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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Business Hungary -
Shadows Of Poverty www.amcham.hu/businesshungary/17-08/articles/17-08_34.asp [Last access date
unavailable] ONE-TENTH OF
HUNGARIANS LIVE IN DESTITUTION - Despite the economic expansion following
the early 1990s, one million Hungarians live in abject poverty. The figure is
contrast to the majority who benefited from years of accelerated productivity
growth, soaring equity markets and relatively low unemployment rates. The
typical Hungarian family increased its net worth significantly as house
prices, stocks and wages rose. But quietly in the shadows is a sizeable
proportion of people who have been left behind, with little hope of catching
up in the near future. In ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2003 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2003/hungary.htm [accessed 8 February
2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Children work as beggars in urban areas, and also as
prostitutes, according to Budapest Police, although the scope of the problem
is unknown. Schools in ethnic Roma
communities are in markedly poorer condition, and according to UNICEF, less
than 2 percent of Roma children graduate from secondary school. Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61652.htm [accessed 9 February
2020] CHILDREN
- The government
was committed to children's rights. The law provides for compulsory
education, which was free through age 18 for children who were born after
1997. The Ministry of Education estimated that 95 percent of school‑age
children were enrolled in school, although the drop-out rate for Romani
children was much higher than for the overall student population. NGOs
reported that only 10 percent of Romani children complete high school,
compared to 80 percent of the general population. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 5 June 1998 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/hungary1998.html [accessed 8 February
2011] [14] While the Committee
notes with appreciation the measures taken by the State party, including the
adoption of government resolution No. 1093/1997 on a package of medium-term
measures intended to improve the living standards of the Roma population, it
remains concerned about the persistence of discriminatory practices against
this minority group. [34] The Committee
recommends that the State party envisage undertaking further measures to
prevent and redress unequal access to health services and to the education
system between the rural and urban population, and in particular to
facilitate the access of Roma children to health and education. The Committee
also recommends that health services and medical supplies be equally
distributed between and within the local governments. Schools and vocational
training should be made accessible to poor children and those living in rural
areas, especially children belonging to the Roma population. Budapest Portal ::
Meet Budapest - Municipality of Budapest english.budapest.hu/engine.aspx?page=meetbudapest#A3 [accessed 23 May
2011] III.
After the political changes (1990-)
- YOUTH PROTECTION - The Budapest Municipality offers homes for
children and young adults under state care. The number of child and youth protection
facilities is currently 34, providing residence, education and care to
children and youth aged 3 to 24. In 2001 the Budapest Municipality budgeted
6.1 billion forints (25.4 million euros) for child and youth protection. This
included 1.5 billion forints (6.2 million euros) spent on renewal and
development. The Budapest Youth Fund was set up in 1992. Its main task is to
handle youth problems and support meaningful leisure activities, summer camps
and multilateral youth projects of the European Union. Feeding
World Job and Food
Bank www.wjfb.org/projects/feeding_hungary.htm [accessed 23 May
2011] It was established
that a A
Dynamic Social Policy For Children And Adolescents In Towns And Cities Parliamentary
Assembly Social, Health and Family Affairs Committee, Rapporteur: Mrs Edeltraud Gatterer, assembly.coe.int/Documents/WorkingDocs/Doc01/EDOC9192.htm Click [here]
to access the article. Its URL is not
displayed because of its length [accessed 9 Aug 2013] STREET
CHILDREN 27. It is difficult
to estimate the actual numbers of street children or children on the streets
and any figures offered have to be treated with caution and as a probable
underestimate. Some figures are
available – for example, the figure in In
Depth Study - Street Children www.fides.org/eng/approfondire/2004/bstrada_01.html [accessed 23 May
2011] IN
Abandoned Children
And Infants Justin D. Long,
Monday Morning Reality Check, 1998 At one time this article
had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 23 May
2011] MORE
THAN 22,000 ORPHANED AND ABANDONED CHILDREN are in state custody in Székesfehérvár in perspective:
Roma and housing in Csilla Dér
and Betty Eberle, European Roma Rights Centre ERRC,
2 April 1998 www.errc.org/cikk.php?cikk=472 [accessed 23 May
2011] A wave of evictions
of Roma is presently taking place in Missionaries Offer
Good News To W. Evan Golder, United
Church News, June 2004 At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 23 May
2011] The 1 or 2 million
Roma in how, when and why -
Cameras In The Hands Of Some Of The City's Homeless People Dominic Hislop -- [A
project by Big Hope: Erhardt Miklós
/ Dominic Hislop] www.c3.hu/collection/homeless/store/howandwhy.html [accessed 23 May
2011] As the sociological
definition of homelessness covers a broad range of living situations, we
decided to distribute the cameras not only to people who were at the most
extreme case of sleeping rough, but also cameras were given to people
sleeping in overnight shelters, women's shelters, young people's shelters,
and the longer stay one month contract shelters. Innovations for the
elderly. A permanent shelter for elderly homeless in Miskolc Vera Gáthy, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social
Conflict Research at the At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 23 May
2011] [Page 3] THE IMPACT OF
INNOVATION
- The reason why rehabilitation has become so important is that with the
passage of time the age structure of homelessness has been undergoing
changes. There is a new batch of homeless: young people, who are
released from state foster care where they can stay up to the age of 24 and
then have to go out. They have no money, nowhere to go,
no jobs and immediately become homeless. All
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