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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
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
for Teachers attached to this website. ***
FEATURED ARTICLE *** Situation Of Minors
In The Organization of
American States OAS Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, "Report
On The Situation Of Human Rights In The Dominican Republic", 7 October
1999 -- OEA/Ser.L/V/II.104, Doc. 49 rev. 1 www.cidh.org/countryrep/DominicanRep99/Chapter11.htm [accessed 8 May
2011] E. CHILD
PROSTITUTION - 425 In the ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/dominican-republic.htm [accessed 2 February
2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Children also work as street vendors and shoe
shiners. Some children also work as
domestic servants in homes of third parties.
Children from poor families are sometimes “adopted” into the homes of
other families, often serving under a kind of indentured servitude, while
other poor and homeless children are sometimes forced to beg and sell goods
on the streets. Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61725.htm [accessed 8 February
2020] NATIONAL/RACIAL/ETHNIC
MINORITIES - The IOM estimated that approximately 650
thousand Haitian immigrants--or 7.5 percent of the country's
population--lived in shantytowns or sugarcane work camps known as bateyes,
which were harsh environments with limited or no electricity, usually no
running water, and no adequate schooling. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 26 January 2001 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/dominicanrepublic2001.html [accessed 27
February 2011] [23] In the light
of article 2 and other related articles of the Convention, the Committee
recommends that the State party take, as a matter of priority, effective
measures to ensure that children of Haitian origin born in the State party's
territory or belonging to Haitian migrant families have the same access to
housing, education and health services as other children. The Committee also
recommends that the State party strengthen and increase measures to reduce
economic and social disparities, including between urban and rural areas; to
prevent discrimination against the most disadvantaged groups of children,
such as girls, children with disabilities, children living in and/or working
on the streets; and children living in rural areas; and to guarantee their
full enjoyment of all the rights as recognized in the Convention. [45] Concern is
expressed at the large number of children living and/or working on the
streets. Dominican Tourism
Police will ID vendors, rescues street children Dominican Today, www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2007/9/19/25492/Dominican-Tourism-Police-will-ID-vendors-rescues-street-children [accessed 8 May
2011] He said those who
result positive in the dope tests will not be given an ID, and instead be
taken to a detox center, so they can again work as vendors. "This
program we are going to develop will be with the utmost possible respect and
using a personal doctor, orientation and psychologists so they understand the
importance of living a completely wholesome life. The official also
said the program to rescue minors who roam the streets, beaches and avenues
advances, and the children are taken to shelters operated by the Office of
the First Lady and other government agencies. He said the program will also
include Boca Chica, Juan Dolio and other places
tourists frequent by the thousands. America/ Dominican
Republic - “Yo También” R.Z., Agenzia Fides 2004-04-27 www.fides.org/aree/news/newsdet.php?idnews=2195&lan=eng [accessed 8 May
2011] Click [here]
to access the article. Its URL is not
displayed because of its length [accessed 28
November 2016] Nearly all the
children who come to the Yo también
Home are in very poor health. “The most frequent diseases include: parasites,
hearing defects, conjunctivitis, bronchitis and asthma, TB gonorrhoea, syphilis and cancer, trauma due to violence
or accidents, broken limbs, leukaemia, hernia, anaemia, AIDS, hepatitis b, etc. Many suffer from
anxiety, emotional disturbance, neurosis, guilty complex, lack of
concentration, trauma from sexual abuse and therefore sexual problems, brain
damage, intolerance, aggressiveness, regression, many are prone to glue
sniffing and alcohol abuse. Traffickers Target
Haitian Children BBC News, 11 August,
2002 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2187241.stm [accessed 8 May
2011] Traffickers on either
side of the shared border smuggle the youngsters into the Street Children of
the Dominican Republic [mp3] World Vision Report www.worldvision.org/worldvision/radio.nsf/0/539826132610670E87256E4F002A334C?OpenDocument [accessed 8 May
2011] Thousands of
children in the Committee On The Rights
Of The Child (CRC) Initial Report Of The UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child Press Release, 24 January 2001 www.unhchr.ch/huricane/huricane.nsf/0/C8A148C41578B611C12569DF002EFAA6?opendocument [accessed 8 May
2011] The Treaties and
Reports to Treaty Bodies “For the Record
1997” Vol.4 At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 8 May
2011] Concern was also
expressed over ... reports received on the occurrence of child labour and
child exploitation, including sexual exploitation; the increasing number of
street children; the low rate of school enrolment ... Protection Project
- Country Report [DOC] The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/dominican.doc [accessed 2009] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - Haitian girls
have been trafficked along the border with the All
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