Many have been drawn into gangs, their childhood literally stolen.

(a) For children born as from 1992 the child raising period credited in the statutory pension insurance is increased by two years to three years.

In Honduras, both girls and boys have access to education and currently, in general, there are more girls than boys in primary school and more young women than young men who are able to read and write.

Children aged five to six are most numerous in pre school child care institutions, they make up 83 of the children of the referred age.

MICS in 2005 2006 will collect data on child labour, birth registration, FGM C, child marriage, prevalence of orphans, child discipline and childhood disability.

Girls as young as 7 years of age are made to marry much older men, sometimes 30 40 years older.

In the past five years more than 800 children had been killed by the Israeli occupation forces and thousands had been injured, many of them suffering permanent disabilities.

Many are reluctant to return to Rwanda, particularly those under five years of age who are too small to give tracing information and adolescents afraid of being targeted as militants in Rwanda.

(24) National Campaign to Reduce Maternal and Infant Mortality, 1997 2000, Santo Domingo, N.D., April 1997.

Elder care, child care, already much bigger employers than cars.

It deprives them of their childhood, while the lost years of nutrition, education and socialization reduce their prospects for the future.

Three decades of Israeli occupation and the years of the intifada have had serious repercussions on the physical and mental health of Palestinian children.

As a result of armed conflicts in the past decade, 2 million children were dead and 6 million maimed.

Childhood friends, right!

IVAN'S CHILDHOOD From the novella Ivan by V. BOGOMOLOV

The Children apos s Act, No. 20 of 1991, came into force on 1 July 1992, replacing an older Children apos s Act of 1981.

In the old system they were responsible for organizing extensive leisure activities for children and juveniles.

At mid decade, the situation of children remains grave in many countries.

Children's and Adolescents' Code, Young Persons Act.

In 1994 the net enrolment rate for boys was 75 per cent, compared with 67.1 per cent for girls. In 2004 the rates were 94.6 and 90 per cent, respectively.

Youth children

For many years, IAJFCM has been taking an active part in the work of international organizations directly interested in children and youth.

Their average age was 11 and, although they were mostly boys, the proportion of girls, which had been 18 per cent in 1991 in Port au Prince, seemed to be on the increase.

A total of 150 people were killed, most of them children, women and elderly persons.

In 2000, over 100 million primary school age children all over the world were still not in education, and over 100 million young people lacked effective reading and writing skills.

These three groups coincide with the stages of childhood, youth and adulthood.

The new Protection of Children and Young Persons Act, No. 58 of 1992, came into force on 1 January 1993, replacing the older Protection of Children and Young Persons Act of 1966.

In the past five years it has also become evident that many boys as well as girls, see prostitution as the only way to survive.

This is especially the case in Africa, where it kills almost 1.2 million people a year, the vast majority of victims being young children.

In accordance with article 2 of the Children's and Adolescents' Code, a child is defined as a human being below the age of 13 years.

The year 2000 marked the tenth anniversary of the entry into effect of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. We marked the occasion in several ways, the key initiative being the Child Ambassadors' Scheme'.

By 2005, at least 41 countries had completed national plans of action for children since the General Assembly special session on children (2002) and an additional 45 plans for children were under formulation, many with UNICEF support.

No. of children

Many left Rwanda when they were very young or were born in exile.

I think fondly of my childhood.

A normal childhood, you know.

For disabled children and teenagers, what the society focuses on is the attention of sexual protection .

Many children are victims of war, but many are also combatants recruited at very early ages.

The child poverty rate decreased from 17.6 percent in 2000 to 12.9 percent in 2002.

For many years the boys, sometimes as young as four years of age, have been trafficked from countries in South Asia to supply the demand for camel jockeys.

Her country had always been an ardent defender of children apos s rights, as shown by the many legislative and constitutional provisions relating to the protection of children that had been adopted in implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which it had ratified in 1989.

Too many children and young adults had known only refugee camps, and it was time for action.

So far, pre school education has not been a prerequisite for access to the primary level it consists of three grades, the first for three year olds, the second for four year olds, and the third for five year olds.

2007 (review 2009) Elimination of discrimination against the girl child

b. Children and Youth