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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 *** Neglected Children Konrad Kiedrzyński, Warsaw Business Journal, 08 December
2008 www.wbj.pl/article-43643-neglected-children.html [accessed 11
Aug 2013] Increasing numbers of children are neglected in The decay of family
bonds is the main cause for such behavior, according to UwB’s
Winiarska. The problem is further aggravated by
factors like poor receational infrastructure she
added. ***
ARCHIVES *** ECPAT Global
Monitoring Report on the status of action against commercial exploitation of
children - POLAND [PDF] ECPAT International,
2006 www.ecpat.net/A4A_2005/PDF/Europe/Global_Monitoring_Report-POLAND.pdf [accessed 11 July
2011] www.ecpat.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/A4A_V2_EU_POLAND.pdf [accessed 1 January
2017] SEXUAL EXPLOITATION
OF BOYS
- September 2002 saw a major police operation against the sexual exploitation
of boys that was taking place in Warsaw’s Central Train Station. Young boys -
mainly escapees from institutions which also receive child victims of sexual
exploitation, as they are sometimes regarded as offenders – were being abused
in return for money, alcohol, food and computer games. The abusers were
between 34 and 70 years old, and included a businessman, a doctor, a manager
in a large company, a psychologist in a reformatory, a researcher in a
scientific institute and a priest. Most of the accused were married, some
also had children. –
sccp Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61668.htm [accessed 10
February 2020] CHILDREN
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Education is universal and mandatory until age 18, and public schools are free.
According to the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), 98 percent of school-age
children attended school. Most students continued their studies to the
postsecondary level. Concluding
Observations Of The Committee On The Rights Of The Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 4 October 2002 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/poland2002.html [accessed 19
December 2010] [27] The Committee
notes with concern that the principle of non-discrimination is not adequately
implemented with respect to certain vulnerable groups of children, including
children of the Roma and other ethnic minorities, children living in
institutions, children with disabilities, children of poor families and
children with HIV/AIDS. In particular, the Committee is concerned about their
limited access to adequate health, education and other social services and
about reports of racially motivated violence in which police have failed to
protect the victims. [36] The Committee is
concerned at the large number of children in the State party living in
institutions, a significant proportion of whom are "social" rather
than natural orphans. [52] The Committee
is concerned that, despite pilot programs aimed at improving the situation of
the Roma in certain provinces, they still suffer from widespread
discrimination which has in some instances impeded Romani children's right to
education, health and social welfare. ROPE - Relief for
Oppressed People Everywhere www.rope.org.uk/countries.php?country=Poland [Last access date
unavailable] Despite its recent
successes, 17% of We give essential
aid to widows and refugees, provide regular financial support for orphans and
street children, and rescue girls in danger of prostitution. [2006 website posting] Country Information
www.child-hood.com/index.php?id=723&type=6&type=6 [accessed 1 January
2017] STATE
AND SOCIETY -
Children also suffer under domestic violence and neglect. One effect of this
is the large number of street children. Volatile Substance
Abuse Among Young People In Council of At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 11 July
2011] books.google.com/books?id=9GAARi6W7RkC [accessed 1 January
2017] 10.3 SPECIAL GROUPS - There are a
number of groups that are likely to be more at risk of drug and volatile
substance use than others. These include children in difficult family
circumstances, children whose parents misuse alcohol or drugs, 'street
children' and - possibly - members of minority groups such as Roma. It is
also important that groups who may be thought unlikely to misuse drug or
volatile substances are not neglected, for even among such groups there is
likely to be some substance misuse. For example, among rural and small town
folk or among more 'middle-class' young people. I attempted to find examples
of work with street children, but there did not appear to be any projects that
focused on this group. I met with a
representative of the refugee council, Polska Akcja Humanitarna, who said
that there was not a problem of volatile substance misuse among the refugees
she dealt with. In many people's minds, the problem of street children in
Poland is associated with refugees and immigrants from poorer countries of
Central and Eastern Europe. But these are not the only groups on the street. All
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