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Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 CHILDREN - Public education was compulsory,
free, and universal until the age of 17. The Ministry of Education reported
100 percent elementary school attendance, 97 percent middle school
attendance, and 88 percent high school attendance during the year; the UN Children's
Fund reported the elementary school figure was approximately 88 percent. The
highest level of education achieved by the majority of children was high
school. In impoverished rural areas, large families sometimes placed a higher
priority on the education of male children and kept girls to work in the
home. Some poor families forced their children to beg rather than attend
school. A large number of refugee and IDP
children lived in substandard conditions in camps and public buildings. In
some cases, these children were unable to attend school. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - 1997 [21] The Committee is deeply concerned
about the consequences of armed conflict on families, in particular the
emergence of a population of unaccompanied children, orphans and abandoned
children. [23] While welcoming the fact that
the State party has recently released a study on children working and/or
living on the street, the recent increase in the number of such children is a
matter of concern. The Committee also expresses its serious concern at the
increase in the number of child prostitutes, and that the State party does
not have a clear strategy to combat the abuse and sexual exploitation of
children. Azerbaijan
State Committee on Family, Women, Children Requires Additional Authorities According to her, Azerbaijan has
no official statistical data on its street-children, because most of these
children return to their families after some time. Educational institutes are
also responsible for the problem. Most street-children go to secondary
school, where control over attendance is poor, she said. Street
Children Beg For Livelihood In Baku Fagan lives in the Bileceri district with his mother and brothers. He didn’t
want to say how much he earns in a day, but whispers that he has to pay out
half of this money as ’protection’ for working on the street. His story is
more common than ever. In Soviet times, to call someone a "street child"
amounted to an insulting exaggeration. Since the Real Lives -
Azerbaijan Diary: A Sting In The Tale “We have regular customers who
park their cars and we wash them. When they leave work, they pay
us." The police don’t hassle them
on the proviso that they take 60% of the boys’ earnings. So net profit
usually ends up as approximately a dollar per boy per day. The boys drop in and out of school.
Ridicule appears to be a feature of the alienation process. "They jeer
at me for not having a change of clothes. Even the principal told me not to
come to school if I didn’t wear the right clothes" Some of them have mothers, but no
fathers; some have fathers, but no mothers.
They’re in difficult financial situations, and so, they are forced
onto the streets to earn money for their families. But these boys face a major problem when
they become 18. They have nothing to
do, they can’t find work and so they can’t eat. They need some sort of profession. Consortium
for Street Children Street children in Special Rapporteur On The Sale Of Children, Child Prostitution & Pornography [DOC] 3.
INFORMATION ON INITIATIVES (a) INSTITUTIONAL AND POLICY MEASURES - It was decided to create a
children’s police force (taking account of international experience) and to
recruit persons trained as teachers, particularly women specialists, as
members of the police force, to establish crisis centers (psychosocial
rehabilitation centers), to set up anonymous telephone lines (hotlines) and
to conduct special training for this purpose. Azerbaijan Probes
Child-Organ Traffickers STREET
CHILDREN - During the
Soviet system, there was a specific government plan and specific policy which
was directed towards the welfare of each individual but unfortunately, after gaining
independence, this old system just collapsed and there is no alternative,
which could - which should - replace it. All material used herein
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