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interest to you. You might be
interested in exploring how children got there, how they survive, and how
some manage to leave the street.
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Madagascar: Where
Children Dream of Being Gangsters UN Integrated
Regional Information Networks IRIN, 2 May 2008 reliefweb.int/report/madagascar/madagascar-where-children-dream-being-gangsters [accessed 10 March
2015] Unlike the
thousands of other homeless children in the Madagascan capital of The two
11-years-olds, like the capital's other homeless people, sleep in the open,
but the approaching southern hemisphere winter is simply a different kind of
discomfort to the summer cyclones that lash the island nation. "Sometimes the street vendors let us
sleep by their fires. The grannies who sleep on the pavements know us; they
know we have our own money and we won't steal from them, so they let us
stay," said Tovo. Young male vendors
tend to hawk cheap wares like tennis shoes, T-shirts and perfumes from Asia,
while middle-aged women sell fruit, vegetables or food cooked on the
sidewalks, but they all live in their stalls and sleep where they sell. Tovo and Jiva, taking time off from begging to kick a ragged
football around in the street outside the hotel, said when they grow up they
want to be gangsters. "Nobody pushes the gangsters around," Jiva said. ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/madagascar.htm [accessed 19
February 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Children also work in bars and nightclubs, and as
porters and welders. Commercial sexual
exploitation is a problem in most of CURRENT
GOVERNMENT POLICIES AND PROGRAMS TO ELIMINATE THE WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR - The government
recently supplied school materials to primary school children as part of the
Education for All program. The World
Bank funded a 7-year program in Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61578.htm [accessed 10
February 2020] CHILDREN
- In
June 2004 the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the government launched a
three-year campaign to improve birth registration rates. The country has no
uniform birth registration system, and unregistered children were not
eligible to attend school or obtain health care services. A 2000 UNICEF study
found that approximately 2.5 million children under 17 were not registered. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 3 October 2003 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/madagascar2003.html [accessed 19
February 2011] [55] The Committee
notes the challenging socio-economic situation and the adoption, in 2003, of
a chapter on special protection in the poverty reduction strategy paper. However, it is concerned about the
increasingly high number of children who do not enjoy their right to an
adequate standard of living, including children belonging to poor families,
street children and children living in remote rural areas. [63] The Committee is
concerned at the increasing number of street children and at the lack of a
systematic and comprehensive strategy to address this situation and to
provide these children with adequate assistance. In addition, the Committee
notes the establishment of several villages for the reinsertion of vulnerable
families. MSF Curtails
Homeless Assistance In Favor Of Emergency Work UN Integrated
Regional Information Networks IRIN, [accessed 10 March
2015] When we started in
1993, we intended to help those children and families who were living on the
street but, over the years, we have come to realize that there are many poor
families in desperate need of assistance Reports to Treaty
Bodies Committee on the
Rights of the Child (CRC), 2003 At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 16 June
2011] The Committee
further expressed concern about the lack of free primary education; the
increasing number of street children and the lack of a strategy to address
their needs; the increasing number of child victims of commercial sexual
exploitation, including prostitution and pornography; the lack of judges and
criminal courts for minors; the sentencing of children aged 16 and 17 as
adults; the limited possibilities for the rehabilitation and reintegration of
juveniles following judicial proceedings. Adelson Razafy, journalist in At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 16 June
2011] Blackened by
exhaust fumes, the tunnel under Tana’s city center serves as a dormitory for
children, especially during the rainy season. This Months Letter
Home From Médecins Sans Frontières At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 16 June
2011] More than 2,500
street children now receive regular medical and social follow-up through the
program. Some of them are referred on to a network of doctors providing free
medical care under Médecins Sans Frontières supervision. Médecins
Sans Frontières is working with children held in
three juvenile detention centers and a prison. The main focus this year is on
improving the sanitary conditions. Médecins Sans Frontières has been working in All
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