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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Real Lives - Azerbaijan Diary: A Sting In The Tale Lynn Geldof, United Nations
Children's Fund UNICEF www.unicef.org/ceecis/reallives_1495.html [accessed 2 April 2011] “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" ***
ARCHIVES *** UNICEF - The
Big Picture www.unicef.org/infobycountry/azerbaijan.html [accessed 2 April 2011] Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61637.htm [accessed 20 January 2011] 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) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 6 June 1997 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/azerbaijan1997.html [accessed 25 February 2011] [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. S. Ilhamgizi, Trend News Agency news.trendaz.com/index.shtml?show=news&newsid=1037598&lang=EN This article has been archived by World Street Children
News and may possibly still be accessible [here] According to her, Street
Children Beg For Livelihood In Konul Khalilova,
www.eurasianet.org/departments/rights/articles/eav050802.shtml [accessed 2 April 2011] 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 - Lynn Geldof, United Nations
Children's Fund UNICEF www.unicef.org/ceecis/reallives_1495.html [accessed 2 April 2011] “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" Helping
Street Children Chloe Arnold, Deutsche Welle
DW-WORLD.DE, 01.09.2007 www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,1103828,00.html [accessed 2 April 2011] 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 Consortium for Street Children, 2004 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 21 September 2011] Street children in Special Rapporteur On The www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/children/rapporteur/Russia
Gov Translation.doc [accessed 2 April 2011] 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. BBC News, 23 February, 2004 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3513439.stm [accessed 20 January 2011] 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. The Protection Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/azerbaijan.doc [accessed 2009] FACTORS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO THE
TRAFFICKING INFRASTRUCTURE - Poor social and economic conditions for women and children make
them vulnerable to trafficking. Women’s lower social status and lack of
decently paid work opportunities compel them to seek employment outside of
Azerbaijan. Furthermore, with the
collapse of the Soviet Union, the social welfare system ceased to function
effectively in Azerbaijan, thereby forcing many children onto the streets,
where they are vulnerable to exploitation. - htsccp All material used herein
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