Prevalence,
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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 *** Aids
orphans abandoned on Basildon Peta, The
Independent, www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/aids-orphans-abandoned-on-lesothos-streets-to-die-alone-522867.html [accessed 13 June
2011] [accessed 22
December 2016] In Nazareth Haphloane and other districts of Lesotho, perhaps an even
worse reality has emerged: very young Aids orphans are being abandoned on the
streets. Relatives are either incapable of looking after them or do not want
to be "overburdened by someone's HIV-positive child who is going to die
anyway" The
Protection Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/lesotho.doc [accessed 2009] FACTORS THAT
CONTRIBUTE TO THE TRAFFICKING INFRASTRUCTURE - In *** ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/lesotho.htm [accessed 18
February 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - A January 2004 study by UNICEF, Save the Children,
and the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare estimates the number of
HIV/AIDS orphans to be 92,000. Children in families affected by the
disease often drop out of school to become caregivers of sick parents or care
for younger siblings. Children also
work as domestic workers, car washers, taxi fare collectors, and street
vendors. Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61576.htm [accessed 9 February
2020] CHILDREN
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Familial stress, poverty, the spread of HIV/AIDS, and divorce led to a rise
in child homelessness and abandonment, creating a growing number of street
children and families headed by children. Street children were constrained
due to their relative lack of finances from access to government services,
such as medical care and school. Street children were not informed about
their rights or access to government services. There were no reports of abuse
of street children by security forces. SECTION
6 WORKER RIGHTS
– [d] Many urban street children worked in the informal sector. Most jobs
performed by children were gender‑specific: boys as young as ages four
and five were livestock herders, carried packages for shoppers, washed cars,
and collected fares for minibus taxis; girls were domestic servants; teenage
girls (and a few boys) were involved in prostitution; and both boys and girls
worked as street vendors. 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/lesotho2001.html [accessed 18
February 2011] [55] Labor laws regulating
child labor do exist in the State party, but the Committee notes with concern
the high and increasing number of children, especially boys, employed as
animal herders, inter alia, and children employed as street traders, porters
and in textile and garment factories. The Committee is concerned, in
addition, at the number of children working in potentially dangerous
conditions and at the lack of monitoring and supervision of the conditions in
which they work. [59] The Committee
notes with concern the increasing number of children living and/or working on
the streets in The
Protection Project - Zambia [DOC] The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/zambia.doc [accessed 2009] TRAFFICKING
ROUTES
– Consortium for
Street Children – Lesotho Consortium for Street
Children 2004 At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 25 September
2011] The age expectancy
in Access to Education
- Support children in China, Lesotho and Madagascar United Society for
the Propagation of the Gospel USPG www.uspg.org.uk/article.php?article_id=33 [accessed 13 June
2011] Education will
tackle HIV/AIDS United Society for
the Propagation of the Gospel USPG www.uspg.org.uk/our_work/our_work_lesotho.php [Last access date
unavailable] Between 70 and 100
people are dying every day in The Tzu Chi
Foundation taipei.tzuchi.org.tw/tzquart/book/book2/6d.htm [accessed 13 June
2011] In Seduction,
Sale & Slavery: Trafficking In Women & Children For Sexual
Exploitation In Jonathan Martens, Maciej ‘Mac’ Pieczkowski &
Bernadette van Vuuren-Smyth, International
Organization for Migration IOM, Pretoria SA, May 2003 At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 25
September 2011] EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - The major findings may be summarized as follows: In Lesotho, children
from rural areas gravitate to Maseru to escape domestic violence, and the
effects of HIV/AIDS. As street children, they are coerced or forcibly
abducted by white men before being taken across the border with the consent
of border officials to border towns and asparagus farms in the Eastern Free
State. There they are held captive in private houses where they are sexually
and sadistically assaulted over several days by small groups of men. These
children are finally returned to the border, or deposited on the streets of
towns in the Eastern Free State to find their own way home. Street children
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