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Prevalence, Abuse & Exploitation of Street Children

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Macau (Macao) Macau's economy has enjoyed strong growth in recent years on the back of its expanding tourism and gaming sectors. The expanding casino sector, and China's decision beginning in 2002 to relax travel restrictions, reenergized Macau's tourism industry. This city of just over 500,000 hosted more than 30 million visitors in 2008. Almost 60% of these came from mainland China, despite increasing restrictions on travel to the SAR. Macau's traditional manufacturing industry has been in a slow decline since the termination of the Multi-Fiber Agreement in 2005. In 2008, exports of textiles and garments generated only $1.1 billion, compared to $13.7 billion in gross gaming receipts. [The World Factbook, U.S.C.I.A. 2009]

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Human Rights Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices

U.S. Dept of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, March 8, 2006

www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61605.htm

[accessed 19 February 2011]

CHILDREN - School attendance is compulsory for all children between ages 5 and 15. Basic education was provided in government-run schools and subsidized private schools, and it covered the preprimary year, primary education, and general secondary school education. The Education Department provided assistance to families that could not pay school fees. The children of illegal immigrants were excluded from the educational system. Experts believed this exclusion affected only a few children.

Committee On Economic, Social And Cultural Rights (CESCR) - Summary Record Of The 33rd Meeting

Committee On Economic, Social And Cultural Rights (CESCR), Fifteenth session, Geneva, 21 November 1996

www.bayefsky.com/summary/portugal_cescr_e_c.12_1996_sr.331996.php

[accessed 16 June 2011]

[22] ... Referring to the situation of children entering the Territory from mainland China, he admitted that there were indeed many such children, some traveling with families which had obtained prior authorization, and some entering illegally. Macau had in the past allowed for the regularization of the status of such immigrants wishing to rejoin legally settled families.

[48] In all, 50 people were registered as homeless. That was a sensitive issue, since they refused to be housed, preferring to remain homeless.

[67] ... The Government provided subsidies for children without means who attended private schools. School places were available for all children.

The Dark Side of Casino Lights

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Bolor said she hopes the government will take measures against prostitution and to protect girls who live on the street.  She said that street girls as young as 14 and 15 years-old are often trafficked to Macao, Singapore and Malaysia.

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Human Trafficking in [Macau] [other countries]
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