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NGO Group for the Convention on the Rights of the Child
Grupo de las ONGs para la Convención sobre los derechos del niño
Groupe des ONG pour la Convention relative aux droits de l'enfant 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:
"Violence Against Children - What do NGOs know, What do NGOs say ? An analysis of information relating to violence available in NGO reports to
the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child from 1990 to 2005
A research by: Autumn Barr and Roxanne Schury
This publication was prepared in the framework of a programme
of the NGO Group for the Convention on the Rights of the Child
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FOR MORE RECENT REPORTS, PLEASE CHECK THE CRIN WEBSITE:
http://www.crin.org/docs/resources/treaties/crc.25/annex-vi-crin.shtml AFGHANISTAN
South Asia CRC session not scheduled yet ALBANIA Europe and Central Asia
CRC Session 38, 10 - 28 January 2005
Children's Human Rights Centre of Albania - English
www.crin.org/docs/resources/treaties/crc.38/Albania_ngo_report.pdf
[...]
...it can be said that the rights of the child are cruelly violated and in
many other cases they have not been guaranteed or protected.
[...]
The budget of government at central and local levels does not include a
specific budget to cover children; nevertheless children in Albania make up
almost 40% of population.
[...]
Child labour and child trafficking, street children, children in conflict
with law and child abuse are the most striking phenomenon in Albania.
[...]
Albania does not have a National Authority for Children, which can monitor
the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. There are
many difficulties and a serious lack in collecting, processing and
analyzing data related to children. There are no reliable statistics on
children in conflict with law. Children in conflict with law often are not
separated by the adults in pre-trial detention centres or prisons. The
absence of specialised staff for children in conflict with the law, as well
as the non-existence of the Court of Minors are another concern for
children's rights.
[...]
The knowledge of the Convention on the Rights of the Child at the level of
the Government and society at large is very limited.
[...]
The minimum age for admission to employment defined in the Work Code of the
republic of Albania, and it is above 16 years of age.
[...]
Roma children, Gypsy are discriminated in Albania. This is seen in the
confrontation of these children with the indigenous ones. This
differentiation is evident in all the aspects of life: at school, nursery,
kindergartens, in social-cultural life, and relations with the public
administration (including police, the Attorney's Office and Courts).
In the Albanian schools it is noticed the discrimination of children by
their teachers according to the economic situation or social strata of
their families. This is apparent in the relations of teachers with pupils
and the way of differentiated treatment of children belonging to high
social and economic strata and those belonging to lower strata. Also, this
category includes disabled and chronically sick persons or those with
incurable diseases. These children are not treated with any special care
either by the state or the teachers.
[...]
It often happens that in the Pre-trial Detention Centres, children in
conflict with the law are maltreated and abused emotionally, and often
there are cases in which physical abuse and tortured is carried out on
them.
[...]
On 8 July of 2004, in the rooms of the Pre-trial Detention Centre of
Rreshen, a 17 years old boy died. It resulted that the child had fractures
in the back of his head according to the autopsy. This fact, though the two
arrested guardians are still under investigation, shows that violence is
often exercised against children and that the National Police Authority
does not respect the right to life of the child.
[...]
The Roma and Gypsy children, as national minorities in Albania, live in
rather difficult conditions, which have an influence on their rights to
education, non-discrimination, social assistance, surviving and
development.
[...]
Nevertheless the freedom of expression is not always guaranteed in practice
to children. At the school level teachers deny to children the freedom of
expression, and when children complain about this, often would be under
pressure for their marks or their education quality might be neglected by
the teachers.
The family in Albania also has problems to understand the importance of
freedom of expression of the child. Is commonly known the expression that
'the child should be seen but not heard'. Children within the family are
not given enough space to express themselves and often will be subjected to
physical and emotional abuse by the parents.
[...]
TV adds related to sex or other chat services (such as Hotlines, Sex lines
and Chat Lines) are often showed at viewing times of children. A recent
media report showed that many of the sex and chat lines were used by
adolescents and young people.
[...]
Since the violations come within the family or at school, for a child to
complaint to the relevant authorities would be rather impossible, because
of lack of legal aid. The same can be said about children's privacy at
police stations, pre-trial detention centers and prisons.
[...]
Article 25 of the Albanian Constitution and the Criminal Code of Albania
prohibit th