Schools for retarded children

Executive Committee Member, Board of Management, MEDICOS School for Intellectually Impaired Children (Shoshanguve)

Lectures and workshops were held on a variety of issues, including causes of disability, prevention of disability and caring for mentally retarded and disabled children.

Comprehensive programme, including vulnerable children

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COMPREHENSIVE POLICIES AND PROGRAMMES FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD, ESPECIALLY FOR VULNERABLE CHILDREN

2. States Parties shall adopt special measures in order to protect children specially vulnerable to sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography.

This system should cover all children up to the age of 18 years, with specific emphasis on early childhood, particularly children belonging to vulnerable groups.

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About 15 per cent of children suffer goitre or present signs of iodine deficiency, thus exposing a large number of children to mental retardation.57 Seventy per cent of children have vitamin A deficiencies or are borderline cases.57 Stunting (low height for age) reached 9.0 per cent and wasting (low weight for height) 2.5 per cent among Palestinian children due to poor nutrition.58

Such groups include girls, children living in poverty, children with disabilities, children belonging to indigenous or minority groups, children from migrant families, children without parental care, children living in institutions, children living with their mothers in prisons, refugee and asylum seeking children, children infected with or affected by HIV AIDS, and children of alcohol or drug addicted parents.

This system should cover all children up to the age of 18 years, with specific emphasis on those who are particularly vulnerable, including children living in poverty, children with disabilities and children from single parent families.

41. Children form a unique sub group among the most vulnerable.

Other mechanisms have recently been defined, including the Child Protection Code (Act of 9 November 1995), grouping together all the rights, initiatives and protective measures due to children, particularly those in vulnerable situations victims of negligence, violence or sexual abuse children threatened with social deviation and marginalization children exploited economically, etc.

Chile will have a lower child mortality than Cuba within some few years from now.

Participation in the organization of mutual aid groups (for example, mothers of mentally handicapped children)

The Committee is concerned that societal discrimination persists against vulnerable groups of children, including children with disabilities, those living in institutions or in poverty, migrants and asylum seekers with no formal residence permits.

The Special Committee was informed by witnesses that, on occasion, some settlers who had attacked Palestinian children were not prosecuted because they were pronounced as being mentally retarded .

He also visited an institution for children in vulnerable situations or who have committed minor offences and a centre for child asylum seekers.

Account must also be taken of vulnerable groups namely, women and children.

This is a disorder that retards mental development in the child and causes permanent mental impairments.

Still, over 29 million children, mainly in disadvantaged communities, are not reached by routine immunization.

(iv) The rights of children, the elderly and persons with physical or mental disabilities

Within some years Chile may have better child survival than the United States.

The existing child rights committees had been strengthened and a national programme to assist orphans and vulnerable children had been formulated.

While children certainly constitute one of the most vulnerable groups on whom the effects of the war were particularly acute, it seems that they are still not considered a priority.

Access to services, especially for the most vulnerable.

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Participants stressed that the rights of young children, particularly those belonging to more vulnerable groups, such as disabled children, girls, children belonging to minority or indigenous groups, children of migrant workers, children placed in institutions, children living in poverty and children in foster care, were being infringed.

This system should cover all children up to the age of 18 years, with specific emphasis on early childhood, particularly children belonging to vulnerable groups.

The development of respect for the child s personality, talents and mental and physical abilities to their fullest potential

The national plans of action for children tend to address the needs of disadvantaged children more explicitly than other instruments.

It further urges the State party to expand benefits such as scholarships for disadvantaged children, including those from vulnerable populations such as the floating population and from poor regions in western China.

Strengths and weaknesses in the follow up to the special session on children

Support for vulnerable families with school age children 400,000 ( ) 1 year

The Committee is particularly concerned at the insufficient measures and programmes for the protection of the rights of the most vulnerable children, especially children who are victims of abuse, children of single parents, children born out of wedlock, abandoned children, disabled children, children living in poverty and children who, in order to survive, are living and or working in the streets.

The Committee is particularly concerned at the insufficient measures and programmes for the protection of the rights of the most vulnerable children, especially children who are victims of abuse, children of single parents, children born out of wedlock, abandoned children, disabled children, children living in poverty and children who, in order to survive, are living and or working on the street.

The national plans of action for children tend to address the needs of disadvantaged children more explicitly than is done in other instruments.

Largely not included in these surveys is a new vulnerable category young boys, especially street children.

Attention was also paid to the vulnerability of disadvantaged groups of children, including girls and children belonging to minority groups or who are indigenous, which in fact confirmed the relevance of the principle of non discrimination, as recognized by article 2 of the Convention.

In view of the crucial importance of early childhood programmes for the sound development of children, the Committee calls on States parties to ensure that all children, especially the most vulnerable are guaranteed access to these programmes.

The possible effects of gender , race or origin based discrimination were evaluated and attention was paid to the factors that could aggravate the risk of violence, such as mental or physical handicaps, poverty and the vulnerability of specific groups of children, particularly migrant, indigenous or minority children.

34. The international community was fully aware of the vulnerability of the world s children.

Improving children s access to quality education, improving the provision of health care for children, and protecting vulnerable children, in particular those caught up in prostitution and working children, remain challenges for Cambodia.

29 of the CRC contains a similar provision the education of the child shall be directed to the development of the child's personality, talents and mental and physical abilities to their fullest potential.