Supervision and aftercare services for young offenders

148. The Committee is also concerned about reports relating to the refusal of some health care providers to give family planning services to sexually active adolescents, despite there being no legal restrictions in this regard.

A total of 28 trained youth mentors will deliver on site technical support to youth groups during 2005.

347. With regard to children and youth, school, through teachers and tutors, assists the family in its educational functions.

Personnel who have received awareness and other training from provincial outreach workers since November 1995

The artistic activity was supervised by 7,200 highly qualified instructors, tutors, choreographers and accompanists (their number decreased compared with previous years).

The United Nations youth development and participation project concluded a review of youth mentoring activities in 2004 and provided on site technical support to youth groups in Somalia.

Civic groups have also been responsible for preventive activities directed at young people, such as youth leadership training, preventive education, community activities and peer counselling.

The Committee is concerned at the lack of adolescent health services and the large number of teenage pregnancies.

Care of adolescents Panama apos s population is predominantly young in both rural and urban areas.

The review highlighted the need to have a set of trained youth capable of delivering leadership and organizational development and mentoring support to youth groups.

The Committee is also concerned at the increasing alcohol and tobacco consumption by adolescents and the lack of programmes for the prevention of suicide among adolescents.

The Committee welcomes the establishment of a specific juvenile justice system under the Law on Juvenile Justice of 19 April 1996.

The National Council for Child and Adolescent Rights had formulated guidelines for the protection of the rights of adolescent workers and had also authorized follow up to and participation in the national programme on working children and adolescents.

Youth

Health professionals often lack respect for young people, and the young often do not trust the professionals.

The terms youth, adolescent or juvenile are also used in the legal terminology.

Groups of young people (universities and the Veraguas outreach group)

Comité de Superación de Jóvenes de Tabasco

EATWISE Enlightened and Aware Teens Who Inspire Smart Eating.

I was a Young Republican, a Teenage Republican, a leader in the Teenage Republicans.

CONANDA Conselho Nacional dos Direitos da Criança e do Adolescente the National Council for the Rights of Children and Adolescents

30 hours for pupils apos hostel and dormitory tutors

G. Counselling of women staff

Adolescent health

Percentage of adolescents

Total juveniles

I wish to draw Members' attention to the new concept of youth leadership, aimed at developing innovation and leadership in young people.

With regard to adolescent reproductive health and reproductive tract infections, the Government has taken several steps to address the special needs of this group through service delivery points that provide counseling and through the mobilization and involvement of their families in solving their problems. The Government has also established a National Committee on Reproductive Health, one responsive to the needs of adolescents.

Shelters for adolescents

Nehru Yuva Kendras, national youth clubs, have spearheaded the youth movement in the country.

In San Francisco, the Special Rapporteur also had the occasion to visit a juvenile detention centre and to meet with juvenile street prostitutes.

They feel that poverty and changing social structures are two contributing factors to juvenile delinquency.

He has said that unemployment and a lack of educational opportunities draws youth to criminal gangs.

Québec (Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse) v. Montréal (City) Québec (Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse) v. Boisbriand (City), 1 S.C.R. 665.

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

Background paper

The Code of Children and Adolescents

Fertility of adolescents

1988 to 1995 Member, Executive Committee of the National Coordinating Body for work with children and adolescents

There are 837 Guardianship Councils, 221 Public Prosecutor's Offices for Children and Adolescents, 202 Child and Youth Courts and 119 Municipal Councils for Women.

Guidance Books for learning the spirit of the Nineteen Congress of CPC in ethnic minority languages.

38. Measures to protect children and young persons from exploitation are provided by the Juvenile Law.

(i) Consulting sessions

Among the young people native to the agriculture sector, 38 per cent of children aged 10 to 12 helped out on the farm which, with equal numbers of children per year, makes for a total of 4,500 young people.