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Prevalence, Abuse & Exploitation of Street Children In the
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** 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. ***
ARCHIVES *** UNICEF - The
Big Picture Bur of Democracy,
Human Rights & Labor - Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 CHILDREN - Abuse of children was a problem,
although it was difficult to gauge the prevalence of child abuse, since the
government kept no national statistics on such cases. Although in general the
culture greatly prizes children, studies by citizen female doctors indicated
that severe abuse and neglect of children appeared to be more widespread than
previously reported. At least two NGOs, one in In 2003, the MOI's center for
crime prevention and research reported that 21 percent of male children
suffered from some form of abuse. The report stated that 34 percent of the abused
suffered from some sort of psychological abuse, and 25 percent suffered
physical abuse. The figures excluded female children and accusations of
sexual abuse, as the ministry stated that the issues were too sensitive for
public discussion. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - 2001 [7] The Committee is concerned
that the broad and imprecise nature of the State party's general reservation
potentially negates many of the Convention's provisions and raises concern as
to its compatibility with the object and purpose of the Convention, as well
as the overall implementation of the Convention. Street
life hits the most vulnerable www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentID=2008101719396
A recently published study from
the research center at Although a relatively recent
phenomenon in the Kingdom, the presence of children living and working on the
street has increased noticeably with the huge influx of illegally smuggled
children from Asia and Africa, mostly through the southern border with
Yemen. Neglected by families, often
deployed by gangs, organized groups of children aged between 6 and 15 group
and train before being let loose to roam the streets and earn a crust through
anything from pickpocketing to armed robbery. Away from the battlefield, the gang leaders
give orders from dilapidated houses in the most rundown neighborhoods in
town. For months boys are manipulated
and trained before they head for the street for illegal beggary, and
sometimes violence, to fatten the bank account of their master, and sometimes
even the biological father. The remit
of such a child may include daily begging with no days off, distributing
contraband material, and robbing shops, with some possible drug use to numb
the pain and deal with the hardships of street life. Jeddah is recorded as
the most popular place for children to beg in, followed by Makkah and Riyadh.
Street children under 20 years old also commonly fall victim to sexual
abuse and exploitation, says Mani Al-Dajani, a sociologist at Imam University, in his recent
research. 38,000
‘street’ children in Kingdom, says study www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentID=2008101018802
There are nearly 38,000 children
on the Kingdom’s streets, according to a recent study published in the
Security Research Journal. Some 68
percent of these children are foreign vendors and beggars. Most of these were
found to have entered the Kingdom on Umrah or Haj visa but never left Makkah. The study found that the families of these
children could not afford their education, compelling them to drop out of
school and have a second home in the street.
The study found that living on the street would lead them to child
labor, beggary, crime, and drug addiction. 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. 83,000
homeless children roam Saudi streets - study Around 83,000 homeless children
are roaming the streets of Saudi Arabia, according to a recently released
study. The children are believed to
have been brought from neighbouring countries to
work as camel jockeys and later were used for selling low-priced goods,
according to Dr Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz Al Yousuf, associate professor of sociology at the
Riyadh-based Imam Mohammad Bin Saud Islamic
University. Rude awakening www.yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=738&p=culture&a=1 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] UNICEF discovered child
trafficking in Parents, children complicit in human trafficking - Report www.yobserver.com/cgi-bin/yobserver/exec/view.cgi/1/3667 The report found that most
children started the journey accompanied by a direct relation, although some
children traveled with other children instead. According to the study, just over 50% fell
within the age range 13-16 years old, and of the 59 cases, only two were
girls. On arrival in Improving Living Environments
for the Low-Income Households NARRATIVE - For the urban poor, mainly the
low-income people, the government launched a serviced land plots program
aimed at providing them free land plots so that they could build their own
dwellings with interest-free loans from the Real Estate Development
Fund. In Illegal EXPATS remain on streets despite order saudielection.com/en/news_body.php?id=250&PHPSESSID=5687715965a7d6ceef636969fe111212 Many of the homeless arrived in
Saudi Arabia under Umrah or Haj
visas and remained to seek out a living on the streets. The homeless often sleep in makeshift
shelters and wait for daily food to be delivered by charities. Many have
lived in the district for about one year after failing to use their round
trip airline tickets in a timely manner. Conference May Break Taboo On Sexual Abuse In Arab Countries www.amanjordan.org/english/daily_news/wmview.php?ArtID=10 At one time this article had been
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