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Street Children

The Prevalence, Abuse & Exploitation of Street Children

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At work on the Street

Afghanistan - Fahim, 11, waves his can of burning incense inside a car on a busy Kabul street, seeking alms from the driver

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Afghanistan - Malayeh, 11, tries to hawk gum to a driver on a busy street in Kabul

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Guatemala - street kids struggle to survive by selling bananas

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Guatemala - street kids struggle to survive scavenging through garbage

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Pakistan – A street child in Karachi - Photo: David Swanson/IRIN

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Pakistan – Many street children are at risk of physical and sexual abuse, child rights activists say - Photo: IRIN

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Bangladesh - Yusef, 14, and Smaile, 10, live by themselves on the streets on Dhaka, Bangladesh. They make a living by collecting plastic bottles and filling them with fresh water.   [photo: Bangladesh/2008/McCarthy]

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Bangladesh - Street children eke out a living in difficult circumstances

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Russia - Sergei boldly steals the wallet of a sleeping man in the St. Petersburg airport. He and other young bandits brag about their bravado and thievery

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Senegal - A Koranic student with his begging bowl in Dakar. Rights advocates doubt that the students learn much through begging.

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Senegal  - Talibe beggar childen in Senegal  [Photo: Pierre Holtz/IRIN]

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Senegal  - Beggar children on the streets of Dakar

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Senegal  - Talibe boy begging in Dakar

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Serbia & Montenegro - It is estimated that more than 500 children live and work on the streets of Belgrade

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Turkey - A quick sandwich before going back to work collecting waste paper and packaging on the streets of Ankara.  [Photograph by Rana Mullan
© UNICEF Turkey 2003]

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Turkey – Street hawkers. [Photograph by Rana Mullan © UNICEF Turkey 2004]

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Vietnam – Street child carrying a bag

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Yemen - Cleaning car windscreens is a common job for street children

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Yemen - Some 60 percent of Yemen's street children work and sleep on the streets and tend to be separated from their families, according to a new study

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Afghanistan - Street kids in Kabul warm themselves by a makeshift fire

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Bangladesh - Slum children of Dhaka city-1 [photo by Nari Jibon]

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Bangladesh - Slum children of Dhaka city-2 [photo by Nari Jibon]

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Russia - Sergei Mayorov, at age 8, had been alone on the street in St. Petersburg for nearly three years. He insists on smoking American Marlboro cigarettes, which cost the equivalent of two days average Russian wages. He steals or begs to gather money to buy them, then gives them away

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Russia - Sergei: A Loss of Freedom.  He is again a helpless little boy as shelter workers give him a bath and check for lice.  Sensing a loss of freedom, Sergei refuses to sleep in the shelter for more than a few nights at a time

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Russia - Sergei, 10, doesn't know why his parents drove him out of the house

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There are about 2 million street children in Russia.  Every summer, this number grows to as many as 4 million.

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Ukraine - In Kharkiv, thousands of street children live in manholes underground.

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Ukraine - Streets apart: one of thousands of Ukraine's homeless children, Vlodimir, 15, sleeps rough in Kharkiv.  [photographer: David Rose]

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Ukraine - Orphans and Street Children Program in Vinogradov

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Ethiopia - Encountering the street kids who live underground is not easy, but once we talked to a few, dozens appeared.

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Cambodia – boy eats remnants of a lunch box of rice that he found in the trash

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Colombia - Few organisations help children in slum areas and on the streets of Colombia.

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Guatemala children adapt to survive

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Guatemala - Police and private security guards have been known to beat up and even kill street children

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Guatemala - street kids struggle to survive sleeping in doorways

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Guatemala - street kids struggle to survive abusing inhalants

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India - Indian street children play beside a parked hand rickshaw on a street in Kolkata.  [Photo: Deshakalyan Chowdhury / AFP-Getty Images]

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Indonesia - RAY OF LIGHT: Volunteers of Sahabat Anak hold a study session for street children under Grogol overpass in West Jakarta on Sunday. Most of the children, who had otherwise dropped out of school, resume their studies after joining the sessions. (JP/Tifa Asrianti)]

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Peru – clustering at the Rotary

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Peru – homeless child sleeping

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Jamaica - The children are all over the streets and become street children because there's no-one there to care for them. - Olga Heaven, Hibiscus

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Romania - children have made a hot, foul-smelling tunnel their home

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Romania – Underground Bucharest

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Romania – Children living in Underground Bucharest

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Sisters

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Philippines - Medecins Sans Frontieres operates a program targeting 200 out of an estimated 200,000 children who live on the streets of the capital, Manila – [photo copyright by Roger Job]

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Congo (DRC) - Street boys playing at a center for children in Kinshasa. ©2005 Marcus Bleasdale

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Kenya – sniffing glue

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Kenya – Street child in Kericho

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Kenya – street child

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Kenya – street child

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Kenya – street child

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Kenya – Glue kids - tragic young victims in Kenya

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Kenya – Toddlers ... clutching glue containers as if they are baby bottles

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Vietnam - Street children in HCM City. The Labour Ministry and the European Community’s project Helping Street Children has reunited 134 homeless youngsters from the Quang Thai Commune with their families. — VNS Photo Truong Vi

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Zambia – Street Kids flock to Solwezi

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Zimbabwe – A Street Kid in Harare

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Off the Street

Afghanistan - Frishta, a 14-year-old former street seller of plastic bags, is one of the first students of Afghanistan's revived National Institute of Music.  [Matt Gutman/ABC News]

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Congo (DRC) – A street boy sleeping in a shelter in Kinshasa. ©2005 Marcus Bleasdale

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Haiti - Few of the 120 boys jailed at Fort Dimanche prison know when or if they will be released. Some, fearing the streets, have asked not to be freed. Some are jailed for years for minor crimes or are innocents nabbed in neighborhood sweeps, children's advocates say [Photo: Michel Du Cille]

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Off the street

Ukraine – Two homeless youths sit on a mattress, while a third boy sleeps, in a burnt-out and abandoned house strewn with garbage in Odessa

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Off the street

Ukraine – Artem, 14, sits on a wall outside ‘The Way Home’, a UNICEF-supported shelter in the port city of Odessa, Ukraine that helps ensure the fundamental rights of street children   ©UNICEF/HQ05-1826/Pirozzi

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Ukraine – Ukrainian street children have a chance to realize their rights under the Convention on the Rights of the Child through a UNICEF-supported summer camp programme operated by ‘The Way Home’

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Poverty

Little girl playing

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Poverty

Sudan - Instead of studying, many children are sent to work to supplement the family income.

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