Child rights In Iran and Yemen

By Michael Such

A Day In a Child’s Life in Yemen

Travel to work or schoolSchool is a day off for most kidsAfter school the rest of the kids go to workThe go to work on streets and metal shopsThey make $4.60

A DAY IN A CHILD’S LIFE IN IRAN

Lots of children in Iran work

They work in very dangerous lungs

Work all day

Make around $4.00

Have to work for poor drug addict parents

Why Child Rights Has Changed

• Poverty is the main reason• Religion• Parents doing drugs• Bad jobs

More families have gone under the poverty line

Religion has an important part in this

Children have to work because parents are wasting on drugs

There aren’t good jobs to make money

How Child Rights Has Changed

Yemen Religion

Muslim is the main religion Center parts are Jewish Men force religion on kids People are constantly trying

trying to good for god

Almost all Muslim Strong beliefs for their religion Men pray a lot Men force religion on kids

Iran Religion

Muslims beliefs• Convert everyone to Muslim• Do good deeds for god• Everyone should constantly be praying• To them violence can be a good deed

Judaism beliefs

• Believe in God• Strongly follow the torah• Also considered a race• Process of becoming a man to

them is celebrating a mitzvah

Impact of Religion On Child Rights

•The dads force religion on kids•Kids constantly praying•Affects kids jobs•People trying to make religious education a right

Religion Affecting Jobs

• Hard to pray when working all day seven days a week

• Most kids can’t go to religious school• Don’t have time to pray in town• Can’t do certain things because of religion

unicef trying to help

Making more schools to help kids Getting rid of illegal labor Helping religion to become a right Helping families

• There is child labor in both countries

• Both have Muslim religion in their countries

• Both kids make around four dollars a day

• Both countries experiencing poverty

• Both countries parents of families

have problems

SIMILARITIES BETWEEN IRAN AND YEMEN

Differences Between Iran and Yemen

• In Yemen the center parts of country are Jewish• For child labor you make a little more money• In Iran men get together in big sessions to pray• In Yemen more kids go to school

References• Child Workers in Yemen given Back Their Childhood - CNN." Featured

Articles from CNN. 31 Jan. 2011. Web. 17 Mar. 2011. <http://articles.cnn.com/2011-01-31/world/yemen.child.labor_1_child-labor-child-workers-qat?_s=PM:WORLD>.

• "IRIN Asia | IRAN-IRAN: Focus on Child Labor | Iran | Children | Economy | Health & Nutrition." IRIN • Humanitarian News and Analysis from Africa, Asia and the Middle East - Updated Daily. Web. 17 Mar. 2011. <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=40428>.

• "IRIN Middle East | YEMEN: What to Do about Child Labor? | Yemen | Children | Economy | Human Rights." IRIN • Humanitarian News and Analysis from Africa, Asia and the Middle East - Updated Daily. Web. 17 Mar. 2011. <http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportID=89460>.

References

• "Religion and Expressive Culture - Yemenis." Countries and Their Cultures. Web. 17 Mar. 2011. <http://www.everyculture.com/Africa-Middle-East/Yemenis-Religion-and-Expressive-Culture.html>.

• Unicef. Unicef. Web. http://www.unicef.org/iran/media_6303.html.