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Prevalence, Abuse & Exploitation of Street Children State of Kuwait [ Country-by-Country
Reports ] The State of Kuwait [map], an independent sheikhdom,
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Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 CHILDREN - The government is generally
committed to the rights and welfare of citizen children for whom education is
free through the university level. Primary and secondary education are
compulsory and universal. The Ministry of Planning estimated primary
enrollment at 87 percent for the 2004-05 academic year. In the 2003-04 school
year, 57 percent of children completed secondary school. Both boys and girls
had equal access to the same quality of education. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - 1998 [25] The Committee is concerned at
the recent increase in the number of children living and/or working on the
streets, especially children of the Bedoon community. It recommends that all
appropriate measures be taken to provide access to school to all children and
prevent and combat school dropout. It also recommends the development of
vocational training projects, as well as of adequate social programs. Child
beggars thrive on Muslim holy season in Gulf states According to a study by the Imam
Mohammad bin Saud Islamic University in Riyadh
published in the Saudi daily Okaz, more than 80,000
"street children" can be found at any one time in the six oil-rich
Gulf Arab monarchies -- Bahrain, Kuwait,
Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Committee
On Rights Of Child Continues Consideration Of Report Of Kuwait Committee members raised further questions
on street children and beggary; prison conditions for juvenile
delinquents; rehabilitation of juvenile offenders; prohibition of child
labor; protection of children from violent electronic media; landmines; and
traditional practices prejudicial to children, among other things. In response to the additional questions,
the delegation said that there was no practice of beggary in Street
Children--Long-time NEF Concern - Major
New Arab Initiative REFUGEE, IMMIGRANT, AND STATELESS CHILDREN - Children of longtime Bidun residents of Kuwait faced similar discrimination because their parents were considered stateless or otherwise unable to pass on their nationality under Kuwaiti law. Termed "illegal residents" despite their families' residence in Kuwait for decades, even generations, Bidun children were frequently denied birth certificates and other official documents needed to attend public and private schools or receive medical treatment. More than 100,000 long-term
residents of THIRD COMMITTEE - 4 - PRESS RELEASE - Mansour Al-Omar (Kuwait) said the laws of his country protected children and provided for their care and he enumerated a number of national initiatives that had improved children's quality of life, such as the building of nurseries and kindergartens, health and immunization programs and mother- child programs. Also, education was gratis and compulsory through the intermediate level. However, he added, the children of Kuwait had suffered from the Iraqi occupation. They had been vulnerable and unable to tolerate the brutality of the occupiers. His Government was taking steps to help those children. All material used herein
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