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CAUTION: The following links
and accompanying text have been culled from the web to illuminate the
situation in the United Arab Emirates.
Some of these links may lead to websites that present allegations that
are unsubstantiated or even false. No attempt has been made to validate
their authenticity or to verify their content. 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. ***
FEATURED ARTICLE *** Child beggars
thrive on Muslim holy season in Gulf states Agence France-Presse AFP, DUBAI, Oct 12, 2007 afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hFh6zrO4h7AAb3jdLXcaQJTHbBWg [accessed 8 August
2011] www.middle-east-online.com/English/?id=22647 [accessed 12 January
2017] 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 *** 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 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61701.htm [accessed 30 March
2020] CHILDREN
-All
children received free health care and all citizen children also receive free
public education through the university level. Non-citizen resident children
were not permitted to enroll in public schools unless they lived in rural
areas that lacked private schools. Many foreign workers in private sector
employment received education allowances as part of their salary packages.
For those who did not receive the extra salary benefit, the government
provided an annual subsidy of approximately $1,600 (6,000 dirhams) per family
to its non-citizen employees for private school tuition. Education is
compulsory through the ninth grade. Citizen children are required to attend
gender-segregated schools through the sixth grade, the last grade of primary
education, when children can be as young as 10 or 11 years old. However,
compulsory education was not enforced, and some children did not attend
school. For the 2004-05 academic year, the Ministry of Education reported
student dropout rates as 9.9 percent of the 143,301 primary level students
(grades 1 to 5); 8.3 percent of the 148,563 middle school students (grades 6
to 9); and 9.3 percent of the 102,903 students at the secondary level (grades
10 to 12). Commission Continues General Debate On
Children's Rights UN Commission on
Human Rights, Press Release, 8 April 2005 www.unhchr.ch/huricane/huricane.nsf/0/1221AD184DFEDC4DC1256FDD00559D50?opendocument [accessed 8 August
2011] Adel Al Mahri (United Arab Emirates) said the United Arab
Emirates attached great importance to the rights of children and had done the
best for its children to ensure they lived in healthy conditions. It had
ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the ILO Convention
number 182. Care for children was a priority for the United Arab Emirates.
The Government had provided free education for children at all levels, and
had developed curricula for children at all levels. It had reduced the infant
mortality rate. Particular attention was given to children with special
needs, with centers for them ensuring they would be integrated in
society. Special laws had been set up
for juvenile delinquents, ensuring their rehabilitation. The interconnection
between care for children and advancement of women had been noted, and a
national mechanism had been set up to care for children and their mothers. Focus On Rehabilitation Of Child Camel
Jockeys UN Integrated
Regional Information Networks IRIN, Lahore, 23 Jun 2005 http://www.irinnews.org/report/28689/pakistan-focus-on-rehabilitation-of-child-camel-jockeys [accessed 10 March
2015] NEW
BAN IN THE GULF ON CHILD JOCKEYS - One hundred and seventy Pakistani
children handed over by camel-owners after the UAE imposed a new ban on camel
riding by children on 31 May, now reside at a rehabilitation camp set up by
the Prince of Abu Dhabi. It is run by the Karachi-based rights activist, Ansar Burney, who for years has been spearheading efforts
to bring the camel children home from the Gulf. Children With Psychiatric Disorders: The Al
Ain Community Psychiatric Survey Valsamma Eapen,
DPM, MRCPsych, PhD, Mona Essa Jakka,
MBBS, Mohammed T Abou-Saleh, FRCPsych,
PhD, The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, July 2003 ww1.cpa-apc.org:8080/Publications/Archives/CJP/2003/july/eapen.asp [accessed 8 August
2011] ww1.cpa-apc.org/publications/archives/cjp/2003/july/eapen.asp [accessed 12 January
2017] Although the
prevalence and symptomatology in this Middle East community are similar to
those in Western studies, none of these children had received professional
help, suggesting serious deficiencies in mental health care services in the
country. National Report of
the United Arab Emirates on the `Development of Education from
1993/1994-1995/1996 www.ibe.unesco.org/countries/countryDossier/natrep96/uarab96.pdf [Last access date
unavailable] unesdoc.unesco.org/Ulis/cgi-bin/ulis.pl?catno=172286&set=005857107B_3_191&gp=1&lin=1&ll=1 [accessed 12 January
2017] 11.
NON-FORMAL EDUCATION: Types of
institution, program and enrollments particularly concerning: (a) Literacy
courses (b) Courses for
"street children' and other disadvantaged children (c) Community
programs. Human Rights and Scourge Of Drugs, Drifting
Of Youth, Role Of Family As Stabilizing Force Among Issues Discussed At
Special Session UN Press Release
GA/9419, 9 June 1998 www.un.org/News/Press/docs/1998/19980609.ga9419.html [accessed 8 August
2011] The location of this
country has made it vulnerable to the scourge of drugs. Since drugs are so
prevalent among youth, the United Arab Emirates has taken many preventive
strategies. Specialized studies have shown the Government that organized
crime targets the poor and the unemployed to bring them into its ranks. The
United Arab Emirates, therefore, works hard to find employment for all of its people. All
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