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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
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the Resources
for Teachers attached to this website. ***
FEATURED ARTICLE *** Street children
remain a common sight in Greece Deutsche Presse-Agentur (German Press Agency) DPA, streetchildrennews.wordpress.com/2007/10/28/street-children-remain-a-common-sight-in-greece/ [accessed 17 January
2017] Carrying a bag full
of lighters, key chains and other trinkets, 11-year-old Marenella
walks through the cafe-lined streets of Two streets away, Iliana, 10, and her younger sister Christina roam from one table to another in a bid to sell flowers and tissues. "I went to school today and I am sent out every afternoon to help bring in money. My sister is always with me and together we help support our younger brothers and sisters," says Iliana. Children of the
Stoplights Discarded Lies,
January 14, 2005 www.windsofchange.net/archives/006160.html [accessed 7 February
2011] In ***
ARCHIVES *** Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61651.htm [accessed 9 February
2020] CHILDREN
- The
law provides for free and compulsory education for a minimum of nine years.
According to the 2001 census, 99.4 percent of school‑age children
attended school, and most children completed secondary education. However,
noncompliance with the compulsory education requirement was a significant
problem in the Romani community. Research conducted by the Aghlaia Kyriakou state hospital
showed that 63 percent of Romani children did not attend school. Violence against
children occurred, particularly against street
children. The law prohibits the mistreatment of children and sets penalties
for violators, and the government generally enforced these provisions
effectively. According to the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) and local NGOs, the
majority of street children
(often indigenous Roma or Albanian Roma) were exploited by family members who
forced them to work in the streets,
usually begging or selling small items. Concluding
Observations Of The Committee On The Rights Of The Child (CRC) - 2002 UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 1 February 2002 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/greece2002.html [accessed 7 February
2011] [72] The Committee
is concerned: (a) At the number
of children working and/or living on the street, and the numbers of Roma
children in particular; (b) At the lack of
access of these children to education and health services; (c) That young
children illegally in the State party are expelled from the country without a
process to examine what action would be in their best interests. CRC Concludes
Consideration Of Initial Report Of Greece UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child CRC, 29th session, 16 January 2002 www.unhchr.ch/huricane/huricane.nsf/0/9D22473B8A46585BC1256B440034C35C?opendocument [accessed 18 May
2011] The delegation said
that the situation of street children was a new phenomenon in Committee
On The Rights Of The Child - Summary Record Of The 754th Meeting UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child CRC, Twenty-ninth session, 16 January 2002 www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf/0/081658a351152d34c1256b7c004fe879?Opendocument [accessed 18 May
2011] [48] It was
regrettable that child beggars over 12 years of age were referred to the
courts, since it was the whole phenomenon of begging that needed to be
addressed. It was also regrettable
that street children who had entered The
Disappearance Of 502 Albanian Street Children
[PDF] International
Secretariat of The World Organisation
Against Torture OMCT, January 24, 2005 www.protectionproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/JHU_Journal_vol2_final.pdf [accessed 18 May
2011] [INTRODUCTION, P.29] As there was no answer
from the authorities, in March 2005, the Special Rapporteurs expressed to the
U.N. Commission on Human Rights their “concern for the children who are still
missing and exposed to a high risk of being exploited, trafficked or
re-trafficked” and “reiterated their interest in receiving the reply of the
Government to these allegations. The U.N. Human
Rights Committee in its concluding observations on Greece included this
reference: “(t)he State party should conduct a judicial investigation
concerning the approximately 500 children who went missing from the Aghia Varvara institution between 1998 and 2002 and
provide the Committee with information on the outcome. The facts above
show that there has been a lack of proper concern for the potential loss or
endangerment of hundreds of young innocent lives at the national level. To
provide better protection for children, in February 2006, the Governments of
Albania and Greece signed an assistance and protection agreement for the
repatriation of Albanian children victims of trafficking. This agreement
provides for the establishment of a national referral mechanism for the
registration of the trafficking victims, so that they can be voluntarily
returned, repatriated and referred to appropriate rehabilitation services and
other providers. The government of
Albania has not initiated any unilateral action to try to locate the missing
trafficked children. The Risk Group of
Unaccompanied Minor Migrants Dr. Eugenia M.
Markova, University of At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 18 May
2011] In a UNICEF Report
(2001), the life story of an 11-year-old Albanian boy, begging on the streets
of Comments on Greek Helsinki
Monitor GHM, Minority Rights Group - www.greekhelsinki.gr/bhr/english/articles/comments_on_gr_re_cecsr.doc [accessed 18 May
2011] The assertion that
the problem of street children is decreasing is puzzling because there appear
to be no accurate statistics as to the number of street children in Street
Children in Contemporary Panagiotis Altanis & Jim Goddard, "Children &
Society" Volume 18, Number 4, September 2004 ,
pp. 299-311(13), [John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.] www.ingentaconnect.com/content/jws/chi/2004/00000018/00000004/art00006 [accessed 18 May
2011] [Abstract] Overview of the problem of street children
in Special
Rapporteur Visits Jean-Miguel Petit,
Special Rapporteur, Press Release 11/17/2005 www.crin.org/violence/search/closeup.asp?infoID=6577 [accessed 18 May
2011] The situation of
Roma and Roma children is a concern. I visited a Roma settlement in which housing
conditions and sanitation are just not acceptable. Access to health and
education is limited or lacking and social programs are not providing
assistance to the community. The State should take specific measures to
improve the living conditions and the possibilities of development of Roma
communities to give to Roma children alternatives other than street work or
prostitution as survival strategies for them and their families. All
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