Al-Ahram Weekly   Al-Ahram Weekly
11 - 17 November 1999
Issue No. 455
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875 Issues navigation Current Issue Previous Issue Back Issues

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

Precious -- for a while

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

'Work is good, school is good'

 
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