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situation in HOW TO USE THIS WEBPAGE Students If you are looking
for 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
Children. Scan other countries as well
as this one. Draw comparisons between
activity in adjacent countries and/or regions. Meanwhile, check out some of the Term-Paper resources
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the Resources
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Child Sex
Trafficking Study By CU-Boulder Sociologist Reveals Misperceptions www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2005/02/28/child-sex-trafficking-study-cu-boulder-sociologist-reveals-misperceptions [accessed 28 August
2012] Most adults in
Bosnia-Herzegovina think that the majority of its street children are Roma,
and that Roma beg primarily by tradition.
Prejudice against the Roma has led people to think that there was
little point to trying to help these street children, when, in fact, the
street children come from all ethnic groups. - htsccp ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/bosnia-herzegovina.htm [accessed 23 January
2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Roma children beg on the streets in Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61640.htm [accessed 7 February
2020] CHILDREN
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Education is free and compulsory through age 15; however, parents were
required to pay for textbooks, lunches, and transportation, which some
families could not afford. A lack of reliable monitoring and statistics on
enrollment and drop-out rates hindered efforts to ensure that school-age
children received an education. Children with special needs were legally
required to attend regular classes, but schools were often unable to
accommodate them. Except for Roma, almost all children finished primary
school through the 9th grade; the completion rate was lower for secondary
school. Boys and girls attended school equally. According to the
country's annual Helsinki Committee human rights report, up to 70 percent of
Romani children did not attend school regularly. Many Romani children were
unable to attend school because of extremely poor living conditions, lack of
proper clothing, and the inability or unwillingness of families to pay
school-related expenses. Verbal harassment from other students, language
problems, and registration costs and requirements also contributed to the
exclusion of Roma from schools, despite the desire of many parents to enroll
their children Child begging was
common in some Romani communities; infants (with adults) and children as
young as four were sent out to beg on street corners, often working 10 or
more hours per day in all weather conditions. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, BiH UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 3 June 2005 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/bosnia2005.html [accessed 23 January
2011] [65] The Committee
is concerned at the information that a significant number of children,
especially Roma, are living or working on the streets, that the majority of
these children are under 14, that most of them do not attend schools and
nearly half of them appear to be ill. Furthermore, the Committee notes with
concern that the work performed by these children is often harmful and
exploitative and that many of them are compelled or forced to work. CRC 39: NGO Group for the
Convention on the Rights of the Child, CRC News, 9/05/2005 www.crin.org/resources/infoDetail.asp?ID=5632&flag=news [accessed 7 April 2011] CHILD PROTECTION AND SPECIAL PROTECTION - The number of street children was not especially high, but 90% of street children were forced to beg and more than 10% of them were abused or used in some way or another. BiH was planning to introduce new measures through the police to trace them. Sharing The School
Bench: Getting Roma Children Into School United Nations
Children's Fund UNICEF, 7 October 2004 www.unicef.org/infobycountry/bosniaherzegovina_1895.html [accessed 7 April 2011] Last year, the
ranks of children on the streets of Bethesda Project -
A Human Development Project for Orphans & Street Children [DOC] Proposal for Funding
by Private Foundations and Benefactors, October 06, 2000 www.medjugorje.org/bethesda.doc [accessed 7 April 2011] The Bethesda
Project is a human development project aims at giving back to orphans, and
street children and their families the dignity they need to keep on with
their life by providing them new appropriate housing; school attendance for
boys and girls; health and psychological support; sports facilities; training
in handicraft skills and creativity; participation in livestock, farming and
gardening activities; fine arts talent development and; spiritual
development. All
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