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Al-Ahram Weekly 11 - 17 November 1999 Issue No. 455 |
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| Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875 |
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Next week, 10 years will have passed since the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. In the space of a decade, many things have changed -- and many more stayed the same. Al-Ahram Weekly marks the anniversary with an examination of two issues that continue to rankle:
child labour and street children
For nine hours each day, some of Cairo's 100,000 street children are allowed to feel they really are children. Yasmine El-Rashidi finds out how
Take a long look
When is a child not a child? Khalid Abdalla searches for a satisfactory answer
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