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Team Children and Youth in action At one time this article had been archived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 ***
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- 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At one time this article had been archived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 10 October 2012] 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] 8. STREET CHILDREN - A large number
of street children are found in the cities of All
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