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some of the initiatives that were undertaken as part of this holistic programme included: 1  awareness campaigns with camel owners in the uae to ensure that they ceased to employ child jockeys 2  establishment of transit centers providing medical assistance and other services to affected children in sudan 3  family tracing system verified by justice authorities in mauritania 4  social care of children and back-to-school campaigns in pakistan 5  establishment of community care committees in bangladesh 6  maintaining follow-up mechanisms empowering non-government organisations and local institutions to oversee the payment of outstanding salaries to child beneficiaries in order to strengthen the comprehensive reintegration procedures, the uae and unicef agreed in april 2007 to establish a second and expanded phase of the rehabilitation programme, which commenced in 2009. as a follow-up measure, the uae committed dh30 million, which helped in country-based interventions to tackle trafficking by focusing on the establishment of monitoring mechanisms to prevent children formerly involved in camel racing from re-entering hazardous or exploitative labour. in 2009, a senior ministry of interior delegation assessed the progress made in the rehabilitation process. as part of this effort, the uae and mauritania formally closed the files of over 500 former child jockeys, according to the uae special committee for rehabilitation of camel jockeys. officials also travelled to bangladesh where payments were made to hundreds of former child jockeys. the uae was expected to complete its compensation scheme to former child jockeys in pakistan and sudan by the end of december. in all, the uae has undertaken at least 26 social and economic projects related to rehabilitating and reintegrating the former camel jockeys into their home societies. though the uae considers that the issue of child camel jockeys is now finished, as a local level, the ministries of social affairs and interior, in coordination with the country s special committee for rehabilitation of camel jockeys and unicef, continue to pursue follow-up action in countries of origin. 183 > human rights
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