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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Summary Of Fact-Finding Mission To Kazakhstan Maitland J. At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 6 June 2011] HOW ILLICIT DRUG USE AFFECTS THE
LIVES OF PEOPLE IN KAZAKHSTAN - Young drug users and children of drug users have the most
difficulty coping. Children of arrested parents either go to a relative’s
home or to the children’s distribution center. (Ref. 10) The drug treatment
clinic Teen Challenge Kazakhstan tries to help children by creating a
drug-free environment with absolutely no police involvement. The facility is
maximum security, not to keep the "students" in, but to keep out
drug dealers and the police who try to arrest students. The facility is
uniquely known in the country for its confidentiality and lack of corruption. ***
ARCHIVES *** UNICEF – www.unicef.org/infobycountry/kazakhstan.html [accessed 6 June 2011] The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms
of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/kazakhstan.htm [accessed 16 February 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Children continue to be found begging, loading freight, delivering
goods in markets, washing cars, and working at gas stations. Reports also indicate a rise in the number
of children engaged in commercial sexual exploitation, pornography and drug
trafficking in urban areas. Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61656.htm [accessed 16 February 2011] CHILDREN - Education is mandatory through
age 16, or the ninth grade; elementary schooling generally begins at age 6.
Primary and secondary education was both free and universal. The law provides
for equal access to education by both boys and girls. According to Ministry
of Education figures, enrollment for the year was estimated at over 98
percent of school-aged children. The law provides for access to
public education for refugee and illegal migrant children. In some cases,
these children were denied access to schools or their parents did not attempt
to enroll them out of fear of discovery and deportation. The government has temporary
detention shelters for homeless
minors until they can be returned to their parents or more permanently
placed. Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of
the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 6 June 2003 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/kazakhstan2003.html [accessed 16 February 2011] [74] The Committee is extremely
concerned at: (a) The increasing number of street children and inappropriate
policies and programmes implemented by the juvenile
affairs services to address this situation;
(b) The inappropriateness of the preventive measures and at the
keeping of a special database on information on these children being
considered as social assistance with a view to preventing abandonment and
criminality; (c) The vulnerability of street
children to, inter alia, sexual abuse, violence,
including from the police, exploitation, exclusion from education, substance
abuse, sexually transmitted diseases, HIV/AIDS and malnutrition. Committee on the Rights of the Child At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 25 September 2011] Other areas of concern included
the following: the general lack of comprehensive information on the Criminal
Code and Criminal Procedure Code; the lack of effective measures to reduce and
eliminate child labor; the growing involvement of children in the sex
industry and the apparent indifference of society towards the issue of child
prostitution; the lack of specialized centers to provide services, including
psychotherapeutic assistance, as well as recovery and reintegration programs
for child victims of sexual violence; the increasing number of street
children and the inappropriate policies and programs to address this
situation. Child Creekin.net At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 25 September 2011] Monitoring www.svietimas.lt/english/researches/drop_outs.doc [accessed 6 June 2011] Drop-out is a problem in Summary Of Fact-Finding Maitland J. At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 6 June 2011] HOW ILLICIT DRUG USE AFFECTS THE
LIVES OF PEOPLE IN KAZAKHSTAN - Young drug users and children of drug users have the most
difficulty coping. Children of arrested parents either go to a relative’s home
or to the children’s distribution center. (Ref. 10) The drug treatment clinic
Teen Challenge Kazakhstan tries to help children by creating a drug-free
environment with absolutely no police involvement. The facility is maximum
security, not to keep the "students" in, but to keep out drug
dealers and the police who try to arrest students. The facility is uniquely
known in the country for its confidentiality and lack of corruption. Community Heroes Rescue Families Operation Blessing International, September 5th, 2002 www.ob.org/programs/medical_services/news/2002/ms_20020905_medexkazakstan.asp [accessed 6 June 2011] Nestled in a rural village of
southern Letter to the E.U. General
Affairs Council Human Rights Watch, E.U.-Kazakhstan and E.U.-Kyrgyzstan
Cooperation Council Meetings, July 5, 2004 www.hrw.org/en/news/2004/07/05/eu-kazakhstan-and-eu-kyrgyzstan-cooperation-council-meetings [accessed 6 June 2011] Juvenile Justice in The Danish Centre for Human Rights and UNICEF 2001,
Evaluations and Reviews of Partnership Programmes,
No 22, Assessment 2000 -- ISBN: 87-90744-50-0 -- ISSN: 1399-6029 www.humanrights.dk/files/pdf/Publikationer/eandr22.pdf [accessed 6 June 2011] 2. SUMMARY OF FINDINGS - In the case of A
Generation at Risk - Children of Kazakstan and Asian Development Bank ADB, April 1998 -- ISBN:
971-561-097-8 www.adb.org/Documents/Books/Generation_at_Risk/default.asp [accessed 12 June 2011] Children in All material used herein
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