As of 1 September 2002 it is compulsory that five year old and six year old children are prepared for school.

Homes for little children of no more than three years of age (transformed into children apos s homes on 1 January 1993)

57 year old man raped 11 year old girl. Sentenced to 15 years imprisonment (19 February 2000).

42 year old man, raped an 8 year old girl. Sentenced to 12 years imprisonment (19 May 2000).

25 year old man raped a 10 year old girl. Sentenced to 27 years imprisonment (23 March 2000).

Between 18 November and 8 December 1996, for example, care was given to 784 children aged 1 to 16, many being in a critical condition due to malnutrition and dehydration.

As of June 2005, there are approximately 60,000 children six years of age and younger, and there are approximately 12,000 licensed child care spaces serving children aged 13 years and younger.

An evaluation of impact conducted between 1998 and 1999 established that the height of children between ages 12 and 36 months had increased by 16 and that the incidence of illnesses among children under age 5 had fallen by 12 .

208. In 1991, 77.37 per cent of the deaths of children aged 0 to 14 occurred below the age of 1 year.

Four of the children were under the age of 10, the two youngest being about four years of age.

A survey undertaken in September 2002 demonstrated that 220,000 children and adolescents, between 5 and 15 years old, illegally carried out domestic labor.

In February 1998, 10 Bangladesh boys, aged between five and eight, were rescued in India while being smuggled to become camel jockeys.

25 year old man raped a 13 year old girl and indecently assaulted a 3 year old toddler, was sentenced to 16 years imprisonment for rape and 2 years imprisonment for indecent assault (2 May 2000).

140. On 25 December 1997, three children aged 10 to 12 were injured by a land mine that exploded near the village of Beit Ola near Hebron.

43. As of December 1996, 4,677 students were enrolled in government schools. Education is free and compulsory for all children between the ages of 5 and 15.

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.

58 UNICEF, Early Years , at http www.unicef.org oPt children.html.

As of mid December 1996, some 775 boys between the ages of 7 and 16 were reportedly being held at the Al Huda camp at Abu Dum, a facility for street children.

143. The rate of enrolment among children between the ages of 6 and 11 declined from 70 per cent in 1985 to 55 per cent in 1995.

The 1999 Law on Child Labour prohibited the employment of minors under 16.

According to witnesses, child labour in the 12 to 16 year age group had gone from 22 to 44 per cent since 1995.

Persons who take care of a child from the age of one year and a half to three years receive a benefit in the amount of 7.50 LVL per month.

According to the Statute, a child is a person between zero and 12 years of age, and an adolescent is between 12 and 18 years of age.

In Mexico a child attains majority at age 18.

About 10.8 million children under the age of five years continue to die each year, some 4 million during the first month of life.

Between the beginning of the embargo and June 1998, 390,614 children under the age of five have died, and a further 615,548 over the age of five.

The age limit has been raised from 16 to 18 years, virtual child pornography also became an offence on 1 October 2002 and a new offence has been introduced being deliberately present at pornography shows in which underage children perform.

The amount of the childcare allowance for a child under the age of a year and a half is 30 LVL per month.

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.

In 2002, female child mortality rate under five years old was 31.4 o and male child mortality rate was 34.2 o.

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

(b) After school centres and clubs for children from the age of about 10 to the age of 16 (18).

Children from 6 to under 12 (DM month)

The age composition of the population in Jordan is characteristically young, with minors (i.e., the under 14 age group) constituting 51.7 per cent of the total population in 1979, including 19.2 per cent under age five and 32 per cent between ages six and 14, i.e., children at the compulsory education stage.

In Estonia 31.8 of children aged 1 to 2 and 74.6 of 3 year olds use child care institutions (according to the data of the Statistical Office of 2002).

The report claimed that 1,346 Palestinians, 276 of whom were children under 17 and 70 under 13, had been killed by the IDF or the security forces since the beginning of the uprising on 9 December 1987 up to 30 November 1997.

Distribution of the employed EAP aged 10 years and over, according to monthly

(ii) Children vaccinated in the second year of life (born in 1992)

Nevertheless, a survey on employment in the first quarter (January March 2005) conducted by the National Statistical Office reveals that, out of 15,749,000 child workers aged between 15 19 years old, 6,245,000 or approximately 39.7 per cent are girls.

The Law of 10 June 1999 On General Education prescribes that the pre school educational programme encompasses children up to the age of 7.

It is compulsory for children who have reached 7 years of age to enter grade 1 of primary school.

Children aged 0 2 years

3 years of age

The Convention on the Rights of the Child defines a child as every human being below the age of eighteen years unless under the law applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier (art.

And not only that, when I was eight I became a child soldier.