PROTECTING STREET CHILDREN AROUND THE WORLD:ANDY SEXTON

Congressional Testimony;  September 13, 2005 ;     700+ words ......like to thank you for holding this hearing on street children. The issue of street children is a global tragedy and a global opportunity. This hearing comes at a time when the issue of street children seems to have largely dropped off the radar...

PROTECTING STREET CHILDREN AROUND THE WORLD:CHRISTOPHER H. SMITH

Congressional Testimony;  September 13, 2005 ;     700+ words ......Philippines and Uganda and Zimbabwe. Street children are, tragically, found in almost...impulse to eliminate petty crime. Street children are used by criminal gangs and...victimized even further. Worldwide street children number in the many millions...

Guatemalan street children in battle for survival

The Boston Globe;  July 25, 1993 ;     694 words ......the murders of as many as 25 street children last week has refocused attention on the plight of street children who are often the victims of...Guatemala City, the number of street children is estimated at between 3,000...

Nigerian Street Children: Security Threat in Edo State

Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences;  September 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...The incidence of street children in Nigeria is of concern especially...study was designed to learn who the street children are, what their educational status...security. Participants included 240 street children, 120 teachers, 120 parents, and...

At Home in the Street: Street Children of Northeast Brazil

Journal of Third World Studies;  April 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......Tobias. At Home in the Street: Street Children of Northeast Brazil. Cambridge...Tobias Hecht's book about the street children of metropolitan Recife, which...describes the situation of the street children from the vantage point of the...

Neglecting a massive problem: drug abuse among street children

The Hindustan Times;  June 23, 2007 ;     574 words ......deprivation, according to a Unicef report. Street children constitute a marginalised group in most...supervision compound the vulnerability of street children. Very little data is available on street children living with HIV/AIDS in South Asia. The...

PROTECTING STREET CHILDREN AROUND THE WORLD:SHAY CULLEN

Congressional Testimony;  September 13, 2005 ;     700+ words ......come here, I was working with street children. One particular group led by...deported for working to protect the street children and defend their rights to experience...put the figure at 1.2 million street children about 70,000 of them in Metro...

Social Support and the Ability to Adapt to Life Among Brazilian Street...

The Journal of Social Psychology;  February 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ...THE PROBLEM OF STREET CHILDREN has become increasingly apparent...amp; Lusk, 1995). Whereas some street children maintain contact with their families...does not provide a clear picture of street children, their social supports, and their...

New festival aiming to give street children hope.(News)

The Mercury (South Africa);  November 7, 2008 ;     222 words ...BYLINE: GUGU MBONAMBI STREET children are often neglected and shunned...organisations to establish the first street children's festival to offer them support...hope for a better future. The street children's festival committee hopes to...

Election Poses Dangers for Street Children

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  April 4, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Congo's tens of thousands of street children risk political manipulation...political parties have enlisted street children to create public disorder in...72-page report, "What Future? Street Children in the Democratic Republic of...

Sleeping Rough in Port-au-Prince: An Ethnography of Street Children and...

Latin American Politics and Society;  July 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......Port-au-Prince: An Ethnography of Street Children and Violence in Haiti. Gainesville...This book addresses a topic, street children in developing countries, that...clogging a sewer culvert, because street children sometimes crawl into secret...

Street children in Kenya: voices of children in search of a...

Journal of International Affairs;  September 22, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Street Children in Kenya: Voices of Children in Search...first examines the growing number of street children in the developing world, a commonly...on children's rights. The number of street children in the urban centers of the developing...

BULGARIA-HUMAN RIGHTS: ROMA STREET CHILDREN AT RISK

Inter Press Service English News Wire;  September 13, 1996 ;     604 words ......Sep. 12 (IPS) -- Thousands of street children in Bulgaria face harassment...officials. Its findings are grim. "Street children are often subjected to physical...estimates that the number of street children in Bulgaria at between 12,000...

Street children find refuge in sewers

The Scotsman;  September 26, 2003 ;     700+ words ......for a ragged army of filthy street children running barefoot down the central...nightmare is being played out as street children and rats desperately compete...the army to clear the city of street children was to herd them in droves at...

24-hour help line for capital's street children

India Abroad;  September 18, 1998 ;     360 words ......09-18-1998 24-hour help line for capital's street children The capital's street children will finally have someone to listen to them...round-the-clock emergency phone service for street children who find themselves in difficult circumstance...