It welcomes the provision of free uniforms as of September
2004 in both primary and secondary schools, and the plan to introduce free meals
in primary schools. It also notes with appreciation that education is free at
all levels of the public school system until the age of 16. However, it
remains concerned about a variety of problems, including: shortage of schools
and overcrowding; material shortages in schools; equality of access to
education; drop-out of boys. The Committee is also concerned that, owing to
the entrance examination system, not all students are guaranteed entry into
the free public secondary schools. 60. The Committee notes with
appreciation the State party’s ratification in September 2002 of the Worst
Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182). The Committee expresses
concern, however, about the atmosphere of complacency, which may reduce
efforts to prevent and eliminate child labour Committee On Rights Of Child Concludes Thirty-Seventh
Session Press Release HR/4796, UN Information Service, www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2004/hr4796.doc [accessed 29 March 2011] And with regards to the report of The Committee was seriously
concerned that no safe houses or places of alternative care existed for boys
who suffered from parental neglect or who needed to be removed from their
family environment, and that they were generally placed in the facility for
boys in conflict with the law. It was further concerned that there were
no officially designated places of safety for children victims of abuse,
where they could stay until their cases were heard by a magistrate and that
in practice, children were usually held at the police station, which raised
serious alarm. The Committee therefore recommended that the State party
take the necessary measures to prevent child abuse and neglect. All material used herein
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