{"id":1410,"date":"2015-11-20T19:14:53","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T19:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amazighworldnews.com\/?p=1410"},"modified":"2018-04-05T12:28:59","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T16:28:59","slug":"universal-childrens-day-a-reminder-of-amazigh-children-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amazighworldnews.com\/universal-childrens-day-a-reminder-of-amazigh-children-situation\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal Children’s Day: A reminder of Amazigh Children Situation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although November 20 is accepted as the Universal Children’s Day, many children in Tamazgha-North Africa\u00a0are still are still deprived of a basic needs and\u00a0face great hardships in their daily lives. early marriage, child trafficking, commercial sexual exploitation of children\u00a0and high rates of child poverty and illiteracy, particularly in rural areas,\u00a0are major problems that need to be tackled. in addition, Children of\u00a0the Amazigh community cannot always exercise their rights to their own\u00a0culture, the use of their own language and the preservation and development of their own identity.<\/p>\n

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Amazigh Children walking to School in Atlas Mountan Area<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In Morocco, nearly 30 per cent of the population are less than 14 years old. Many children are affected by rising levels of poverty and child neglect. Over recent years, the country has introduced a number of campaigns to tackle the problem of child labour. Nonetheless, thousands of children continue to be subjected to exploitative practices. Minors who work in agriculture or domestic service often work in precarious conditions where they have to use dangerous tools and equipment, are exposed to chemicals and high levels of noise.<\/p>\n

Their physical and mental development is at stake. While boys traditionally work in agriculture in a very miserable conditions, girls are subject to early marriage that remains\u00a0an issue especially in rural areas, with UNICEF reporting in 2004 that\u00a016 per cent of all marriages were child marriages.314 While the Family Code established the\u00a0minimum age of marriage for women and men at 18 years, judges are still allowed to authorize\u00a0marriages before that age, including girls as young as 13, without any mandatory legal conditions\u00a0having been fulfilled.\u00a0\u00a0Child prostitution has also been reported, particularly in\u00a0Atlas Mountain regions.<\/p>\n

The majority of working children do not receive an education. Without an education, many of these children will face grave difficulties once they become adults. The number of Moroccan children who live in the street has been growing. Although exact numbers are unknown, it is estimated that tens of thousands roam the streets of the country’s urban centres, particularly in the cities of Casablanca, Marrakesh, Fes and Meknes.<\/p>\n

Although there have been some improvements since the past years,\u00a0discrimination remains a serious concern for the children\u00a0especially among the Amazigh communities in rural areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Although November 20 is accepted as the Universal Children’s Day, many children in Tamazgha-North Africa\u00a0are still are still deprived of a basic needs and\u00a0face great hardships in their daily lives. early marriage, child trafficking, commercial sexual exploitation of children\u00a0and high rates of child poverty and illiteracy, particularly in rural areas,\u00a0are major problems that need to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,1],"tags":[184,185,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-1410","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tamazgha","8":"category-uncategorized","9":"tag-amazigh-children","10":"tag-tamazgha-north-africa","11":"tag-universal-childrens-day"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazighworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazighworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazighworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazighworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazighworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amazighworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazighworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazighworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazighworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazighworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}