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Prevalence, Abuse & Exploitation of Street Children In the first ten years of the 21st
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FEATURED ARTICLES *** YEMEN: New study
highlights plight of street children Ahmed (not his real name) has been
sleeping near a secondary school in the centre of Sanaa
city, "My father went to Ahmed is among an estimated 30,000
street children in Street children at increased risk of sexual abuse bbsnews.net/article.php/20070625143045203 This article has been archived by
World Street Children News and may possibly still be accessible [here] INCREASED NUMBER OF STREET CHILDREN - "If they have been on the
street for a long time, the chances of them being sexually
abused is around 90 percent," Shugaa
said. According to reports, boys as young as eight have been lured into
the cars of strangers for as little as US$1, while others are sexually abused
by older boys living rough on the street - a dire reminder of the vicious
circle of abuse found throughout the world involving street children. Yet the boys, generally brought
into the center by police or the center's own outreach programme,
rarely divulge the abuse they have suffered. "I never did those
kinds of bad things, but I know others who have," one 13-year-old boy at
the center whispered, glancing away from the peering eyes of other boys.
"When you are hungry you do what you have to do," he said, adding
he knew of several occasions when a boy would be brought to a man's home for
a few days and routinely abused, before being let go. "Yes, there are some bad boys
doing bad things," said another child at the centre who did not know his
own age and who had been left on the streets by his mother to fend for
himself after the death of his father in 1995. ***
ARCHIVES *** UNICEF - The
Big Picture U.S. Dept
of Labor Bureau of International Labor Affairs INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Children also work as street vendors, beggars, domestic servants,
and in the fishing, leather, construction, and automobile repair sectors. CURRENT GOVERNMENT
POLICIES AND PROGRAMS TO ELIMINATE THE WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR - In collaboration with the Mayor of Sana’a, ILO-IPEC
began providing remedial education and vocational training in 2003 in a
rehabilitation center for street children who are victims of child labor. Bur of Democracy,
Human Rights & Labor - Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 CHILDREN - Child labor was a problem. The
Child Rights Law prohibits child labor; however, the law has not been
implemented, and children as young as four years of age worked in workshops,
agriculture, or as street vendors. SECTION 6 WORKER RIGHTS – [d] The Child Rights Law
prohibits child labor; however, it has not been effectively implemented. The established minimum age for employment was 15 years in
the private sector and 18 years in the public sector. By special permit,
children between the ages of 12 and 15 years could work. The government
rarely enforced these provisions, especially in rural and remote areas. The
government also did not enforce laws requiring nine years of compulsory
education for children. Child labor was common, especially in rural areas. Many
children were required to work in subsistence farming due to family poverty.
Even in urban areas, children worked in stores and workshops, sold goods and
begged on the streets. Many children of school age worked instead of
attending school, particularly in areas in which schools were not easily
accessible. The Child Labor Unit at the Ministry of Labor was
responsible for implementing and enforcing child labor laws and regulations;
however, the unit's lack of resources hampered enforcement. The Ministry of Labor estimated that there were close to
half a million working children, ages 6 to 14 years, and that working
children equaled 10 to 15 percent of the total work force. The government was
an active partner with the ILO's International
Program to Eliminate Child Labor. During the year, this program offered
remedial education, vocational training, counseling, and reintegration of
child laborers into schools. In September 2004 the government entered into a
grant agreement with a foreign government aimed at combating the worst forms
of child labor in the country Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - 2005 [70] The Committee is deeply
concerned at the information that many children are trafficked to [72] While welcoming the Program
and Rehabilitation of Street children and the construction of the safe
Childhood Centre, in the capital municipality also extended to the
governorate of Aden, the Committee expresses its concern at the increasing
number of street children and the vulnerability of these children to sexual
abuse and exploitation and at the lack of a systematic and comprehensive
strategy to address the situation and protect these children. State of
children in Yemen deteriorates, Children’s Parliament www.yobserver.com/culture-and-society/10015711.html
For his part, the Director of the
Democratic School Jamal al-Shami said the situation
of children in SITUATION
OF THE CHILDREN OF SOMALI REFUGEES - The situation of Somali refugees is particularly bad in
the Haraz Camp. The camp is overcrowded, there are
no primary or secondary schools, there are not enough books, and newborns are
not registered. Bad
Economic Policies Blamed for Children Drop out www.yemenpost.net/59/LocalNews/20083.htm
Improper economic policies is to
be blamed for children’s daily struggle for survival that often sees them
ending up as drug addicts, drug dealers or even as sex slaves in the case of
girls according to a study. The study, conducted by the Supreme Council
for Motherhood and Children (SCMC), in cooperation with the Arab Council for
Children and Development also mentions that poverty, job loss, high fertility
rates, lack of social services, and lack of support for the poor by the
government contributed to the crisis of street children. The study also found that street
children are affected by a number of diseases like diarrhea, malaria,
backache, constant dizziness, chronic chest inflammations, ophthalmic,
hepatitis and tonsillitis. Government
study shows 30000 children working in 8 Yemeni provinces www.sabanews.net/en/news161633.htm According to the study, prepared
by the Supreme Council for Motherhood and Childhood in cooperation with the
Arab Council for Childhood and Development, the majority of street children
are aged between 6 -14 years and the rate of male children reached 70 per
cent. The study mentioned that the
street children work as street vendors, cars washers, cleaners and beggars in
addition to working in markets, restaurants, laundries and furnaces. According to the study, diseases affecting
the street children included malaria, diarrhea, various infections, diabetes,
anemia, pains of spinal and back, liver and skin diseases and headaches and
stomach pains. YEMEN: New study
highlights plight of street children Ahmed (not his real name) has been
sleeping near a secondary school in the centre of Sanaa
city, "My father went to Ahmed is among an estimated 30,000
street children in Fears over possibly rising number of child labourers bbsnews.net/article.php/20070904104112201 At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
"The situation [in the
country] is miserable. Child labour is on the rise
due to the deteriorated economic situation of most families," Jamal al-Shami, chairman of Child labour
has also increased the school dropout rate. "There are about two million
children out of school," al-Shami said, adding
that most of them will end up illiterate. Street children at increased risk of sexual abuse bbsnews.net/article.php/20070625143045203 This article has been archived by
World Street Children News and may possibly still be accessible [here] INCREASED NUMBER OF STREET CHILDREN - "If they have been on the
street for a long time, the chances of them being sexually
abused is around 90 percent," Shugaa
said. According to reports, boys as
young as eight have been lured into the cars of strangers for as little as
US$1, while others are sexually abused by older boys living rough on the
street - a dire reminder of the vicious circle of abuse found throughout the
world involving street children. Yet the boys, generally brought
into the center by police or the center's own outreach programme,
rarely divulge the abuse they have suffered.
"I never did those kinds of bad things, but I know others who
have," one 13-year-old boy at the center whispered, glancing away from
the peering eyes of other boys. "When you are hungry you do what you
have to do," he said, adding he knew of several occasions when a boy
would be brought to a man's home for a few days and routinely abused, before
being let go. "Yes, there are some bad boys
doing bad things," said another child at the centre who did not know his
own age and who had been left on the streets by his mother to fend for
himself after the death of his father in 1995. Street children yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=1040&p=report&a=4 This article has been archived by
World Street Children News and may possibly still be accessible [here] Thus, the streets become the sole
place for such children where they spend both their working hours and their
resting times. Lying on cartons with only the sky as their roof, “Poverty, want and extremely low
income are the main reasons for the phenomenon,” agrees Hassan
Al-Odaini, a child street vendor who sells kitchen
equipment in Mukalla’s women’s market, “What causes
a father send his child to such a faraway city to work are dire
circumstances, poverty and low income.” He also mentioned blackmail
practiced against street children by their bosses. “They quite often deduct
sums from our salary without any apparent reason, except that we are
children,” Ali lamented, “They don’t consider our hard living conditions,
together with our families; rather, they treat us as if they have neither
families nor children of their own.” Working
toward a better future for Yemeni children According to poverty surveys in
1999, the number of al-Akhdam children, perhaps the
poorest and most disadvantaged in The illiteracy rate of this group
is about 50 percent, while the ones who can read and write are just 33
percent. The young females in this age group have the lowest enrollment
in secondary education and universities, about 16.3 percent, compared with
40.8 percent of the young males. Of all female workers, between15 to 24
years old, only 14 percent of them go to schools, compared with 59 percent of
male workers. The small number of teachers in schools is another reason
for the deterioration of education in this age group. A
study of street children in Yemen About 5,000 children are forced to
live on the streets in four Yemeni governorates, according to the results of
the first stage of a new comprehensive survey of street children. Stray animals are the most abused and unwanted in Yemen yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=989&p=health&a=1 You said in your
proposal that this project will provide beggars and street children with
opportunities to work in the shelter, but you don’t give any details of how
that can be applied? Do contact with any street children organizations in
this regard? Our project, if it can
pull all its resources together, hopes to work with YERO, a street children
organization. Its initiator has already agreed to coordinate with our project
so we can both benefit from each other. Yemeni
children narrate their sufferings on the street www.crin.org/resources/infoDetail.asp?ID=11679&flag=news yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=982&p=report&a=3 They shoulder the
responsibility for others before themselves. Such is their fate and their
family circumstances, whether social or economic. They must spend long hours
on the streets under the sun’s blazing heat. What they receive from their
work is nothing as compared to the exploitation of their childhood, which is
subject to various sorts of violence. Factors affecting yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=976&p=report&a=2 This article has been archived by
World Street Children News and may possibly still be accessible [here] Aged between 6 and 18,
Street children can be categorized according to their type of work, the time
of day they work and their living situation.
Most children working or begging part of the day or night
are enrolled in school. They study in the morning and work or beg at
night, returning home to spend the night with their family. Children who work during the day usually
are school dropouts or those who didn’t attend school at all. Most are from
rural areas and live away from their family. They either come to cities with
relatives or alone and spend the night in inns or living in groups in
apartments. Yemeni street children work in the
following professions: Street vendors selling clothes, home appliances
and other commodities on streets and at traffic lights/intersections;
Car washers in street intersections and car parks; Porters carrying
commodities on their shoulders or on carts working in general open markets
and fruit and vegetable markets; Workers in restaurants and cafés;
Fare collectors on buses. Government is losing street children yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=974&p=local&a=2 At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
The number of street children in
Sana'a governorate, according to a previous study conducted by MSAL, there
were 15,000 children on the streets. In the mean time, this phenomenon is on
increase due to the spread of poverty and more drop-outs from school. Women complain of the rise of street harassment Another girl blamed poverty and
social fragmentation- “They have no goals, no jobs, and too much free time”
she said. “Poverty is part of the problem because it means there are a lot of
street children, and they soon learn how to bother girls on the street.” The economic and social situation of street children: A
study yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=959&p=report&a=2 This article has been archived by World
Street Children News and may possibly still be accessible [here] Most street children stated that a
large part of their income contributes to their families’ needs. It’s
indicated that 92.9 percent of children whose families live in Sana’a city
assist their families financially; whereas 85 percent of children whose
families live outside Sana’a assist their families financially. Some fathers believe the street
children phenomenon isn’t caused by family problems, but rather by poverty.
During a focus group discussion, one father explained, “I was married to four
wives. We had no problems, although each wife gave birth to a child per year.
After my economic situation worsened, I divorced three of them. Now I don’t
know where my kids are. I only have the kids from the fourth wife and they
dropped out of school. They work and beg and the reason is poverty.” Leprosy, sexual and skin diseases yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=956&p=health&a=1 At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
MORE SUSCEPTIBLE TO
DISEASE -
Due to the absence of
personal cleanliness and prevailing unsanitary conditions, most street
children suffer scabies, chicken pox, measles and other infectious illnesses
transmitted by direct and indirect contact, according to Kashnoon.
“These children also are subjected to respiratory diseases like sore throat,
pneumonia, bronchitis and tonsillitis, which may lead to meningitis,” he
confirmed. Information
about Street Children - www.streetchildren.org.uk/reports/Yemen%20Child.doc At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
The phenomenon of street children
in www.ecpat.net/eng/ecpat_inter/Country/ChildProstitution/Yemen.html Available information indicates
that 30,000 street children in www.yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=682&p=local&a=2 At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
More than 30.000
children are living as vagrants in the streets of Juveniles Between The Reality And
Ambition www.yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=652&p=report&a=1 At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
PAINFUL SCENES - Gamil
Massoud al-Wasabi,
12-year-old, loiters bare-footed in Committee On Rights Of Child Concludes Review Of Yemeni
Report On Measures To Implement Convention www.unhchr.ch/huricane/huricane.nsf/0/3EE651AA85CB04D8802567050036AA8A?opendocument At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
DISCUSSION - Concerning street children and
beggars, the delegation said that the problem of poverty had increased the
rate of street children and those making a living through begging. The Government had taken steps to combat
the phenomenon of street children, particularly child beggars. The authorities were also undertaking a
study of the situation in order to find alternative means to keep away
children from the streets. Rude awakening 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 www.yobserver.com/cgi-bin/yobserver/exec/view.cgi/1/3667 At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] 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 All material used herein
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