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in Bur of Democracy, Human Rights & Labor - Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 CHILDREN - Education is universal and
mandatory until age 18, and public schools are free. According to the UN
Children's Fund (UNICEF), 98 percent of school-age children attended school.
Most students continued their studies to the postsecondary level. Concluding
Observations Of The Committee On The Rights Of The Child (CRC) - 2002 [27] The Committee notes with
concern that the principle of non-discrimination is not adequately
implemented with respect to certain vulnerable groups of children, including
children of the Roma and other ethnic minorities, children living in
institutions, children with disabilities, children of poor families and
children with HIV/AIDS. In particular, the Committee is concerned about their
limited access to adequate health, education and other social services and
about reports of racially motivated violence in which police have failed to
protect the victims. [36] The Committee is concerned at
the large number of children in the State party living in institutions, a
significant proportion of whom are
"social" rather than natural orphans. [52] The Committee is concerned
that, despite pilot programs aimed at improving the situation of the Roma in
certain provinces, they still suffer from widespread discrimination which has
in some instances impeded Romani children's right to education, health and
social welfare. ROPE - Relief for Oppressed People Everywhere Despite its recent successes, 17%
of Poland 38 million people live below the poverty line. Much of this is due
to high unemployment levels, only helped by large scale emigration of the
young workforce to Western Europe. We give essential aid to widows
and refugees, provide regular financial support for orphans and street
children, and rescue girls in danger of prostitution. [2006 website posting] Country
Information Poland - CIVLIZATION AND CULTURE STATE AND
SOCIETY - Children
also suffer under domestic violence and neglect. One effect of this is the
large number of street children. Volatile
Substance Abuse Among Young People In Poland 10.3 SPECIAL GROUPS - There are a number of groups
that are likely to be more at risk of drug and volatile substance use than
others. These include children in difficult family circumstances, children
whose parents misuse alcohol or drugs, 'street children' and - possibly - members
of minority groups such as Roma. It is also important that groups who may be
thought unlikely to misuse drug or volatile substances are not neglected, for
even among such groups there is likely to be some substance misuse. For
example, among rural and small town folk or among more 'middle-class' young
people. I attempted to find examples of work with street children, but there
did not appear to be any projects that focused on this group. I met with a representative of the
refugee council, Polska Akcja
Humanitarna, who said that there was not a problem
of volatile substance misuse among the refugees she dealt with. In many
people's minds, the problem of street children in Poland is associated with
refugees and immigrants from poorer countries of Central and Eastern Europe.
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