Tunisia-Endangered childhood: Over 67 reports per day

The child protection delegates receive on a daily basis over 67 reports related to endangered childhood situation, General Child Protection Delegate Mehyar Hammadi announced on Thursday.

Speaking at a press conference devoted to the presentation of the child protection delegates’ annual report for 2019, Hammadi pointed out that 53.88 % of reports are related to home-based threatening situations.

Besides, he specified that roads are the second threatening place for children with 3,743 reports (21.38%), whilst schools rank 3rd with 2,329 reports (13.3%).

« Over half of the reports (53.34%) regard boys against 46.6- % for girls, » he indicated, adding that the highest rates had been registered in Greater Tunis, followed by the south-west region.

Hammadi said that 61.10 % of the reports (10,442 children) concern school-going children against 22.08 % (3,774 children) who are under the school age.

Reports on drop-outs stand at 17 % (2,873).

The official underlined that the reports relate to parental neglect regarding education and protection of their children (27 %), abuse (22%), the incapacity of the parents or guardian to take care of the child (22%), exposing the children to delinquency (9%), sexual exploitation of children (7%) and loss of family support (6%).

According to the same source, the number of reports of endangered childhood situations has multiplied over the last ten years, from 8,272 reports in 2009 to 17,506 in 2019.

The 76 child protection delegates nationwide received in the past year an average of 67,33 reports per day, that is 1.68 new reports per hour and 336 per week.

They receive 230 reports each year.

Source:(TAP)