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Prevalence, Abuse & Exploitation of Street Children Serbia,
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Agence France-Presse AFP, afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jLHPW4-O9mzK5rpstZ8Ylx55BSPw [accessed 18 July 2011] The plight of Luja, a 16-year-old who stopped going to school because
he couldn't afford books, reflects that of the hundreds of homeless children
in After a day spent
begging in the streets, trying to attract the attention of indifferent
passers-by, cleaning windshields at main crossroads or minding luxury cars,
these children return to what they consider their homes: abandoned basements
or even drainage holes. ***
ARCHIVES *** ECPAT Global Monitoring Report on the
status of action against commercial exploitation of children - SERBIA [PDF] ECPAT International, 2006 www.ecpat.net/A4A_2005/PDF/Europe/Global_Monitoring_Report-SERBIA.pdf [accessed 18 July 2011] Roma children and street
children are an extremely vulnerable group, and anecdotes of prostitution of
Roma children around train and bus stations are common. These children are at
high risk of being trafficked in Serbia in particular, and there were reports
in 2002 of Roma children from the former Yugoslavia being sold in Italy for
the sex industry. UNICEF - www.unicef.org/infobycountry/serbia.html [accessed 18 July 2011] UNICEF - www.unicef.org/infobycountry/montenegro.html [accessed 18 July 2011] Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61673.htm [accessed 21 December 2010] CHILDREN
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Romani, Ashkali, and Egyptian children attended mixed
schools with ethnic Albanian children but reportedly faced intimidation in
some majority Albanian areas. Romani children tended to be disadvantaged by
poverty, leading many to start work both at home and in the streets at an early age to contribute
to family income. SECTION
6 WORKER RIGHTS
– [d] In villages and farming communities, younger children typically worked
to assist their families. Urban children often worked in a variety of
unofficial retail jobs, such as washing car windows or selling newspapers,
cigarettes, and phone cards on the street;
the numbers of such children grew in the last year, although statistics were
not kept by either UNMIK or the PISG. Some children were also engaged in
physical labor, such as transporting goods. Belgrade's street children find comfort,
help at daycare centre Bojana Milovanovic,
Southeast European Times, www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/articles/2009/04/13/reportage-01 [accessed 18 July 2011] Experts believe
that more than 500 minors -- predominantly Roma -- live or work on the
streets of Idriz, 17, has been
working on the street since he was nine. He lives with his parents, five
brothers and three sisters. After four years of elementary school, he began
supporting the family, since his father is disabled and his mother must take
care of the younger children. Idriz earns a living
by washing windshields or collecting aluminum and copper scrap with his
brother's help. "I can't go back
to school, because there's no one to provide for the family. My brother and I
daily earn about 11 euros. That amount cannot feed the ten of us," Idriz says. Agence France-Presse AFP, afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jLHPW4-O9mzK5rpstZ8Ylx55BSPw [accessed 18 July 2011] The plight of Luja, a 16-year-old who stopped going to school because
he couldn't afford books, reflects that of the hundreds of homeless children
in After a day spent
begging in the streets, trying to attract the attention of indifferent
passers-by, cleaning windshields at main crossroads or minding luxury cars,
these children return to what they consider their homes: abandoned basements
or even drainage holes. Poor Education Must Come To An End Catholic Agency for Overseas Development
CAFOD -- photography by Simon Rawles At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 18 July 2011] Up to 80 per cent
of the Roma community in Belgrade live in unhygienic
settlements. Sometimes three
generations live in one shack, made from anything they can find. Of the 82,000 Roma children in Ombudsperson Sends
Appeal To Ombudsperson Institution in Kosovo,
Quarterly Information Sheet, April - June 2005 www.ombudspersonkosovo.org/repository/docs/Informator06_eng4%20apr-jun.pdf [accessed 18 July 2011] [page 15] On the 20th of
April 2005, the Ombudsperson sent a letter to the Prime Minister of Kosovo,
Mr. Bajram Kosumi, to
draw his attention to the situation of children who were spending their days
on the street, working or begging for money and who were dropping out or not
attending school. According to the
Ombudsperson, these were not “street children” in the strict sense of the
word, because they returned to their home and families in the evenings.
Nevertheless, such children were still exposed to various dangers, as they
were liable to become easy victims of trafficking or child prostitution. Relief for Oppressed People Everywhere ROPE News from ROPE (Relief for Oppressed People
Everywhere), February 2001 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 18 July 2011] Our contact reports
"There are many very poor people in Serbia, unbelievably poor even for
us. Some of them live in utter poverty without food, clothes, shoes, sleeping
on the floor. They send their children to beg on the street.” Trafficking in Human Beings in Barbara Limanowska,
Stability Pact Task Force on Trafficking in Human Beings, UNICEF, June 2002 www.unicef.de/download/trafficking-see.pdf [accessed 21 December 2010] [page 78] 1.2.
TRAFFICKING OF CHILDREN - There are also
reports of Romanian children and adolescents in Belgrade living on the
streets because they are too old to be placed in institutions. The Romanian
Embassy is not interested in repatriating these children and adolescents, and
no special programs or services exist for migrant children living on the
streets. All
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