Street Children Website Spring 2008. Country by country reports focused on children who make their homes in the street, including street children, street kids, street homeless children, community children & rough sleepers.

Street Children

The Prevalence, Abuse & Exploitation of Street Children

The term street children refers to children for whom the street more than their family has become their real home. It includes children who might not necessarily be homeless or without families, but who live in situations where there is no protection, supervision, or direction from responsible adults.

- Human Rights Watch

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A

Afghanistan

Albania

Algeria

Angola

Argentina

Armenia

Australia

Austria

Azerbaijan

B

The Bahamas

Bahrain

Bangladesh

Barbados

Belarus

Belgium

Belize

Benin

Bolivia

Bosnia-Herzegovina

Brazil

Britain

Brunei

Bulgaria

Burkina Faso

Burma

Burundi

C

Cambodia

Cameroon

Canada

Central African Rep

Chad

Chile

China

Colombia

Congo (DRC)

Costa Rica

Cote D' Ivoire

Croatia

Cuba

Cyprus

Czech Republic

D

Denmark

Djibouti

Dominican Republic

E

East Timor

Ecuador

Egypt

El Salvador

Equatorial Guinea

Estonia

Ethiopia

F

Fiji

Finland

France

G

Gabon

The Gambia

Germany

Georgia

Ghana

Greece

Greenland

Guatemala

Guinea

Guinea-Bissau

Guyana

H

Haiti

Honduras

Hong Kong

Hungary

I

India

Indonesia

Iran

Iraq

Ireland

Israel

Italy

Ivory Coast

J

Jamaica

Japan

Jordan

K

Kazakhstan

Kenya

Kiribati

Korea, North

Korea, South

Kuwait

Kyrgyz Republic

L

Laos

Latvia

Lebanon

Lesotho

Liberia

Libya

Lithuania

Luxembourg

M

Macau

Macedonia

Madagascar

Malawi

Malaysia

Mali

Malta

Mauritania

Mauritius

Mexico

Moldova

Mongolia

Morocco

Mozambique

Myanmar

N

Nepal

Netherlands

New Zealand

Nicaragua

Niger

Nigeria

Norway

O – P

Oman

Pakistan

Panama

Papua New Guinea

Paraguay

Peru

Philippines

Poland

Portugal

Q - R

Qatar

Romania

Russia

Rwanda

S

Saudi Arabia

Senegal

Serbia-Montenegro

Sierra Leone

Singapore

Slovak Republic

Slovenia

Solomon Islands

Somalia

South Africa

Spain

Sri Lanka

Sudan

Suriname

Swaziland

Sweden

Switzerland

Syria

T

Tajikistan

Taiwan

Tanzania

Thailand

Timor Leste

Togo

Tunisia

Turkey

Turkmenistan

U

Uganda

Ukraine

United Arab Emirates

United Kingdom - UK

United States - USA

Uruguay

Uzbekistan

V

Venezuela

Vietnam

Y - Z

Yemen

Zambia

Zimbabwe

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Africa – [video playlist]
Algeria Angola Benin Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Central African Rep Chad Congo (DRC) Cote D' Ivoire Djibouti	Equatorial Guinea Ethiopia Gabon The Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Kenya Lesotho Liberia Madagascar	Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Mozambique Niger Nigeria Rwanda Senegal Sierra Leone Somalia	South Africa Sudan Swaziland Tanzania Togo Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe

East Asia – [video playlist]
Australia Brunei Burma Cambodia China East Timor Fiji	Hong Kong Indonesia Japan Kiribati Korea, North Korea, South Laos	Macau Malaysia Mongolia Myanmar New Zealand Papua New Guinea Philippines	Singapore Solomon Islands Taiwan Thailand Timor Leste Vietnam

Eurasia – [video playlist]
Albania Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia-Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark	Estonia Finland France Georgia Germany Greece Greenland Hungary Ireland Italy Kazakhstan Kyrgyz Republic	Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia	Serbia-Montenegro Slovak Republic Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Tajikistan Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom Uzbekistan

Near East – [video playlist]
Bahrain Egypt Iran Iraq Jordan	Israel Kuwait Lebanon Libya Morocco	Oman Qatar Saudi Arabia Syria UAE	Tunisia Yemen

South Asia – [video playlist]
Afghanistan Bangladesh	India Nepal	Pakistan Sri Lanka	Turkmenistan

Western Hemisphere – video playlists: [North America] [Latin America] [Caribbean]
Argentina The Bahamas Barbados Belize Bolivia Brazil Canada	Chile Colombia Costa Rica Cuba Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador	Guatemala Guyana Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua	Panama Paraguay Peru Suriname United States Uruguay Venezuela

At Mumbai's central train station, young boys like this one arrive daily from rural India thinking they will find work in order to send money home. [photo by Kay Chernush for the U.S. State Department]

Street kids, runaways, or children living in poverty can fall under the control of traffickers who force them into begging rings. Children are sometimes intentionally disfigured to attract more money from passersby. Victims of organized begging rings are often beaten or injured if they don't bring in enough money. They are also vulnerable to sexual abuse. [photo by Kay Chernush for the U.S. State Department]

A Roma (gypsy) child finds herself on the side of a road in northern Italy, ironically wearing a shirt that proclaims, "Outsider." Her family, which fled the ethnic turmoil in Bosnia, is always on the move. Poverty, discrimination, and social customs combine to make Roma children vulnerable to trafficking [photo by Kay Chernush for the U.S. State Department]

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website created by Prof. Martin Patt, Professor Emeritus, University of Massachusetts

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