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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Children’s Day Nothing to Celebrate in Burma Min Lwin, The www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=10369 [accessed 12 April 2011] Poverty, the economic crisis and
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ARCHIVES *** UNICEF – www.unicef.org/infobycountry/myanmar.html [accessed 12 April 2011] Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61603.htm [accessed 25 January 2011] CHILDREN – Children under the age of 18
constituted approximately 40 percent of the population. Children were at high
risk as destitute parents took them out of school to beg or to work in factories and
teashops. Some were placed in orphanages. With few or no skills, increasing
numbers of children worked in the informal economy or in the street, where
they were exposed to drugs, petty crime, risk of arrest, sexual abuse and
exploitation, and HIV/AIDS. Concluding Observations of the
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 24-01-1997 sim.law.uu.nl/SIM/CaseLaw/uncom.nsf/0/0f90115e70a4b29ec125663c00343b92?OpenDocument [accessed 25 January 2011] [10] The Committee, while recognizing the efforts
undertaken by the State party in the collection of data, is concerned that
the system of data collection does not adequately disaggregate information so
as to reflect the situation of all children, particularly those belonging to
the most disadvantaged groups, including children belonging to minority
groups, children living in remote areas, disabled children, children living
and/or working in the street, children placed in institutions, including
institutions of a penal nature, ill-treated and abused children or children
from economically disadvantaged groups. Such disaggregated data would
contribute to the design of policies and programs for the effective and full
implementation of the provisions of the Convention Suffer the children Danielle Bernstein, Asia Times Online, www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/LK06Ae02.html [accessed 25 January 2011] Lin Htet Aung is 12 years old, scrappy but small for his age. He
came to Yangon from Sagaing division north of "I sleep right here in the shop," Lin Htet Aung says, pointing to a
small table in a filthy corner of the smoky shop. The long hours aren't the
worst part of his job, which he's held for nearly two years. "I don't like working here because they beat me
sometimes, but I'm not a bad kid," he said. I'll be going back home in a
few months, so I'm very happy. I probably won't go back to school when I go
home, but I don't mind." Children’s Day Nothing to Celebrate in Burma Min Lwin, The www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=10369 [accessed 12 April 2011] Poverty, the economic crisis and
instability in Burma drives more and more children in search of jobs. Some
work from 5 a.m. until late at night in tea shops, bars and factories, often
earning just 7,000 kyat ($ US5.72) per month. A resident in Rangoon told The Irrawaddy recently that the amount of street children in
the former capital is now increasing. “Many children aged between 4 and 13
are begging on the streets. Some young children are carrying babies and
begging. Some street children look for plastic in the rubbish bins and dumps
and some go fishing every day for their daily survival,” she said. According
to reports, sometimes street children who can’t produce ID are recruited into
the Burmese army. Economic Crisis Fueling Child Labor, Trafficking Saw Yan Naing,
The www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=9627 [accessed 25 January 2011] The economic crisis and
instability in Meanwhile, the results of child
trafficking has had a huge impact on the education of many Burmese migrant
children, forcing the children into hard labor in factories, sweat shops and
even into the sex trade, according to Burmese migrant education groups. Many victims under the age of 18 have become
street beggars and sex workers instead of studying at school, said Paw Ray,
the chairperson of the BMWEC, which operates nearly 50 schools for children
of Burmese migrant workers in Mae Sot. Agence France-Presse
AFP, afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5i5sgDe5nc_q0BvgvxntVLr5YCKNA [accessed 25 January 2011] In a statement released Friday, UN
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that both the
military government and rebel groups continued to violate children's rights
by recruiting underage soldiers.
Citing a recent UN report, he said that the government was picking up street children or those without
national identity cards and offering them the choice of arrest or joining the
army. Myanmar's military government
officially denies using child soldiers and has passed a law to outlaw the
practice. But human rights groups say
child soldiers in Myanmar remain alarmingly common, with boys as young as 12
recruited to fight the ethnic rebel armies in the country's border regions. – htsc Information about Street Children - Myanmar {DOC] This report is taken from “A Civil Society Forum for East
and South East Asia on Promoting and Protecting the Rights of Street
Children”, 12-14 March 2003, At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 21 September 2011] 75% initial enrolment in primary
school of which 25% drop out in 1st and 2nd year. Less than 50% of those remaining will
complete primary school and fewer still will graduate to secondary
school. Definitions and statistics: World Vision Children Find Refuge From Harsh Life On The Streets www.wvi.org/wvi/archives/asia/myanmar.htm [Last access date unavailable] Their deaths left eight children
in an extremely precarious situation. With no income and no social welfare
system to fall back on, the children had to fend for themselves. As their situation
worsened, both boys abandoned school. They could no longer pay the school
fees, or cover the cost of school uniforms, books and lunches. Their other
siblings also needed them to earn money.
Child
Soldiers In Marianne Bray, Cable News Network CNN, archives.cnn.com/2001/fyi/news/06/13/child.soldiers/ [accessed 12 April 2011] HUMAN SHIELDS - While some children are
recruited voluntarily for Chapter
3 - Nature and Extent of the Problem The Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization
SEAMEO www.seameo.org/vl/combat/3chap1.htm [accessed 12 April 2011] 3.1 CHILD LABOR EXPLOITATION IN
MEKONG SUBREGION - In
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