Prevalence,
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CAUTION: The following links
and accompanying text have been culled from the web to illuminate the
situation in Kiribati. Some of these
links may lead to websites that present allegations that are unsubstantiated
or even false. No attempt has been made to validate their authenticity
or to verify their content. HOW TO USE THIS WEBPAGE Students If you are looking for
material to use in a term-paper, you are advised to scan the postings on this
page and others to see which aspect(s) of street life are of particular
interest to you. You might be
interested in exploring how children got there, how they survive, and how
some manage to leave the street.
Perhaps your paper could focus on how some street children abuse the
public and how they are abused by the public … and how they abuse each
other. Would you like to write about
market children? homeless children? Sexual and labor exploitation? begging? violence? addiction? hunger? neglect? etc. There is a lot to the subject of Street
Children. Scan other countries as well
as this one. Draw comparisons between
activity in adjacent countries and/or regions. Meanwhile, check out some of the Term-Paper resources
that are available on-line. Teachers Check out some of
the Resources
for Teachers attached to this website. *** ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2005 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor [PDF] www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2005/tda2005.pdf [accessed 28 November 2010] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Statistics on the number of working children under
the age of 15 in Education is free
and compulsory for children ages 6 to 14. Basic education includes primary
school for grades one through six, and Junior Secondary School for three
additional grade levels. Recent primary school attendance statistics are not
available for Kiribati. School quality and access to primary education are
still challenges, particularly in the outer islands. Human Rights
Reports » 2006 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2006/78776.htm [accessed 9 February 2020] CHILDREN
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Within its limited financial resources, the government made adequate expenditures
for child welfare. Primary education is compulsory, free, and universal for
children between the ages of six and 14 years. In practice the government did
not enforce primary school attendance. According to the Department of
Statistics, 93.5 percent of all school-age children attended primary school.
Boys and girls had similar attendance rates. The approximately 40 percent of
primary school graduates who pass a national examination qualify for three
additional years of subsidized junior secondary and four years of subsidized
senior secondary education; a small fee was charged to other students who
wished to matriculate at these levels. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 29 September 2006 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/kiribati2006.html [accessed 12 October
2012] [62] The Committee
is concerned at reports that a number of children are selling goods in the
street and are homeless. In view of the economic difficulties faced in
Kiribati, the Committee is concerned that there is no systematic,
comprehensive strategy to provide these children with adequate assistance. All
material used herein reproduced under the fair use exception of 17 USC § 107
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