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FEATURED ARTICLES *** Homes for street people Verenaisi Raicola,
The This article has been archived by World Street
Children News and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 13 May 2011] In He said those who wanted to establish missions for street people should promote the strengthening and development of families as a proactive solution. Mr Khan said the
increase in the number of street children indicated the failure of Fiji's
education and economic systems and the lack of social planning in developing
a safety net for them. Another looming issue was the care and
protection of older street persons. Psychotherapist Selina
Kuruleca, who echoed similar sentiments, said there
was an urgent need to monitor those that operated homes for street
kids. She said professional counselling was needed for the street
people. Nadi wants street kids
out The This article has been archived by World
Street Children News and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 13 May 2011] The "We want them
off our streets. "Anyone coming in to Nadi
to shop should be given space to move freely and not be harassed or hassled
by these street boys. "Shoppers coming into Nadi
don’t need street kids to be harassing them while they shop. ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2005 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor [PDF] www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2005/tda2005.pdf [accessed
10 November 2010] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Statistics on the number of working children under
the age of 15 in Other children,
especially those that are homeless, work in the informal sector and on the
streets. Children shine shoes, collect bottles, run
errands for restaurants, repair cars, and work as domestics in homes.
Children on the streets are susceptible to commercial sexual exploitation and
are lured into the commercial sex industry by both local and foreign adults
wishing to profit from the pornography trade. Human Rights
Reports » 2006 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2006/78773.htm [accessed
5 February 2011] CHILDREN
- The
government devoted 18 percent of the national budget to education and also
worked to improve children's health and welfare. School is mandatory until
age 15, but the inability of some families to pay school fees and bus fares
limited attendance for some children. There was no significant difference
between the school enrollment rates for boys and girls. The government
provided free medical care for children at public health centers and
hospitals, including immunizations in primary schools. Corporal punishment
was common both in homes and in schools, despite a Ministry of Education
policy forbidding it in the classroom. Increasing urbanization, overcrowding,
and the breakdown of traditional community and extended family-based
structures led to an increasing incidence of child abuse. Multiple reports
suggested that child prostitution increased during the year. Child
prostitution was evident in poverty-stricken urban areas and among homeless
urban youth (see section 5, Trafficking). Urban migration and the subsequent
breakdown of community structures, children from outer islands living with
relatives while attending high school, and homelessness all appeared to be
factors that increased a child's chance of being exploited for commercial
sex. Increasing
urbanization led to more children working as casual laborers, often with no
safeguards against abuse or injury. Homes for street people Verenaisi Raicola,
The This article has been archived by World
Street Children News and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 13 May 2011] In He said those who
wanted to establish missions for street people should promote the
strengthening and development of families as a proactive solution. Mr Khan said the
increase in the number of street children indicated the failure of Fiji's
education and economic systems and the lack of social planning in developing
a safety net for them. Another looming
issue was the care and protection of older street persons. Psychotherapist Selina
Kuruleca, who echoed similar sentiments, said there
was an urgent need to monitor those that operated homes for street kids. She said professional counselling was
needed for the street people. SPG and Beggars [DOC] [access information unavailable] Asking the ‘why’
question is a little more difficult. Why are they on the streets? Why can’t
they get a job? Perhaps we should be asking the more fundamental question:
Why is there poverty? Why is a society like Fiji
well versed in communal living and sharing, and affirmed by the teachings of
religion, allow the cycle of poverty to continue right in our own city? Report of the Special Rapporteur on the
sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, Ms. Ofelia Calcetas-Santos - Addendum UN Economic and Social Council, Commission
On Human Rights, Fifty-sixth session, 27 December 1999 www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/0/4aeb5780d6b8516e802568960053e092?Opendocument [accessed 13 May 2011] VII. CONCLUSIONS AND
RECOMMENDATIONS 104. The Special
Rapporteur is disturbed that the contagion of commercial exploitation of
children does not seem to have spared even a relatively isolated country like
Recommendations of the Children's Forum in Pacific Consultation on Violence Against
Children, www.crin.org/violence/search/closeup.asp?infoID=6372 [accessed 13 May 2011] The Pacific region
held a sub-regional Consultation on Violence against Children in A Missionary Amongst Street Children in Fr. Stephen Cuyos,
MSC podcast, 08 June 2005 podcast.stephencuyos.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19&Itemid=2 [accessed 13 May 2011] In this podcast you
will meet Mark, a Belgian missionary of the Sacred Heart who did pastoral
work with street children for 21 months in Worst Forms of Child Labour Data Global March Against Child Labour beta.globalmarch.org/worstformsreport/world/fiji.html [accessed 12 October 2012] CHILD
PROSTITUTION AND PORNOGRAPHY - Street children in Couple cares for street kids Aqela Lalakato,
Monday, May 28, 2007 This article has been archived by World
Street Children News and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 13 May 2011] At 17, Alifereti found himself a job in Nadi
but the street was still home. "When I found a job I was still a street
kid," he said. "It amazes me
sometimes to be working among other people who were also living on the
street." Though living on a meagre income and a limited education, Alifereti dreamt of a decent life. He finds himself fortunate to have
travelled to other countries while working on a container ship for nine
years. At 59, married with
a 25-year-old daughter, he finds his calling in the ministry a divine
one. "People living on the
streets have so much to tell, if only someone cares to listen. Street kids secure jobs May 24, 2007 This article has been archived by World
Street Children News and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 13 May 2011] "While the
people living on the streets have their own unique story on why fate has
dealt them an unfair hand, most of them claim they have been abandoned by
their families," Adi Laufitu
said. "They wished their
circumstances were better and they didn’t like what they had become, but they
had no choice," she said Police monitor kids on the street The This article has been archived by World
Street Children News and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 13 May 2011] Police are working
with the Lautoka City Council to ensure that street
kids are rehabilitated and kept out of trouble. West police chief Emori Laqai said his officers
in Lautoka were co-operating with the local
municipality to ensure that street kids do not break the law but are also
stopped from using city facilities for shelter. Senior
Superintendent Laqai said while other stakeholders
were looking at the rehabilitation of the kids, it was the duty of the police
to see that law and order was not compromised. SSP Laqai said a
committee at the Lautoka Police Station, headed by
the officer-in-charge Rusiate Saini,
was looking into the issue. He said
the main priority was for the boys not to break the law. Nadi wants street kids
out The This article has been archived by World
Street Children News and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 13 May 2011] The "We want them
off our streets. "Anyone coming
in to Nadi to shop should be given space to move
freely and not be harassed or hassled by these street boys. "Shoppers coming into Nadi don’t need street kids to be harassing them while
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