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Prevalence, Abuse & Exploitation of Street Children Islamic The Islamic Republic of Iran [map], located in SW
Asia, is bordered by Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, and the Caspian Sea
(N); by Afghanistan and Pakistan (E); by the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of
Oman (S); and by Turkey and Iraq (W).
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on Human Rights Practices - 2005 CHILDREN - There are reportedly significant
numbers of children, particularly Afghan but also Iranian, working as street
vendors in Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - 2005 [59] Although the Committee notes
the high level of literacy in [64] The Committee continues to be
concerned about the large number of children living and/or working in the
streets, particularly in urban centers such as Iran
street children rights, human rights Most of these street children who
were rounded up from the streets of Tehran by the authorities, according to
the head of Social Service in the Iranian capital?s town hall. The majority of these children had
run away from their homes to escape social pressures (because the parents
lost jobs, addicted to drugs or involved in illegal activities). Lot of these children make it only
to big cities (Mashad, Tehran, Isfahan, Tabriz) to end
up in situations as poor as those that they left their homes. Typically, this
type of children are in the age of 10 to 18 years old with many siblings and
a mother who earns a living by washing clothes, cleaning homes for very low
paid jobs (because they do not have any skills) sending heir children out to
sell small goods or other products. Often abused within the family crises by
family members or outside by strangers, increasing numbers of these children
look elsewhere for support without any chances. With no papers or any other
kind of documents and little money, they are easily transformed into street
children and criminal activities. Laws
Are Not Enough: An Interview with Mehrangiz Kar on Children's Rights In the current academic year of 2007-2008,
about three million children, according to official sources, and five million
children, according to unofficial sources, have been prevented from attending
primary and middle schools across the country. Instead of finding a solution
to this predicament and removing obstacles, the Iranian officials have
threatened parents, mandating that if they refuse to send their children to
primary and middle school, they would be fined up to 1,200 dollars. These
threats have no effect. Low-income segments of society prefer to generate
illegal income by forcing their children to beg on streets rather than send
them to school. A
generation of street kids hustling in Iran Atefeh is one of the younger members of
Iran's merchant class. Her sales territory is the notorious traffic jams of
north Tehran. She moves in on potential clients when the light turns red,
pressing her face to car windows, cocking her head to one side and putting on
a plaintive face. At 12, she isn't as good at
plaintive as some of her younger competitors, two boys who are hawking
Koranic inscriptions and balloons just up the street. Sometimes her face
looks more furious than sad. But she still can clear 55 cents a day selling
her packages of pink-and-red strawberry chewing gum to bored and surly
drivers. A decade ago, street children were
rare in Iran, with its long traditions of charity for the poor, government
aid programs and strong family connections. No more. About 55% of the city's street
children are offspring of the estimated 1.5 million refugees who have flooded
into Iran from Afghanistan in waves over the last 20 years, school officials
say, and many of the rest are children of single parents, mixed-nationality
families or Gypsies. Many come from the growing number of families beset by
drug addiction as heroin shipments across the Afghan border have multiplied
since the fall of the Taliban in 2001. Most
runaway girls in Iran raped within first 24 hours “Internal trafficking of women and
girls for sexual exploitation and children for forced labor also takes
place”, it said, adding that such practices are fuelled by an increasing
number of vulnerable groups, such as runaway women, street children, and drug
addicts. Needy
Youngsters Live On City Streets Record
Number Of Street Children In Iran Capital Some 1,949 street children were
rounded up from the streets of More than 8,200 vagabond kids were
collected in Most of them make it only to big
cities (Mashad, Street Children, Women Trafficking in Iran (part 2) Twenty–five thousand child squatters, most of the girls, live on the streets of Tehran, where growing drug use and prostitution are leading to a social crisis. Iranian MP Amani warned of the consequence of social inequalities on the young, calling "the unfair distribution of wealth" the main culprit of Iran's social ills. Every day, seven days a week,
Hamid stands in the middle of four lanes of unrelenting, heaving Appeal - Help street
children in Iran In the span of six years the
number of street children in Mashhad Housing Second
Largest Number Of Street Children In Iran Mashhad is home to the second
largest group of street children after the capital Iran:
Street Children Receive Limited Help (Part 2) Recent reports in the Iranian
press that 100 to 150 of the country's street children die each month have
shed new light on the plight of small children who are forced to work on the
streets. In the second of a two-part series on All material used herein
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