Prevalence,
Abuse & Exploitation of Street Children In the first decade of the 21st Century
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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. *** ARCHIVES *** Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61606.htm [accessed 11
February 2020] CHILDREN
- The
government is committed to the rights and welfare of children,
and the law includes provisions to protect them. Education for children
between 6 and 15 years of age is free, universal, and compulsory, and this
was enforced. According to government statistics, 99 percent of school-age
children attended primary and junior high school. Children were provided
health care under the national health insurance plan. Homeless problems
in Taiwan: Looking beyond legality toward social issues Li-Chen Chenga & Yun-Sheng Yangb,
City, Culture and Society, Vol 1, Issue 3, Sept. 2010 Housing poverty,
homelessness, and the transformation of urban governance in East Asian cities www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877916610000366 [accessed 8 January
2017] [pp 165-173] ABSTRACT - Encouraged by
the public policy, citizens in Taiwan have traditionally enjoyed a high
percentage of home ownership. Therefore, it has been perplexing and enigmatic
to witness the growing homeless population sleeping outside in public areas
in recent years. Public actions have been called for to deal with the
problem. However, the approach of these public actions has depended on how
the problem of homelessness has been defined. This paper presents a
historical context of how homelessness has been presented in policy
discourses. Further, on the basis of a survey conducted in 2004, this paper
describes the profile of the homeless and discusses why the homeless began
sleeping on the streets. Finally, an outreach worker narrates his story about
working with the homeless in Taipei City, the capital of Taiwan. The paper
also includes policy implications in terms of appropriate public actions to
be taken in response to the homelessness problem in Taiwan. High School
Students Concerned for the Society At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 28 July
2011] Since 1994 the
"love loaf community development plan" has helped needy people at
home and abroad, especially in long term development need areas. These
include street children, children in poverty, and child welfare problems that
are central to the mission of World Vision. Southern Office
director Chen Ying-chung says that this year the
Southern district love loaf program goal for children is 8 million Taiwan
Dollars (290,000 Euros) to support Taiwan Aboriginal Children's education,
child and youth protection, and the basic "street children" work of
the district. Hope For Children
in Action in 1997/98 Hope For Children -
At Home & Abroad in 1997/98 At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 28 July
2011] ASIA - In Taiwan, HOPE
has helped to equip a 'pick-up' van for street children in Taipei. All
material used herein reproduced under the fair use exception of 17 USC § 107
for noncommercial, nonprofit, and educational use. PLEASE RESPECT COPYRIGHTS OF COMPONENT
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