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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 ARTICLE *** The plight of
Liberia’s street children Sam K Zinnah, TheLiberianTimes.com, Apr 10, 2006 At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 14 June
2011] CATEGORIES OF STREET
CHILDREN IN CAUSES OF STREET
CHILDREN
- The negative impact of street life on children is enormous. Many street
children lack basic rights such as education, family love, health care, good
food & safety. Other disadvantages include exposure to drugs, the risk of
being knocked down by uninsured cars, harsh punishment for little offences,
the early arrival of adulthood, association with the wrong people &
criminals and lost of family ties. Another big problem is exploitation.
Street children are most time exploited by adults who hire them to work for
wages payable at the end of the month but often the contracts are terminated
even before the end of the month without good reason and the children remain
unpaid. ***
ARCHIVES *** Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61577.htm [accessed 9 February
2020] CHILDREN
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There were thousands of children living on the streets of [Note: The next two links should lead to identical files … however they
do not … ] Concluding Observations
of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 4 June 2004 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/liberia2004.html [accessed 14 June
2011] 56. The Committee
welcomes the State party’s efforts to rehabilitate the educational system
that was massively destructed by the civil war. It further takes note of the
“Back to School” program that has already brought many children back to
school. However, the Committee is concerned about the continuing low rates of
enrolment, the significant disparities of enrolment and literacy rates
between boys and girls and the overall low quality and hidden costs of
education. 62. The Committee shares
the State party’s concern about the prevalence of child prostitution,
particularly in urban areas, and is further concerned at the lack of data
thereon. ‘Put Street
Children Back in the Classroom,’ CWI Boss Urges Jacqueline Dennis,
The Analyst ( [accessed 14 June
2011] Mr. Teah disclosed that the (CWI), which is located in Squeezing in an
education UN Integrated
Regional Information Networks IRIN, www.irinnews.org/report/64547/liberia-squeezing-in-an-education [accessed 10 March
2015] Liberian youths are
packing The government of
President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf aims to
dramatically increase the country’s enrollment rate through the Education for
All law that was enacted in 2004. "The
enforcement is getting the results we want. Children are now coming from the
farms, off the street and into the classrooms," Sirleaf
recently told reporters. Information about
Street Children - Liberia [DOC] This report is taken
from “A Civil Society Forum for Anglophone West Africa on Promoting and
Protecting the Rights of Street Children”, 21-24 October 2003, At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 14 June
2011] Street children
allegedly face more attacks and abuses from law enforcers than they face from
civilians. As such, protection/
advocacy groups must be determined to engage law enforcers in a dialogue to
try and establish a working relationship.
Street children (with strong survival skills) are vulnerable to
recruitment by drug dealers and armed forces. Many street children from Consortium for
Street Children – Consortium for
Street Children 2004 -- Based on a paper submitted by At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 14 June
2011] Amnesty
International, 18/03/2005 -- AI Index: AFR 31/003/2005 www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/AFR31/003/2005/en/6ad731e1-d50a-11dd-8a23-d58a49c0d652/afr310032005en.html [accessed 14 June
2011] THE USE OF CHILD
SOLDIERS IN Report by the UN
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, 2 - 9 July 2004 [accessed 14 June
2011] B. COORDINATION -
TASKFORCE ON STREET CHILDREN RECONVENES ACTIVITIES - There are a small but growing number of children who are being
committed to the Monrovia Central Prison. The prison currently does not have
separate facilities for children. Don Bosco Homes And
Street Children John T. Monibah, Salesians of Don Bosco www.salesians.org.uk/html/street_children.html [accessed 14 June
2011] www.salesians.org.uk/salesians-articles/street-children.html [accessed 22
December 2016] Don Bosco Homes in
Liberia has worked for Monrovia's street, since 1992. At present we are in
contact with some 500 street children. Our outreach workers visit twenty
police depots daily to intervene on behalf of juveniles in jail. In a country
where there are virtually no state-run juvenile correction centers, the
situation is getting worse as more take to the streets. Address to the
Security Council meeting on Children in Armed Conflict Guest speech by
Wilmot from www.unicef.org/specialsession/press/02esp08scwilmot.htm [accessed 14 June
2011] Today as I speak,
the children of Protection of
children affected by armed conflict Report of the
Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Children and Armed
Conflict (A /53/482) [accessed 14 June
2011] 51. The categories
of children identified as having special protection needs include ex-combatant
youth, refugee and internally displaced children, sexually abused girls and
unaccompanied and street children. The following were identified as the key
challenges requiring initiatives: (a) Empowering
families, economically and socially, to resume their roles in bringing up and
supporting children, thus moving away from a policy of heavy dependence on
institutional care. At present, many unaccompanied, displaced and orphaned
children are resident either on the streets or in orphanages, many of which
are of dubious quality. All
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