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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
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the Resources
for Teachers attached to this website. ***
FEATURED ARTICLES *** Extra-judicial
Executions Of Street Children And Youth Organisation Mondiale
Contre la Torture (World Organisation Against
Torture) OMCT, www.omct.org/rights-of-the-child/urgent-interventions/nicaragua/2002/07/d15867/ [accessed 27 June
2011] According to the
information collected by Casa Alianza Nicaragua, at
least 97 (ninety-seven) children and young Nicaraguans less than 23 years of
age met violent deaths during the last eight months of the year 2001.
According to the reported information, 74% were young boys and youths,
constituting the vast majority of the victims. 32% of the victims were less
than 17 years of age The Children of Christoph Grandt, www.christoph-grandt.com/children.html [accessed 27 June
2011] They have to spend
5 Córdobas for a tin of glue. They live on the
streets of Managua together with some 15.000 children between 7 & 14
years of age. Ten times higher is the number of those who, although having a
place to live, are living depending on survival strategies. The Precarious
Situation Of Adrean Scheid,
MESOAMERICA Institute for Central American Studies, January 1995 pangaea.org/street_children/latin/nicaragu.htm [accessed 27 June
2011] Pablo and Walter
stand outside of the bakery behind the Supermarket La Fe, begging for money
from the middle-class patrons who enter. Their clothes are torn and dirty,
and the calluses on their feet testify that they have never owned a pair of
shoes. Although they are both ten years old, neither one has ever attended
school. ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on the
Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/nicaragua.htm [accessed 12
December 2010] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - In urban areas, children work in the streets selling
merchandise, cleaning car windows, or begging. Some children are forced by their parents
to beg, and some are “rented” out by their parents to organized groups of
beggars. Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61734.htm [accessed 10
February 2020] SECTION
6 WORKER RIGHTS
– [d] The government reported that child labor occurred in both urban and
rural areas, primarily in the informal sector, including family ventures. In Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 3 June 2005 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/nicaragua2005.html [accessed 12
December 2010] [66] The Committee is
concerned at the growing number of street children living in the State party,
especially in [68] The Committee
is concerned at the endemic abuse of substances among street children and
members of youth gangs. From streets of Monsy Alvarado, The
Record ( www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-124765463.html [partially accessed
27 June 2011 - access restricted] Inhijambia was formed in
2000, amid a growing number of children from broken homes living in cardboard
boxes, under bridges and under the remnants of earthquake-destroyed
buildings, Aburto said. The youngsters are known as
"huelepegas" -- "glue sniffers"
-- because they are addicted to glue.
They wear ripped clothes and walk barefoot, and may have been sexually
or physically abused by relatives, Aburto said. "If these
children don't come home with money they are not treated well, and that makes
them turn to the street, where they believe they will have a better
life," Aburto explained. "But their
reality is very different." Street Children And
Juvenile Justice In Nicaragua Casa Alianza www.eldis.org/assets/Docs/17497.html [accessed 27 June
2011] www.streetchildrenresources.org/resources/street-children-and-juvenile-justice-in-nicaragua/ [accessed 26
December 2016] This report
provides a brief analysis of the situation of street children in Nicaragua,
and the reasons for their arrival and prolonged existence on the streets. It
examines the existing legal processes, terms and guarantees of national laws
relating to juvenile justice in Nicaragua, primarily the Special Criminal
Justice System for Adolescents, to identify the gaps and shortcomings that
permit rights violations to occur. Child Labor -
Regional Activities : Latin America and the The World Bank Group At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 27 June
2011] Given the economic
growth in the Latin American and the ¡Sí a la Vida! - The Jonathan Roise, co-founder of Si a la Vida www.asalv.org/index.php/how-this-project-works [accessed 11
Aug 2013] www.asalv.org/index.php/about-si-a-la-vida [accessed 26
December 2016] The process begins
when the children are still in the street. Our field workers seek to gain
their confidence by developing supportive, nonjudgmental relationships. They
listen to the kids and ask questions to gently prod the child into talking
and thinking about what caused his separation from his family and reflecting
on the ugly reality of life in the street. Through a rudimentary process of
consciousness-raising, the child is encouraged to realize that he has the
power to decide to change his life, and that there is a place where he can do
so. Once in the
residential center in The
Protection Project - Nicaragua [DOC] The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/nicaragua.doc [Last accessed 2009] NONGOVERNMENTAL AND
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION RESPONSES - TESIS, the Association for Workers for
Education, Health and Social Integration, was founded in 1992. TESIS has
assisted 350 street children through programs that try to reestablish contact
with family members and provide alternatives to life on the streets. TESIS
also educates the children on HIV/AIDS issues. All
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