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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 ARTICLE *** Finding Jewels In
The Gutter Ana Swierstra Bie, Share
International, April 1999 www.shareintl.org/archives/homelessness/hl-asb-findingjewels.html [accessed 29 June
2011] ARNE SKARPSNO AND
HIS WIFE, GERD, HAVE SPENT ELEVEN YEARS MAKING MEALS AND DISTRIBUTING THEM TO
THOSE LIVING ON THE STREETS OF OSLO, NORWAY - AND HAVE
FOUND A SOURCE OF LOVE LIKE NO OTHER - Eleven years ago pensioner Arne Skarpsno discovered that while institutions were closed
for the summer many drug addicts, glue-sniffers, prostitutes, alcoholics and
other homeless people were actually starving on the streets of Oslo. The
impulse to do something was strong. Other people went off on holiday, but
Arne and his wife Gerd put their camping table and
lots of home-made sandwiches in the car and drove to a place in the city
where addicts usually hang out. ***
ARCHIVES *** Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61667.htm [accessed 10
February 2020] CHILDREN
- The government
was strongly committed to children's rights and welfare; it amply funded
systems of education and medical care. The government
provides free education for children through the postsecondary level. Education
is compulsory for 10 years, or through the tenth grade; most children stay in
school at least until the age of 18. The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) reported
a school attendance rate of 100 percent in 2004. Homelessness in
Norway Ana Swierstra Bie, Share
International, April 1999 www.shareintl.org/archives/homelessness/hl-asbNorway.htm [accessed 29 June
2011] A
REPORT ON INCREASING HOMELESSNESS IN NORWAY, CAUSES AND ATTEMPTS TO STEM THE
TIDE AGAINST ENTRENCHED SOCIAL/POLITICAL INDIFFERENCE - About 61 per cent
of the homeless are drug or alcohol addicts while 21 per cent have a mental
illness which needs treatment. Like the trend in many other countries,
psychiatric services have seen their capacity to cope greatly reduced in the
last 10-15 years. Again, as in many countries, the voluntary sector and
charities are picking up the pieces that governmental welfare services cannot
deal with. Child
Poverty in Rich Countries, 2005 [PDF] United Nations
Children's Fund UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, www.unicef-irc.org/publications/pdf/repcard6e.pdf [accessed 29 June
2011] www.unicef-irc.org/publications/pdf/repcard6e.pdf [accessed 26
December 2016] [page 4] KEY FINDINGS
- At the top of the child poverty league are Denmark and Finland with
child poverty rates of less than 3 per cent. At the bottom are the Over the latest
ten-year period for which comparable data are available, the proportion of
children living in poverty has risen in 17 out of 24 OECD countries (Figure
2). Higher government
spending on family and social benefits is clearly associated with lower child
poverty rates. All
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