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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 *** Human Rights Watch,
May 6, 2002 www.hrw.org/en/news/2002/05/06/spain-and-morocco-abuse-child-migrants [accessed 24 July
2011] www.hrw.org/news/2002/05/06/spain-and-morocco-abuse-child-migrants [accessed 7 January
2017] "No one is
caring for these children. Spanish officials violate these migrant children's
human rights in an effort to drive them back to ***
ARCHIVES *** Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61676.htm [accessed 11
February 2020] CHILDREN
- Law enforcement
and social service agencies reported an increasing number of undocumented
immigrant children living on the streets. These children cannot legally work;
as a result, many survived through petty crime. From January to August,
nearly three thousand teenagers who engaged in a variety of activities were
rescued from the streets. Concluding
Observations Of The Committee On The Rights Of The Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 7 June 2002 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/spain2002.html [accessed 24
December 2010] [27] The Committee
is concerned that the principle of non-discrimination (art. 2 of the
Convention) is not fully implemented for children of Roma origin, children of
migrant workers, particularly when they are not legal, and unaccompanied
foreign children, especially with regard to their access to adequate health
care and educational facilities. [42] The Committee
notes with concern: (a) the high rate of
truancy and school drop out and the difficult school integration especially
among Roma children, children belonging to migrant families or living in
socio-economically deprived areas; (b)
that some children belonging to migrant families, particularly girls, do not
complete their compulsory education or have great difficulties in attending
school; Amnesty
International, Index Number: EUR 41/003/2001, Date Published: 15 August 2001 www.amnesty.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=13890 [accessed 15 October
2012] www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/spain-street-childrens-rights-have-rights-too [accessed 7 January
2017] AI concerned at
reports that the authorities in Ceuta and Melilla plan to resume their
practice of systematically expelling unaccompanied and undocumented children
-- mostly of Moroccan origin -- living on the streets or in reception centers
for foreign children. Nowhere To Turn:
State Abuses of Unaccompanied Migrant Children by Spain and Morocco Human Rights Watch,
7 May 2002 www.unhcr.org/refworld/country,,HRW,,ESP,4562d8b62,3ced033f4,0.html [accessed 24 July
2011] www.refworld.org/docid/3ced033f4.html [accessed 7 January
2017] I. SUMMARY - In July,
October, and November 2001 Human Rights Watch researchers traveled to III. RESIDENTIAL
CENTERS - POLICE ABUSE DURING APPREHENSION - I was in the port intending to cross to Homelessness in Carmen Font, www.shareintl.org/archives/homelessness/hl-cfSpain.htm [accessed 24 July
2011] The average age is
42, but there are now more younger homeless people -
many of them drug addicts, especially in the capital All
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