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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Solve the Problem of Street Children Emel Kilic,
Bıa news centre,
İstanbul, 16 January 2008 www.bianet.org/english/local-goverment/104195-solve-the-problem-of-street-children [accessed 1 August 2011] NIGHT SHELTERS AND
REHABILITATION NEEDED
- "Children and young people living on the streets need somewhere to
stay at night, and this needs to be provided by the municipalities. In
Istanbul, at least 10 night shelters need to be founded. Istanbul’s 32
district municipalities need to come together and collaborate on a common
project. They have not done anything on this issue yet, but the problem could
be solved within a year if there were a project under the coordination of the
Greater Istanbul Municipality." ***
ARCHIVES *** UNICEF
– www.unicef.org/infobycountry/Turkey.html [accessed 1 August 2011] The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/turkey.htm [accessed 1 January 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - A rapid assessment on working street children in
2001 found that street children in the cities of Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61680.htm [accessed 1 January 2011] CHILDREN
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Government-provided education through age 14 or the eighth grade is free,
universal, and compulsory. The maximum age to which public schooling was
provided was 18. Traditional family values in rural areas placed a greater
emphasis on education for sons than for daughters. According to the
government, 95.4 percent of girls and 99.2 percent of boys in the country
attended primary school; however, the UN reported during the year that in the
eastern and southeastern regions of the country more than 50 percent of girls
between 6 and 14 did not attend school. SECTION
6 WORKER RIGHTS
– [c] Some parents forced their children to work on the streets and to beg. SECTION
6 WORKER RIGHTS
– [d] There were no reliable statistics for the number of children working on
the streets nationwide. The
government operated 28 centers to assist such children. Concluding Observations of the Committee on
the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 8
June 2001 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/turkey2001.html [accessed 9 March 2011] [61] The Committee
takes note of the number of protocols the State party has signed with ILO, in
particular that for the promotion of education of working children. However,
it expresses its concern that there is not a clear legal minimum age for
working children and notes, in this regard, the commission established under
the Working Children Department of the Ministry of Labor and Social Security
to prepare a draft "Law about the minimum age for work and protective
measures for working children", which will cover all children who work.
It nevertheless remains worried about the large number of children engaged in
labor activities, in particular children working in the fields, domestic
workers, children working in small enterprises and
children working in the streets, who appear to be less protected by
legislation. [63] While noting
that a number of centers have been established, with the collaboration of
non-governmental organizations, to provide counseling, training and
rehabilitation services for children living in the streets, the Committee
nevertheless expresses its concern at the significant number of such children
and notes that assistance is generally only provided to them by
non-governmental organizations. Street children take part in protest to
protect Hasankeyf Today's Zaman
with wires, İstanbul, 26 May 2009 www.todayszaman.com/newsDetail_getNewsById.action?load=detay&link=176338&bolum=100 [accessed 1 August 2011] Street children,
who are working with the Batman Youth Social Life and Culture Association
(AGES), have taken part in a demonstration to protect the ancient city of The children, who
are working as shoeshiners, scale attendants and
tissue sellers, took a break from their jobs for one day to take part in the
protest. They chanted slogans against the building of the Ilısu
Dam, which is threatening Hasankeyf. The
ancient city will be submerged under water if the dam is completed. They also
carried posters which said “Street Children for Hasankeyf"
and “Keep your dirty hands and your greedy desires away from Hasankeyf.” The children said that if Hasankeyf
is submerged under water, there will be no tourists visiting Batman. İstanbul home to 30,000 street
children, research shows Habib Güler,
Today's Zaman, www.todayszaman.com/newsDetail_getNewsById.action?load=detay&link=159433&bolum=101 [accessed 1 August 2011] Of Of the street
children, 20 were identified in Ankara, and Turkey's third-largest city,
İzmir, had none. Kocaeli province was reported
to have 687 street children while Eskişehir
has 47. The research also revealed that 41,000 children are forced to beg on
the streets, more than half of whom are found in İstanbul. Other cities
with high figures include Ankara (6,700), Diyarbakır (3,300), Mersin
(637) and Van (640). Rise in sexual abuse of minors in Ercan Yavuz,
Today’s Zaman, www.todayszaman.com/newsDetail_getNewsById.action?load=detay&link=144149 [accessed 1 January 2011] Drawing on
statistics she gathered working with experts and civil society groups, Arıtman says 4 percent of all children in Turkey are
subject to sexual abuse, with 70 percent of the victims being younger than
10. “Contrary to popular belief, boys are subject to sexual abuse as
frequently as girls. In reported cases of children subject to commercial
sexual exploitation, 77 percent of the children came from broken homes.
Twenty-three percent lived with their parents, but in those homes domestic
violence was common. The biggest risk faced by children who run away and live
on the street is sexual exploitation. Children kidnapped from southeastern
provinces are forced into prostitution here. Today, it is impossible to say
for certain how many children in Turkey are being subjected to commercial
sexual exploitation, but many say official information is off by at least 85
percent. An estimated 88,313
children in Street kids turned hockey champs to compete
in Slovenia Serkan Canbaz,
Today's Zaman, www.todayszaman.com/newsDetail_getNewsById.action?load=detay&link=140171 [accessed 2 August 2011] The Solve the Problem of Street Children Emel Kilic,
Bıa news centre,
İstanbul, 16 January 2008 www.bianet.org/english/local-goverment/104195-solve-the-problem-of-street-children [accessed 1 August 2011] NIGHT SHELTERS AND
REHABILITATION NEEDED
- "Children and young people living on the streets need somewhere to
stay at night, and this needs to be provided by the municipalities. In
Istanbul, at least 10 night shelters need to be founded. Istanbul’s 32 district
municipalities need to come together and collaborate on a common project.
They have not done anything on this issue yet, but the problem could be
solved within a year if there were a project under the coordination of the
Greater Istanbul Municipality." Parties promise to protect children but
forget their rights Today's Zaman, 09
July 2007 www.todayszaman.com/newsDetail_getNewsById.action?load=detay&link=116092&bolum=8 [accessed 2 August 2011] WHAT IS THE PARTIES'
APPROACH REGARDING THE PROBLEMS OF STREET CHILDREN? - They just
mention that they will rescue street children, but how they will do it is not
detailed. None of the parties has a detailed project regarding street
children, even though it is a huge problem. The Nationalist Movement Party
(MHP) promises to put and end to the street gangs that "breed"
street children, but does not mention what is going to happen to those
children afterwards. These gangs, no matter how bad they are for society,
provide the only home-like environment street children ever have. The
children need rehabilitation programs, homes and education to rejoin society, and the party does not mention such projects at
all. Children From Street Do Organic Farming Turkish Press, www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=169326 [accessed 2 August 2011] Street children in
southern city of Bayildiran said 150 children
have already received certificates from courses on automotive, floriculture
and food sectors, and approximately one third of them are already employed. Street Children catch purse snatchers Star, March 21, 2007 This article has been archived by World
Street Children News and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 2 August 2011] STREET CHILDREN
CATCH PURSE SNATCHERS
– A young girl, Meltem Dal, attacked by a purse
snatcher in Beyoğlu yesterday, was rescued by
the street children who live at the Kids of Hope (Umut
Çocukları) Association, the Star daily
reported yesterday. Dal realized her purse was opened and caught the
15-year-old snatcher girl from her arm. However, when the snatcher's mother
appeared suddenly, she started to harass Dal, the daily wrote yesterday. The
street children from the association came to rescue Dal as soon as they
heard her screaming. Two street
children held the snatcher mother and daughter until police arrived. The kids
calmed Dal down. No one but these street children helped her and she owes her
life to these kids, said Star. A ‘practice of solidarity’ reaching out to
working children in Çankırı Emine Kart , Today's Zaman, www.todayszaman.com/newsDetail_getNewsById.action?load=detay&link=106169&bolum=101 [accessed 2 August 2011] SOLIDARITY AT THE
COMMUNITY LEVEL
- According to the data and information studied by the Ministry of Labor and
Social Security in corporation with workers' and employers' organizations and
NGOs, the three worst forms of child labor in Turkey have been identified:
seasonal agricultural work, work in small and medium sized enterprises under
hazardous conditions and working on the streets. At present 159
children in Çankırı have been identified
as being at risk; all of them are now receiving help from the project. In
Governor Öner's words, those children "are
happier than they were in the past and the possibility of encountering
similar situations has been reduced to minimum level." Children get a future through recycling Turkish Daily News, 01August 2007 www.worldscrap.com/modules/news/article.php?aid=1928 [accessed 2 August 2011] Thanks to income
from the Solid Waste Recycling Project, some 350 street children in Street children saved via sports The New Anatolian, This article has been archived by World
Street Children News and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 2 August 2011] Kocaeli’s Gebze district police has
rehabilitated some 90 street children so far with a project aiming to adapt
them to society through sports. Turfanda also said that
they saw significant changes in children who took part in the project, since
their self-confidence improved. He also called on
the Gebze townspeople, public institutions and
non-governmental organizations to contribute to their efforts to adapt street
children to the society. To Turkish Daily News www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=52983 [Last access date unavailable] Eight young people
working as street vendors have become a source of inspiration for children in
similar situations with impressive scores in the national university
entrance examinations. Aksu said the children,
who at times had to continue street peddling, with their perseverance and
zeal to succeed, were living proof that being a "street child" was
not an inescapable fate, stating that even in the period when they had to
work on the street, none of them had gotten involved in crime or gone in the
wrong direction. Sixty percent of juvenile delinquents don’t
attend school Turkish Daily News www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=51496 [Last access date unavailable] Erkan noted that street
children could be seen everywhere that internal migration, poverty and
unemployment are found. He said street children were those who could not cope
with the abuse and violence at home. They run away and are forced into
criminal acts by others while living on the streets. He added that the
characteristics all street children shared were the lack of any childhood,
family affection and a proper diet. Turkish Daily News, At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 2 August 2011] The system While there are
efforts in many provinces around the country to rehabilitate and educate
these children, the work that goes into it also provides an inspiration for
others. Community OT based practice with street
children - Off the Street and Back to School [PDF] European Network of Occupational Therapy in
Higher Education ENOTHE Student Group, 12th Annual Meeting, www.udc.es/grupos/cndeuto/doc_report_enothe/Project%20outline.pdf [accessed 2 August 2011] [page 49-50] RATIONALE
(BACKGROUND, OCCUPATIONAL NEEDS, PROBLEM DESCRIPTION) - Street children,
as young as 6 years old, are the most visible part of the population of In Making a Difference
for Children: Street Children United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF www.unicef.org/turkey/dn/cp8.html [accessed 2 August 2011] THE SITUATION - Numbers of children
living and/or working on the streets of Turkish cities have visibly increased
in recent years. Many children who
live at home are forced by their parents to work on the streets in order to
supplement household income. Some who come from
abusive families seek refuge on the streets. Unable to apply
themselves to study or even to attend school, many of these children have
dropped out of the educational system and grow up with little hope of gaining
appropriate training or certification for a skilled job. While on the
streets, many of these children are subject to maltreatment, physical and/or
sexual abuse, disease, malnutrition and substance abuse. Mahmut Oral Say Yes – [the Quarterly
Newsletter of UNICEF www.unicef.org/turkey/sy14/cp21.html [accessed 2 August 2011] Taking the case of Diyarbakır as an example, we see that although the
numbers of children living on the street could be counted in the hundreds as
recently as 1995, these children now make up a group of as many as 20,000 in
this city today. Yusuf Kulca Say Yes – [the Quarterly
Newsletter of UNICEF www.unicef.org/turkey/sy14/cp19.html [accessed 2 August 2011] It is not
surprising that numbers of street children in Protecting
Street Children in World Bank, November 2003 [accessed 2 August 2011] Eleven-year-old
Mustafa regularly comes to the Laundry to get clean clothes, a hot meal, and
spend the night. Mustafa is a runaway
who, like hundreds of other street children in World Bank -
Country Specific Small Grants Program Evaluation Committee Meeting World Bank, APRIL 25, 2005 [accessed 2 August 2011] Project No: #20 - to organize public
information campaign and provide training related to the drug addicted
children of the Project No: #24 - bringing together
about 40 street children under a group that revolves around folkloric dances.
Teaching them to dance and perform on stage will enable them to breathe a
different atmosphere. The trainers who teach them how to dance, act and
behave will have pedagogic skills. Support for income generation activities
for families of child labourers through the ILO's
Start Your Business (SYB) programme with a view to
gradually eliminate child labour International Labour Organisation ILO -
IPEC At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 2 August 2011] Development
Objective: to contribute to the elimination of working street children
through strengthening the local initiatives to improve the lives of children
and their parents. Rehabilitation and prevention of working
children in Gölcük and Adapazari,
Marmara Earthquake Region International Labour Organisation ILO -
IPEC At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 2 August 2011] Immediate
Objective: to withdraw 1000 working children and children at high risk of
becoming child laborers from work and provide them with rehabilitative,
educational, health, nutrition, psycho-social and crisis counseling services
while assisting their families through the provision of social support, A
Film Puts Faces On Ilene R. Prusher,
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