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accompanying text have been culled from the web to illuminate the 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
that are available on-line. Teachers Check out some of
the Resources
for Teachers attached to this website. ***
FEATURED ARTICLE *** $30m Social Pact To
Help Children The Reporter,
Belize, 15 October 1996 pangaea.org/street_children/latin/belize.htm [accessed 6 April
2011] On Wednesday, the Government and UNICEF set their formal seal of approval upon a five-year master plan that will guarantee access to education for every child in the country, primary health care for every child and broad-based protection from abuse and neglect. ***
ARCHIVES *** Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61716.htm [accessed 7 February
2020] CHILDREN
– Education
is compulsory for children between the ages of 5 and 15. After finishing
primary education, children may enter a secondary school, a government-run
apprenticeship program, or a vocational institution. These programs, however,
had spaces for only half of the children completing primary school. SECTION
6 WORKER RIGHTS
– [d] In 2003 the Central Statistical Office issued the findings of an ILO
study that estimated that 6 percent of children between the ages of 5 and 17 were
working, half of them in hazardous work. The study did not include the
sizeable population of undocumented minors, many of whom were not in school.
The Department of Labor coordinated with police and social services
authorities to provide health and other services to undocumented foreign
children who worked. Children in rural
areas worked on family plots and businesses after school, on weekends, and
during vacations, and were involved in the citrus, banana, and sugar
industries as field workers. Children in urban areas shined shoes, sold food,
crafts, and other small items, and worked in markets. Adolescent girls, some
of whom were trafficked within the country and to and from neighboring
countries, worked as domestic servants, and some worked in commercial sexual
activities. There were no government-sponsored child labor prevention
programs. Committee on Rights
of Child Concludes Consideration of Belize Report on Compliance with
Convention UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, Committee on the Rights of the Child Press Release www.unhchr.ch/huricane/huricane.nsf/0/867CE0D30D363F95802566FA005D38B4?opendocument [accessed 6 April
2011] Regarding street
children, the delegation said that the concept of street children in Christian
Orphanages - The King's Childrens Home www.kingschildrenshome.org/about.htm [accessed 6 April
2011] www.kingschildrenshome.org/index-1.html [accessed 22
November 2016] Children who, for no
reason of their own, are not able to be cared for by their parents or family
members. Children who are abandoned, abused, neglected or orphaned. Children
who are in dangerous conditions, either self-imposed or inflicted by others. All
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