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FEATURED ARTICLE *** EASMO - Open Air Socio-educational Action Team Children and Youth in action At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 5 May 2011] DESCRIPTION OF THEIR WAY OF LIFE - They live in groups or alone
and sleep on cartoons spread on the ground or under market stalls and huddled
against each other to protect themselves against the cold weather … they eat
remnants from restaurants … they bathe in backwater and wash their clothes
there … they treat themselves with medicines exposed in the street or using
traditional treatment … the younger ones are victimized by the older ones and
use the former to commit reprehensible acts such as stealing, drug sale and
pedophilia ***
ARCHIVES *** UNICEF - www.unicef.org/infobycountry/cotedivoire.html [accessed 5 May 2011] The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms
of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/cote-d'ivoire.htm [accessed 30 January 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Children also shine shoes, run errands, watch and wash cars, sell
food in street restaurants, and work as vendors or in sweatshop conditions in
small workshops. Children have been
found working in small businesses, tailor and beauty shops, and manufacturing
and repair shops. There are also large
numbers of street children in the country, particularly in Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61565.htm [accessed 30 January 2011] CHILDREN - There were an estimated 215
thousand street children in the country, including 50 thousand in Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of
the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 8 June 2001 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/cotedivoire2001.html [accessed 30 January 2011] [57] While welcoming the
establishment of a national program for the social settlement and
resettlement of street children, the Committee remains concerned at the
increase in the number of children living in the streets. Information about Street Children – www.streetchildren.org.uk/reports/Information%20about%20Street%20Children%20-%20Ivory%20Coast.doc At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 5 May 2011] The inter-ministerial,
multi-disciplinary national committee specially established a few years ago to
assist children in the streets is sadly rarely visible, let alone active or
operational. Children and Youth in Action [access information unavailable] MAIN DIFFICULTIES ENCOUNTERED - Lack of willingness on the part
of the children to return to their families … Parents fail to visit their
children at the AKWABA center … Lack of financial assistance … Minors freed
from prison prefer to live in the street. The Carrefour Jeunesse (or Youth
Crossroads) of Grand Bassam Children and Youth in action At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 22 September 2011] WAY OF LIFE - Some sleep in the night by
market watchmen … some sleep on busy cinema paths under the protection of the
"bellas" … another group that plays poker
and consume drugs is found in Mossou … others also
play poker in the swamps behind the Carrefour Jeunesse
center and sleep at the center. EASMO - Open Air Socio-educational Action Team Children and Youth in action At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 5 May 2011] DESCRIPTION OF THEIR WAY OF LIFE - They live in groups or alone
and sleep on cartoons spread on the ground or under market stalls and huddled
against each other to protect themselves against the cold weather … they eat
remnants from restaurants … they bathe in backwater and wash their clothes
there … they treat themselves with medicines exposed in the street or using
traditional treatment … the younger ones are victimized by the older ones and
use the former to commit reprehensible acts such as stealing, drug sale and
pedophilia United Methodist Women’s Action Network, Action Alert,
June 2003 gbgm-umc.org/umw/2003/action_ivorycoast.html [accessed 5 May 2011] Roughly 200,000 children
throughout the Crime
and Society Dr. Robert Winslow, A Comparative Criminology Tour of the
World, www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/rwinslow/africa/cote_divoire.html [accessed 5 May 2011] CHILDREN - There are large populations of
street children in the cities. The Fraternite Matin newspaper reported in 2000 that the number of
street children in the country was 200,000, of which 50,000 were in When A Sentence To Jail Can Be A
Sentence To Death UN Integrated Regional Information Networks IRIN, Dimbokro, 17 May 2005 www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportID=54460 [accessed 5 May 2011] Dozen or so minors being held,
most of whom are street children.
During a short guided tour, it became clear that many detainees were
being held without trial, in extended provisional custody. A female street vendor of unlabeled
medicine had been in custody for 2 years; a 12-year-old boy was thrown in
prison a year ago for smoking cannabis and had never seen his parents or a
lawyer since Stop The Use Of Child Soldiers In Amnesty International, AI Index: AFR 31/003/2005, Date:
18/03/2005 [accessed 5 May 2011] There must be swift disarmament,
demobilization, rehabilitation and reintegration (DDRR) of child soldiers. It
must include specific arrangements for children, ensuring health care,
education, skills training, family-tracing and reunification, and responding
to the particular needs of girls UNICEF
Calls For Protection Of Vulnerable Children In United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF Press Release www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=92664 [accessed 5 May 2011] In Planning Intervention Strategies for Child Laborers in Creative Associates International, Inc., Planning Intervention
Strategies for Child Laborers in www.beps.net/publications/ECACLcotedivoirePlanning2002.pdf [accessed 30 January 2011] [page 61]
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CHILDREN - A large
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