Prevalence,
Abuse & Exploitation of Street Children In the first decade of the 21st
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CAUTION: The following links
and accompanying text have been culled from the web to illuminate the
situation in Maldives. Some of these
links may lead to websites that present allegations that are unsubstantiated
or even false. No attempt has been made to validate their authenticity
or to verify their content. 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. ***
ARCHIVES *** Human Rights
Reports » 2008 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2008/sca/119137.htm [accessed 10
February 2020] CHILDREN
- Education is not compulsory, but there was universal
access to free primary education. What crimes have
these children committed? Mohamed Shaheeb and Moosa Latheef, Huvaas Special Report, 26 December 2001 At one time this article
had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 19 June
2011] Fareeda's crime was using
drugs, and she was sentenced to six years imprisonment. Her child, Niusha is now one year old. The girl has barely taken her
first steps, and she needs decent food and a free environment so her brain
and body can develop. However she was forced to go to prison along with her
mother. At the age of one, what crime has Niusha
committed that she has to be in prison?
Niusha isn't the only one facing this
problem. Although there aren't many in this sort of situation, other
Maldivian children ar90 e in similar
circumstances. There are children growing up in prison because of the
criminal convictions of their mothers.
It is known that at present there are about half a dozen children in
prison with their mothers who are serving gaol
sentences. The age of the children ranges from six months to six years. These
children have to sleep on the same mattresses with their mothers and use the
same toilets as the other inmates. They receive milk and baby food. One of
the children is disabled. All
material used herein reproduced under the fair use exception of 17 USC § 107
for noncommercial, nonprofit, and educational use. PLEASE RESPECT COPYRIGHTS OF COMPONENT
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