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CAUTION: The following links
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 *** Committee On The
Rights Of The Child (CRC) - Report Of UN Committee on the
Rights of the Child, Third Session, Summary Record of the First Part
(Public)* of the 58th Meeting held at the Palais
des Nations, Geneva, 19 January 1993
-- Chairman: Mrs. Badran www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf/0/4004a04faf1c052041256151003944dd?Opendocument [accessed 26 July
2011] [14] On the
question of street-children, a survey had been completed in ***
ARCHIVES *** Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61677.htm [accessed 11
February 2020] CHILDREN
- The
government was strongly committed to children's rights and welfare; it amply
funded systems of public education and medical care. The government provided compulsory,
free, and universal education for children ages 9 to 16, but public schooling
was provided until age 18. Nearly 100 percent of school-aged children
attended school, and the highest level achieved by most children was
completion of high school. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 28 January 2005 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/sweden2005.html [accessed 27 December
2010] EDUCATION - The Committee
welcomes the efforts of the State party to provide free compulsory schooling
through the age of 16 years, including universal free pre-schools for
children aged 4‑5. It is, nevertheless, concerned that: (a) Children without resident permit, in
particular children “in hiding”, do not have access to education; … UNACCOMPANIED
CHILDREN
- The Committee notes the efforts of the State party to address the situation
of unaccompanied minors and to enhance the quality of reception and
interviewing for asylum‑seeking children. However, the Committee is
concerned about: (a) The high number
of unaccompanied children having gone missing from the Swedish Migration
Board’s special units for children without custodians; … Sweden [DOC] UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, Committee On The Rights Of The Child, Thirty-eighth
session, 2005 At one time this
document had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 26 July
2011] OVERVIEW OF STREET CHILDREN ISSUES - There is no
mention of street children and nothing relating specifically to street
children in the constituent reports. Social report 2006 National Board of
Health and At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 26 July
2011] SUMMARY [page S7] Young people who neither study nor work run
a great risk of long-term exclusion from the labour market During the period
1992-2002, young people who had studied could relatively easily establish themselves
in the labour market. Their proportion of the core workforce increased
rapidly during the years following their studies, irrespective of the state
of the economy. Young people who worked or were seeking work at the beginning
of the period also had considerably better chances than young people who were
not economically active. During the
period there was an increase in the number of young adults who were not
economically active, i.e. neither worked, studied nor sought work. These
young people ran a great risk of still being outside the labour market after
seven years. The establishing difficulties were associated with the level of
economic activity. These young adults
also risk ill-health in the long term.
Mental illness, alcohol and drug abuse appear to be more common in
this group than among other groups of young people. All
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