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and accompanying text have been culled from the web to illuminate the
situation in the HOW TO USE THIS WEBPAGE Students If you are looking
for material to use in a term-paper, you are advised to scan the postings on this
page and others to see which aspect(s) of street life are of particular
interest to you. You might be
interested in exploring how children got there, how they survive, and how
some manage to leave the street.
Perhaps your paper could focus on how some street children abuse the
public and how they are abused by the public … and how they abuse each
other. Would you like to write about
market children? homeless children? Sexual and labor exploitation? begging? violence? addiction? hunger? neglect? etc. There is a lot to the subject of Street
Children. Scan other countries as well
as this one. Draw comparisons between
activity in adjacent countries and/or regions. Meanwhile, check out some of the Term-Paper resources
that are available on-line. Teachers Check out some of
the Resources
for Teachers attached to this website. *** ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2003 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2003/slovak-republic.htm [accessed 22
December 2010] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Although official statistics are unavailable, it is
believed that fewer Roma than Slovak children attend primary school. Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61674.htm [accessed 11
February 2020] CHILDREN
- The government
was committed to children's rights and welfare and the Ministries of Labor
and Education oversaw implementation of the government's programs for
children. Education was universal and free through the postsecondary level
and was compulsory for 10 years, or until the age of 16. The UN Children's
Fund (UNICEF) reported that the primary school attendance rate was
approximately 85 percent. Most ethnic Slovak
and Hungarian children attended school on a regular basis, but Romani
children exhibited a lower attendance rate. Although Romani children
comprised nearly one‑fourth of the total number of children under 16,
they were disproportionately enrolled in schools for the mentally
handicapped, despite diagnostic scores that were often within the normal
range of intellectual capacity. In certain remedial schools in the eastern
part of the country, registered students were nearly 100 percent Roma. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 6 October 2000 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/slovakia2000.html [accessed 22
December 2010] [43] The Committee
refers to the dialogue with the State party and notes that the social
policies of the State party, in spite of their comprehensiveness, have
resulted in the socio-economic exclusion of certain groups of children such
as the Roma and children living in the streets and in institutions. US Department of
State, Bureau of Consular Affairs travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_1019.html [accessed 19 July
2011] [scroll down] CRIME: The Reports by States Committee on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights CESCR, 29th session, olddoc.ishr.ch/hrm/tmb/treaty/cescr/reports/cescr_earlier/CESCR_29.htm [accessed 19 July
2011] [scroll down] All
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