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Subject: What did SPDC's Representative say at UN  about protection of

children's rights?
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What did SPDC's Representative say at UN  about protection of children's
rights?
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Source:UN
Excerpt from the  UN Press Release
HR/CN/916 
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19th April 1999
COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS HEARS FURTHER PLEAS FOR PROTECTION OF CHILDREN 

U LINN MYAING (Myanmar) said Myanmar was fully committed to the successful
implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and to that end
had promulgated its Child Law of 1993. In Myanmar culture, the role of the
community in looking after the interests of children was a major one, and
thus the Government had taken measures to involve the whole community in the
implementation of the Convention. 

Myanmar had laid down a National Programme of Action for education,
according to which all children in Myanmar would be provided with primary
education by the year 2000; 80 per cent would complete primary education;
and adult illiteracy would be reduced from 22 per cent to 11 per cent.
Education also was one of the major components of the border-areas
development projects being implemented with increasing momentum by the
Government. To that end many new schools were being opened.