Children have a right to good health care and medical attention and should be protected from drugs, cigarettes, and alcohol. Children have a right to be taught about sexuality, AIDS, human rights, child abuse, and how to protect themselves. Children have a right to be protected from abuse, neglect, labour, and violence. Children have a right not to be held in prisons or police cells. Children have a right to have a say in all matters which affect them.
Children have a right to practise their own religion and culture.
Children have a right to be placed in safe and secure 'families' when they are orphaned, abandoned, refugees, or exiled. The religious and ethnic background of its people is varied. Christians have long dominated economic and political life. There are various groups of Muslims, including Sunni, Shi'a, and Druze. Armenians form a significant minority of the population.