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Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 CHILDREN - There were thousands of children
living on the streets of Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - 2004 [56] The Committee welcomes the
State party’s efforts to rehabilitate the educational system that was
massively destructed by the civil war. It further takes note of the “Back to
School” program that has already brought many children back to school.
However, the Committee is concerned about the continuing low rates of
enrolment, the significant disparities of enrolment and literacy rates
between boys and girls and the overall low quality and hidden costs of
education. ‘Put
Street Children Back in the Classroom,’ CWI Boss
Urges Mr. Teah
disclosed that the (CWI), which is located in New Kru Town, Bushrod Island, was
established in 2003 as a tuition-free school to help street children get back
in school noting that they have been unfortunate to acquire education because
of the exorbitant fees charged by other schools. He said children should not be denied
education because it is their right to be educated. According to Mr. Teah, the institute’s program are sometime interrupted
because the building was also being used for worship purposes and there was
no where to accommodate the children who are eager to learn. Liberian youths are packing
Liberia’s public primary schools under a free, compulsory education programme, but the country’s beleaguered, post-war school
system can barely keep up with desks, books and other supplies. At the cost
of about US $5, children purchased and then brought their desks with them
when they enrolled at SIMS. The government of
President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf aims to
dramatically increase the country’s enrollment rate through the Education for
All law that was enacted in 2004. "The enforcement is getting
the results we want. Children are now coming from the farms, off the street
and into the classrooms," Sirleaf recently
told reporters. The
plight of Liberia’s street children CATEGORIES
OF STREET CHILDREN IN LIBERIA - The second category of street children is the children that live in
the streets. This category comprise of those who live in the streets. They do
some contracts of fetching water or washing dishes and carrying short
distance loads for people, most of them are mentally compared to steal and
are involved in other forms of hustle. They sleep in unfinished buildings,
market stalls, old & abandon cars, soccer pitches and just any available
places they can find regardless of it safety. They are largely
self-supervised. CAUSES OF
STREET CHILDREN - The
negative impact of street life on children is enormous. Many street children
lack basic rights such as education, family love, health care, good food
& safety. Other disadvantages include exposure to drugs, the risk of
being knocked down by uninsured cars, harsh punishment for little offences,
the early arrival of adulthood, association with the wrong people &
criminals and lost of family ties. Another big problem is exploitation.
Street children are most time exploited by adults who hire them to work for
wages payable at the end of the month but often the contracts are terminated
even before the end of the month without good reason and the children remain
unpaid. Information
about Street Children - Liberia [DOC] Street children allegedly face
more attacks and abuses from law enforcers than they face from
civilians. As such, protection/
advocacy groups must be determined to engage law enforcers in a dialogue to
try and establish a working relationship.
Street children (with strong survival skills) are vulnerable to
recruitment by drug dealers and armed forces. Many street children from Liberia
has just come out of a civil war that lasted 14 years The resulting cross-border movement
has led to family disintegration and the separation of children from their
families. A survey of street children
in Stop the use of child soldiers THE USE OF CHILD SOLDIERS IN CÔTE D’IVOIRE - The phenomenon of child soldiers in Côte d’Ivoire is clearly linked to non-resolved issues in Liberia. It is the result of previous failures to properly demobilize. In Liberia, only 4,300 child soldiers were demobilized. With the end of the war in Liberia, former child soldiers often became street children that the civilian population would continue to fear. Liberia Humanitarian Situation Update No. 107 B. COORDINATION - TASKFORCE ON STREET CHILDREN RECONVENES ACTIVITIES - There are a small but growing number of children who are being committed to the Monrovia Central Prison. The prison currently does not have separate facilities for children. Concluding
Observations Report by Committee on Rights of the Child (CRC) – 2004 66. The Committee is concerned
about the extent of the problem of sexual exploitation of and trafficking in
children in the State party and notes that internally displaced and street
children are particularly vulnerable to such abuse. Don Bosco Homes And Street Children Don Bosco
Homes in Address
to the Security Council meeting on Children in Armed Conflict Today as I speak, the children of
Liberia are suffering again from war. We don't have good education because of
war. We are malnourished because of war. There are many reports that children
are being recruited. We are dying because of war. Protection of children affected by armed conflict 51. The categories of children
identified as having special protection needs include ex-combatant youth,
refugee and internally displaced children, sexually abused girls and
unaccompanied and street children. The following were identified as the key
challenges requiring initiatives: (a) Empowering families,
economically and socially, to resume their roles in bringing up and supporting
children, thus moving away from a policy of heavy dependence on institutional
care. At present, many unaccompanied, displaced and orphaned children are
resident either on the streets or in orphanages, many of which are of dubious
quality. All material used herein
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