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and accompanying text have been culled from the web to illuminate the
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
that are available on-line. Teachers Check out some of
the Resources
for Teachers attached to this website. ***
FEATURED ARTICLES *** The ATD Gérald Bitoun,
Share International, April 1999 www.shareintl.org/archives/homelessness/hl-gbatd.htm [accessed 15 May
2011] A report on
homelessness and poverty in HOMELESSNESS IN
FRANCE Population: 60 million Unemployed: 3 million Estimated
homeless: 1 million Background Information
on Global Themes - Children Compass - A Manual
on Human Rights Education with Young people eycb.coe.int/compass/en/chapter_5/5_1.html [accessed 15 May
2011] www.eycb.coe.int/compass/en/chapter_5/5_1.html [accessed 29
November 2016] THE STATE OF
CHILDREN: FACTS AND FIGURES CHILDREN IN
EUROPE...
- In France, the phenomenon of street children began to constitute a
significant problem in the 1980s. Some authorities consider that there might be as many as 10,000 street children,
although others estimate that the number is much lower. ***
ARCHIVES *** Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61648.htm [accessed 8 February
2020] CHILDREN
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government was strongly committed to children's rights and welfare; it amply
funded systems of public education and medical care. The Ministry for Family
Affairs oversees implementation of the government's programs for children. Public schooling is
provided free through the age of 18, and education is compulsory for citizens
and non-citizens between the ages 6 to 16. However, after the October unrest,
the prime minister proposed that some youth be allowed to leave school at age
14 to enter into apprenticeships. Although not compulsory, preschool and
kindergarten for children under age six is free and widely available.
According to INSEE, during the school year 2003-2004, the percentage of
school age children who attended school was 100 percent for ages 3 to 13; but
the percentage dropped to 99.6, 98.6, and 97.3 percent for ages 14, 15, and
16, respectively. Most children completed the equivalent of high school.
There was no evidence of significant differences between the attendance of
girls and boys at the primary, secondary, and postsecondary levels. France National
Report 2004 For The European Observatory On Homelessness: Statistics Update [PDF] Elisabeth Maurel, European Federation of National Organisations Working with the Homeless FEANTSA, November
2004 www.docstoc.com/docs/40558086/FRANCE-NATIONAL-REPORT-2004-FOR-THE-EUROPEAN-OBSERVATORY-ON [accessed 9 Aug 2013] The survey uses the
concept of “houseless”, which is broader than “shelterless”
because it includes people who drift from one form of shelter to another
without necessarily living on the street. The operative definition used was:
anyone sleeping in a location not meant for human habitation or taken in
charge by an organization providing accommodation free or for a small
co-payment. The range of locations
not meant for human habitation includes, for example, public spaces, the
street, gardens, tube stations, mainline railway stations, airports, derelict
buildings, huts, caves, warehouses, factories, cars, trains, cellars, car
parks, etc., but excludes improvised shelters (temporary structures, building
site sheds, immobilized caravans, etc.) which are to do with housing
deficiency rather than being shelterless. The survey
estimated the number of people who had used either a temporary accommodation
or meal site service at least once during one week in January 2001 as 93 000
adults (and 16 000 children), of whom 70 000 were houseless as defined above. Street children
Statistics Council of risksthatchildrenface.wordpress.com/street-children/ [accessed 9 Aug 2013] Children Living on
the Street KELLY, P.J.; GRAJCER,
B.; RIGATO, F. D. Children Living on the Street. Online Brazilian Journal of
Nursing (OBJN_ISSN 1676-4285), v.2, n.2, 2003 At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 15 May
2011] While
the magnitude of the problem tends to be greater in less
developed countries, there are still 7,000 street children in the Industrialized
Countries - Commentary The Progress of
Nations 1998 www.unicef.org/pon98/indust3.htm [accessed 4 June
2019] Praying for
France's street children Janey L. DeMeo, Orphans First - France's street children, 12 Aug
2003 associate.com/groups/orphansfirst/0::108read.html [accessed 15 May
2011] Street children are
everywhere---even in All
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