Prevalence,
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material to use in a term-paper, you are advised to scan the postings on this
page and others to see which aspect(s) of street life are of particular
interest to you. You might be
interested in exploring how children got there, how they survive, and how
some manage to leave the street.
Perhaps your paper could focus on how some street children abuse the
public and how they are abused by the public … and how they abuse each
other. Would you like to write about
market children? homeless children? Sexual and labor exploitation? begging? violence? addiction? hunger? neglect? etc. There is a lot to the subject of Street
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ARCHIVES *** Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61638.htm [accessed 7 February
2020] CHILDREN
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Children begin school at the age of 6 and are required to complete 9 years of
education. The government made 11 years of education available at no cost,
and most children completed compulsory schooling. In many cases the
government paid for university education. Child abuse was a
limited problem. The Ministry of Labor reported that 86 percent of the
country's 32 thousand orphans had been abandoned by their parents; this
statistic appeared to include children of alcoholic parents removed from the
home by the government. The law allows military units to adopt and train
orphans between the ages of 14 and 16. While these children are not enlisted
in the military, they must comply with military rules, wear a uniform, and
obey orders. They are required to join the unit upon reaching the draft age
of 18. NATIONAL/RACIAL/ETHNIC
MINORITIES
- The Romani community was characterized by high unemployment and a low level
of education; in November authorities estimated the unemployment rate at 93
percent. Romani children spoke mainly Romani and Belarusian and struggled in
the school system, where the primary language of instruction was Russian Elite and Lumpen of
the Streets: The Differing Destinies of Moscow Street Children Svetlana
Sidorenko-Stephenson, Prism, Volume: 6 Issue: 4 April 28, 2000 www.jamestown.org/single/?no_cache=1&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=27926&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=222 [accessed 5 April
2011] Lena, who is also
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