Tunisia prepares plan to tackle child begging
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Webdo
Tunisia’s Ministry of Family is preparing a field study to develop a multisectoral plan to tackle child begging. However, a parliamentary response published on 7 August gave no figures on the number of children affected, according to Webdo.
Tunisia’s Ministry of Family is preparing a multisectoral plan to tackle child begging, based on a field study that is currently being finalised. The Minister of Family, Women, Children and the Elderly, Asma Jabri, said this in a response addressed to the president of the Assembly of the Representatives of the People.
The ministerial response was made public on 7 August and bears the minister’s signature. The planned initiative is intended to mobilise several sectors to address the presence of children in the streets and their exposure to begging.
