Street children

Children working and or living on the street

Children working and or living on the street

Street children

Plight of children working and or living on the streets

Special attention to the street population and ex prisoners.

There has also been a rise in the number of abandoned or street children.

(a) A programme of integral prevention and care for children and adolescents from, and working in, the streets

(a) Undertaking further research into the situation of children living and working in the streets, and using such research to develop appropriate programmes and policies to reduce the number of street children and provide them with appropriate assistance

4. Calls upon all States to take the situation of children working and or living on the streets into account when preparing reports for submission to the Committee on the Rights of the Child, and encourages the Committee and other relevant bodies and organizations of the United Nations system, within their existing mandates, to pay increased attention to the question of children working and or living on the streets

It also notes with concern the generalized use of intoxicating substances among street children.

The specific needs of street children require innovative responses that avoid institutionalization and formal intervention by law enforcement and judicial authorities and that avoid making it a crime to be a street child.

10. Workshop on the problems of streetism organized by the Forum on Street Children, July 1995. Presented a paper on the situation of street children in Ethiopia and the available services.

124. Poverty and violence in the home often drive children onto the streets.

It is estimated that 21 per cent of street children are throwaways . United States Government Accounting Office (GAO), 1989.

That's the charming street urchin face.

The programme of action should pay particular attention to children in exceptionally difficult circumstances, such as street children.

5. Status Report on Street Children in Eastern and Southern Africa (to be issued in April 1997).

Even more alarming is the increase in the number of street children, particularly restavek girls.

Regrettably however, according to information from the Ministry of Education, the books were sold on the streets.

93. The Committee is also concerned by the increase in the number of children living and or working on the street in major cities.

Efforts to provide opportunities for education and leisure to child workers and children working and or living on the street should be strengthened.

306. The Committee recommends that the State party adopt a strategy to tackle the problem of children working and or living on the street.

737. The Committee is also concerned at the increase in the number of children living and or working on the street in major cities.

Efforts to provide opportunities for education and leisure to child workers and children working and or living on the street should be strengthened.

950. The Committee recommends that the State party adopt a strategy to tackle the problem of children working and or living on the street.

236. The Committee recommends that research be undertaken on the phenomenon of the children living and or working in the streets.

The Committee recommends that research be undertaken on the phenomenon of the children living and or working on the street.

(b) Prioritizing family and community based interventions aimed at reintegrating these children successfully into their families

215. The Committee recommends that the State party take all appropriate measures to combat the phenomenon of children working and or living on the street.

859. The Committee recommends that the State party take all appropriate measures to combat the phenomenon of children working and or living on the street.

5. Calls upon the international community to support, through effective international cooperation, including technical advice and assistance, the efforts of States to improve the situation of children working and or living on the streets

At present, many unaccompanied, displaced and orphaned children are resident either on the streets or in orphanages, many of which are of dubious quality

Looking at newspaper ads, we are encouraged to adopt a highway, a lake, a forest, a street dog or an elephant in a zoo.

Children living in low income settlements or on the streets are disadvantaged in gaining access to education.

In the late 1990s, a woman living on the street in West Africa shared a testimony during the commemoration of the International Day of the Eradication of Poverty.

The Committee recommends that in mainland China, the State party strengthen its efforts related to street children, in particular by

170. Through the aforementioned Council and even before its establishment the Street Children apos s Programme provided individual care for street children.

Some live and work in slave like conditions, are forced into prostitution, or end up on the streets of cities far away from their families.

They facilitated the peacekeepers' access to the girls and so functioned as procurers or pimps while living at the internally displaced persons camp or on the streets.

In San Francisco, the Special Rapporteur also had the occasion to visit a juvenile detention centre and to meet with juvenile street prostitutes.

In addition to runaways, children also live in the streets who are throwaways , i.e. who have been thrown out of their homes.

Cities gave them a charter to get rid of the stray animals on the street and destroy them.

What provisions had been made for them?

220. The Committee is concerned about the new phenomena of homelessness and children living and or working in the streets.