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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
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** RIGHTS OF THE CHILD
- Report of the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child
prostitution and child pornography, Ms. Ofelia Calcetas-Santos U.N. Economic and Social
Council, Commission on Human Rights, Fifty-sixth session, 22 December 1999 www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/0/eee276066375879b8025689600531c70?Opendocument [accessed 5 April
2011] 35. Many children
who suffer such abuse in the home run away around the age of 12 or 13. They
often enter prostitution shortly afterwards in order to make some money while
living on the streets, and often to recreate the abuse that they have
suffered throughout their lives, in circumstances in which they have control over
it. 37. Despite the
very different circumstances that lead these children, Belgian, immigrant or
refugee, to live and work on the streets, many aspects of their future will
be similar. Up to 70 per cent of them become addicted to cocaine, heroin, ecstasy,
speed, or a mixture of these, and some become drug dealers to support their
addiction. Other addictions include gambling, with estimates suggesting that
up to 80 per cent of the children’s earnings are spent in gambling halls. A
large number of such halls appeared in Brussels in 1995, and have now
replaced video parks as the main places for street children to hang out. ***
ARCHIVES *** Runaways
- Where To Turn For Help Before You Are Homeless www.homeless.org.au/runaways.htm [accessed 5 April
2011] Here are the best
phone numbers to call …They are Confidential - which means they won't tell
anyone about your call unless you want them to talk to somebody for you, or
you are in danger. They are open 24
Hours - it doesn't matter what time you call
In Belgium, call 078/15 14 13 Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61639.htm [accessed 7 February
2020] CHILDREN
- Free
full time education is compulsory from ages 6 to 16; subsequently education
remains compulsory until the age of 18, but pupils may continue on a part
time basis. Most children over 15 years old (more than 75 percent) finish
school with a secondary diploma. Government and
private groups provided shelters for runaways and counseling for children who
were physically or sexually abused. Child Focus, the government-sponsored
center for missing and exploited children, reported that it handled 3,305
cases concerning 3,658 children in 2004. Approximately 40 percent of the
reported cases concerned runaways. United Fund for
Belgium - Projects per category - Children and young United Fund for At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 21
September 2011] CHARITY OBJECTIVES - Shelter for children in difficulty … Shelter and orientation for young people in crisis … Accomm. & Guidance for Youngsters in Distress … Shelter and guidance for families and people on their own ... Lodging of 70 teenagers in psychic suffering ... Program offered to a group of school drop-outs in Brussels … etc. BBC News, Shirin
Wheeler, BBC Europe correspondent, 18 June, 2002 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2051904.stm [accessed 5 April
2011] "It was very
hard. I left Statistics (Council of Europe) [accessed 5 April
2011] [scroll down] STATISTICS - Belgium has
4,000 homeless children (in the charge of homeless parents). Industrialized Countries
- Commentary United Nations
Children's Fund UNICEF, The Progress of Nations, 1998 www.unicef.org/pon98/indust3.htm [accessed 5 April
2011] A number of cities
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