A compilation of extracts from ngo reports to the Committee on the Rights of the Child relating to violence against children This document is an annex to the publication
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HAITIThe Caribbean CRC Session 32, January 2003 Coalition Haïtienne pour la Défense des Droits de l'Enfant – French http://www.crin.org/docs/resources/treaties/crc.32/Haiti_ngo_report.pdf Population 48.33% de moins de 18 ans […]
. Les mineurs sont arrêtés par la police, amenés en garde à vue déjà peuplée d’adultes et laissés en détention préventive administrative au-delà du terme de 48 heures prévu par l’article 26 de la Constitution87. Postérieurement, une autorité judiciaire saisie du dossier peut prendre la décision d’envoyer l’enfant en prison et celui-ci peut y rester des mois, voire des années, avant d’être traduit en justice. […]
½ million d ‘enfants sont exclus du système éducatif. […]
L’exclusion dont souffrent les enfants handicapés témoigne de l’oubli des pouvoirs publics et de la société haïtienne en général pour cette catégorie d’enfants. […]
Certaines informations extraites de textes ou d’observations recueillies sur le terrain relatent : Le faible nombre d’enseignantes dans le primaire (33% en 1996-1997) surtout dans les derniers niveaux de cycles et au secondaire. D’où, l’absence de modèles positifs pour les filles Les cas d’abus et de harcèlement sexuel à l’égard des fillettes et adolescentes, La pratique d’exclusion des adolescentes enceintes et l’absence de services adaptés à leur condition L’absence de pratiques incitatives pour la poursuite des études dans les secteurs non-traditionnels et à des niveaux supérieurs d’enseignement (30% à l’Université). […] Recommandations : Le MENJS, par le biais de la CONEF devrait : Articuler des éléments de politique qui aident à l’intégration de genre dans les plans pour l’expansion de l’éducation fondamentale, secondaire et permanente dans le pays; Prendre des mesures de protection pour assurer l’éducation effective des filles en situation difficile; Mettre en place un service d’appui contre la violence à l’égard des fillettes et des adolescentes; Inciter la société civile à promouvoir l’équité de genre par le biais principalement des syndicats d’enseignants, des organisations de femmes. […] Dans les villes de province et dans les localités les plus reculées, les jeunes doivent se débattre le plus souvent avec des animaux pour partager une parcelle de terrain afin d’organiser des activités sportives. […]
Depuis 1991, le nombre des enfants de la rue a triplé en Haïti88. Les causes provoquant ce phénomène sont multiples, ainsi plusieurs garçons et filles de la rue sont des enfants en domesticité qui ne pouvaient plus supporter la domesticité ou encore la violence familiale ou qui deviennent orphelins (entre autres les orphelins du sida) viennent grossir la masse des enfants de la rue et des jeunes prostituées. Une grande partie, sinon la majorité, des enfants de la rue proviennent du milieu rural qui convergent vers la ville avec l’espoir de meilleurs lendemains. Dans le rapport du Gouvernement Haïtien sur l’application de la Convention, le nombre grandissant des enfants est mentionné, mais les causes qui sont les facteurs essentiels ne sont pas soulevées. Or, comme cité dans le rapport du FNUAP de 2000, « Beaucoup d’Haïtiens quittent la campagne pour chercher un futur meilleur dans les villes, surtout la capitale. Peu de données officielles documentent cette migration interne. Cependant, la croissance rapide des bidonvilles laisse entendre que l’urbanisation du pays se fait rapidement et anarchiquement. »89 […]
Les enfants de la rue sont maltraités par les forces de l’ordre, exploités par les chefs de gangs. […]
, Il est évalué que près de 250 000 garçons et filles seraient placé-e-s en domesticité en Haïti, soit 14% de la population infantile haïtienne. […]
La domesticité est perçue comme étant en Haïti la pire forme du travail des enfants […]
La drogue, par exemple, est consommée dans toutes les couches sociales et sous toutes les formes. Les plus à risques sont les enfants défavorisés qui aussi n’ont pas accès nécessairement à des services de soutien. […]
. Le phénomène de corruption engendré par ce trafic touche directement les enfants et les jeunes. […] La violence et l’exploitation sexuelle des enfants existent mais à l’heure actuelle il n’existe pas de données statistiques fiables sur le phénomène. Quelques études réalisés par des ONG ont dénoncé le problème. Elles se pratiquent à tous les niveaux, surtout sur les groupes vulnérables (les filles et garçons en domesticité, les enfants handicapés, les garçons et les filles de la rue, les fillettes des milieux ruraux) et quelques fois au sein même de la famille (tous les hommes). […] Les enfants Haïtiens en situation difficile sont les plus exposés à ces genres de trafics très souvent cachés sous des vocables « orphelinats », « adoption », « placement ». HOLY SEEEurope & Central Asia No report available on the CRIN. HONDURASAmericas CRC Session 21, 17 May - 4 June 1999 Red de Instituciones por los derechos de la niñez Spanis No report available on the CRIN (document not found)
Europe and Central AsiaCRC Session 18, 18 May - 5 June 1998 Human Rights Watch – English www.crin.org/docs/resources/treaties/crc.18/Hungary_NGO_Report.pdf […]The most immediate and dramatic threat to Roma comes from attacks and harassment by racist hate groups. In the meantime, less visible patterns of endemic discrimination and increasing social marginalization pose an equally serious danger for Hungary's largest minority. Roma (Gypsy) children in Hungary suffer from unremitting discrimination in schools and in the general community. Barely half of all Roma finish primary school; a large percentage of those have received most of their education in segregated "remedial" classes and schools in which very few Hungarian children are placed. Roma children are already at a disadvantage when they enter school because of their poverty, their parents' lack of education, and direct prejudice. Most Hungarian teachers do not expect Roma children to perform well and shunt them off to special schools that provide them with inferior education. Only a handful of Roma students graduate from, or even attend, academic high schools. Most urban Roma children live in ghettoized slums, or in the worst housing projects; in the countryside, they live on "Gypsy rows," or increasingly, in separate, all-Roma villages. Many public establishments exclude Roma, often quite openly. Moreover, Roma in Hungary are often the targets of violence carried out by "skinheads" and other extremist groups. Many have been the victims of serious attacks, often with the acquiescence of police and sometimes with their active involvement. […]
Roma are frequently victims of community violence: many are routinely subjected to harassment and intimidation by skinheads and other extremist elements of society; many have been subjected to physical attack, or to the threat of physical attack. After peaking in 1991, skinhead attacks on Roma and other minorities declined; in the spring of 1995, however, local human rights monitoring groups reported a sudden jump in the number of attacks, perhaps signaling a renewed campaign of anti-Roma violence. Many of the attacks in recent years have involved not only the acquiescence of local police, but even their active involvement. The national government has consistently denied the existence of racial violence in the country. […]
"Educate them? We ought to shoot them." - Hungarian man from Nagykanizsa, giving his opinion on plans to open a private high school for Roma students.Lack of access to education continues to be one the greatest barriers separating Roma from the larger Hungarian society. Almost no Roma complete high school or university; more than half effectively drop out of the school system before completing eighth grade. Throughout the country, Roma leaders and parents interviewed by Human Rights Watch/Helsinki cited improvement in the educational possibilities for Roma youth as one of their most pressing concerns. Where Roma do attend school, they do not receive the same educational opportunities as Hungarians. Roma children are frequently isolated in segregated classes; in the larger cities, schools are increasingly divided into "Gypsified" and "Gypsy-free schools", and the system of "remedial" schools is used as a means of warehousing Roma students. ICELANDEurope and Central Asia CRC Session 32, January 2003 Save the Children Iceland – English www.crin.org/docs/resources/treaties/crc.32/Iceland_ngo_report.doc […]
In 1998 the Children’s House was opened, a progressive experiment in dealing with sexual abuse of children. In 1999 the legal status of children, victims of sexual abuse, was greatly improved. They now have the right to legal representation, taking care of their cases during investigation and in court. The legislation aims at protecting the child from fear and retraumatization. […]
Some progress has been made in treatment for young offenders outside prisons. However it still happens that offenders between 15-17 are kept in prison with grown-ups. This is unacceptable. […]
As well known worldwide, children living in poverty, are more vulnerable than other children to criminality, prostitution and drug abuse. Serious measures are needed to secure a prosperous future for Icelandic children in low income families. […]
A study performed by the Icelandic Red Cross Society identified children with developmental and/or behavioural problems as being particularly vulnerable to discrimination within the school and social system. These children are not recognized as disabled and very few extra resources are made available for their special needs. Likewise their parents receive insufficient support in dealing with their specific problems. The study states that this lack of support compounds the situation in the long run: these children’s psychological disturbances are more likely to worsen as they enter adulthood, and are therefore more likely to result in behavioural problems such as drug abuse or crime. […]
As mentioned earlier the Parliament raised the age of majority from 16 to 18 in 1997. At the same time it is legal for an adult to have sexual intercourse with a 14 year old child. […]
A report on prostitution published in spring 2001 by the Ministry of Justice shows evidence of child prostitution. There is no estimate in the report of the extent of this but it includes case studies of children being prostituted by adults and so-called “survival sex” among youths between 13 and 18 years of age. The Minister of Justice established a committee to look further into the extent of child prostitution. The committee published a comprehensive report this summer with numerous recommendations on the issue of pornography and prostitution, focusing specially on the protection of children. It is now up to the Ministry of Justice and the Parliament to follow up the report. In 1998 a Children´s House (Children´s Assessment Center) for victims of sexual abuse was opened. This multi-disciplinary institute handles assessment, forensic interviews, medical examination and treatment of sexually abused children. The Center aims to minimize trauma by making all the processes involved as coordinated and collaborative as possible. This Center was a major step in helping victims of sexual abuse. However it is necessary to increase the awareness of the public as well as all public officials who come into contact with children who may be victims of sexual violence. Education on the damaging consequences of sexual abuse is needed as well as on behavioral patterns hat might suggest that such abuse is taking place. In this report Save the Children would like to draw the attention to sexual offenders under the age of 18. They have often been victims of violence themselves and may become serial offenders. A research by two students at the Children´s House shows that 30% of the offenders are under the age of 18. Research has also shown that intervention at young age is very important to prevent recidivism. It is vital to give the young offenders the necessary treatment and develop preventive methods to protect children from becoming victims of sexual violence or becoming sexual offenders. More needs to be done on behalf of the government to deal with this serious problem.
South AsiaCRC Session 35, 12-30 January 2004 India Alliance for Child Rights – English (No electronic version on CRIN –below are excerpts reporoduced from the hard copy available at the NGO for the CRC). See also: www.crin.org/docs/resources/treaties/crc.35/India_ACHR_ngo_report.doc www.crin.org/docs/resources/treaties/crc.35/India_NMWC_ngo_report.doc www.crin.org/docs/resources/treaties/crc.35/India_CORE_ngo_report.doc […]
Apart from scheduled castes and tribes, the lowest rungs of other backward castes also endure denials and deprivations contrary to both law and natural justice. Minority communities, notably Muslims and in growing number of locations Christians, as well s neo-Buddhists (primarily converts from dalit Hindus), are targets of at least social exclusion and often of violence. […]
Available information suggests that as many as 25 per cent of those lured or trafficked into the commercial sex trade are below 15 years of age. […]
Available information indicates that the prevalence of domestic sexual abuse is not small. Virtually all the SPR information refers to girl children, not boys. There is some acknowledgement of the particular vulnerability of children from disadvantaged communities. […]
The SPR cites Section 83 of the Indian Penal Code which provides that ‘nothing is an ofence which is done by a child aged above 7 years of age and below 12 years who has not attained sufficien maturity of understanding to judge the nature and consequences of his action on that occasion.’ This proviso remains conditional to someone interpreting the child offender’s maturity of understanding, and is therefore not a sure protection. […]
Child Marriage Restraint Act As the Title suggests, it is merely a law to prevent the solomnisation of child marriages, but does not address the situation of a child who has been married off before the law could prevent it. It does little to protect children who have been arried off, sometimes even before they can stand n their own feet. […]
The SPR acknowledges female infanticide and foeticide as a gross violations of child rights, which are reflected in the skewed sex ratios in the country. […]
What information does the State party have on the treatment of children in bonded, forced or unchecked work situations? Degrading treatment also includes the routine humiliation of ‘out-groups’ such as Dalits; it is not mentioned. The brutalities inflicted on children trapped in the sex trade are not mentioned. Domestic maltreatment is not mentioned. The persistence of maiming of children for begging is not mentioned. […]
NGOs tell of children facing torture and violence in the government’s custodial homes…The fact is that there are a number of children who continue to be arrested and kept in police custody or lodged in adult jails. […]
In March 2003, the country was shocked by news reports of children being arrested under the new and extremely controversial anti-terrorism law. […]
The existing laws were formed in the 19th century and bear on relevance to today’s conditions. a. The emphasis lies on morality and modesty and disregards the trauma and loss of the sexually abused victim. b. Oral sex is not included, child rape not validated, incest offences are not separately addressed, and sections of rape and molestation ignore the male sex. c. In some cases of abuse it is almost impossible to find evidence of penetration especially when the child is below 12 years of age. By the very virtue of several such cases being reported, such outdate laws need to be seriously reconsidered and declared obsolete, and replace with more clear-eyed legislation. […] Children continue to be at risk nad to suffer harm in many parts of the country where armed conflict, whether recognized as such or regarded as law ans order problems, is endemic. […] India continues ot hae the largest number of child labour in the world. […] Trafficking of children remains on eof he worst forms of human rights abuses and intolerable forms of contemporary slavery. Children are bought and sold within the country and across boarders for a number of purposes such as: a. Sexual exploitation- forced prostitution; socially and religiouslysanctified forms of prostitution; sex tourism and pornography. b. Illegal activities- begging; organ trad; drug peddling and smuggling. c. Labour- bonded labour; domestic work; agricultural labour; construction work; carpet industry, garment industry, fish/shrimp export as well soothe sites of work in the formal and informal economy. […]
d. Entertainment and sports e. For and through adoption f. For and through marriage. g. Newspaper reports also suggest young girls playing surrogate mothers for money given totheir parents in return. […] The growing incidence of child sexual abuse, of both boys and girls demands for comprehensive law . […] Children living on the streets of Mumbai Alone on the mean streets of Mumbai, rebelling against poverty, neglect and abuse within their families are the street children- run away children who have no bed…. Only “ the earth and the sky” and who have made the spaces under overhead bridges, railway platforms, marketplaces, street corners and beaches their homes. They live in constant fear of the police, because they are get carrieres etc. Since they have no safe place to keep their earnings, whatever they earn is blown-up on movies, drugs, alcohol and other vices. They either relieve themselves in open spaces or pay Rs. 1/ per visit to a public toilet. The ‘dwelling places’ are surrounded by garbage and infested with rodents. When asked what heir dream house would be like, the talked of clean, sprawling rooms with attached bathrooms and water connection, surrounded by a garden full of trees. […]
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