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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Children of Bulgaria - Police Violence and Arbitrary
Confinement Human Rights Watch, September 1996, ISBN 1-56432-200-9 This article has been archived by World Street Children
News and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 21 September 2011] Children in ***
ARCHIVES *** UNICEF – www.unicef.org/infobycountry/bulgaria.html [accessed 10 April 2011] The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms
of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/bulgaria.htm [accessed 24 January 2011] CURRENT
GOVERNMENT POLICIES AND PROGRAMS TO ELIMINATE THE WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR - Several Bulgarian localities established programs
integrating children of Roma ethnicity into schools. In order to
increase Roma attendance, the government and NGOs provide subsidies for
schooling expenses such as school lunches, books, and tuition fees. With support from USAID, the Government of
Bulgaria conducts additional ethnic integration efforts. The government has also provided funding
for additional teaching assistants, usually from minority ethnic groups, to
be placed in classrooms with Roma and Turkish students. The World Bank is funding a child welfare
reform project in Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61641.htm [accessed 24 January 2011] CHILDREN - Widespread poverty led many Romani children to turn to begging, prostitution, and
petty crime on the streets. In December 2004 the SACP reported
that 625 children were known to be either living or working on the streets
and were primarily involved in begging, prostitution, or car window washing;
approximately 400 of these children were believed to be exploited for labor
by adults, although experts believed that actual figures were higher. There
were reports that approximately 225 children lived and worked on the streets
without the involvement of a trafficker, pimp, or other third party. Many of
these children had been abandoned by their parents or sent by their families
to urban areas to seek work. The NSI reported a 68 percent increase from 2003
to 2004 in the number of children registered by police for vagrancy and
begging: 1,785 children in 2004, compared to 1,059 in 2003. As part of the
national strategy for street children, SACP continued implementing the
programs it initiated in 2003 to address the situation of street children. One
of these programs included putting street children in protective custody. In
the first nine months of the year, the MOI placed 274 children involved in
begging and vagrancy in five special shelters for street children; in 2004
496 such children were sent to these shelters. The shelters were intended to
serve more as immediate protective resources than facilities for long‑term
or intermediate care. They provided food, bathing facilities, and basic
medical care, but children were usually not kept for more than 24 hours
unless remanded to protective custody by the special order of a prosecutor Concluding Observations Of The Committee On The Rights Of
The Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 7 and 8 January
1997 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/bulgaria1997.html [accessed 24 January 2011] [11] With regard to the
implementation of article 4 of the Convention, the Committee notes with
concern the inadequacy of measures taken and the insufficient capacity of
existing bodies, including the Youth and Children Committee, to ensure the
implementation of children's economic, social and cultural rights to the
maximum extent of available resources. The Committee is particularly
concerned at the insufficient policies, measures and programs for the
protection of the rights of the most vulnerable children, especially children
living in poverty, children born out of wedlock, abandoned children, disabled
children, children who are victims of abuse, children belonging to minority
groups, especially Roma, and children who, in order to survive, are living
and/or working in the streets. Street Children Human Rights Watch Report At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 21 September 2011] In Bourgas new komplex
to help children Special Correspondent, The Sofia Echo, Apr 24 2006 sofiaecho.com/2006/04/24/640700_new-bourgas-complex-to-help-children [accessed 10 April 2011] Bourgas mayor Yoan
Kostadinov officiated at the April 12 opening of a
new day care centre for street children. The main goal of the centre will
be to assist children who live and work on the streets and to prevent them
from dropping out of school. It will offer emergency help to street children,
including clothes, food and shelter. Where
Leaders Learn Amanda Millet-Sorsa interviews Dimitry-Ivan Evstatiev Panitza, Chairman of the Free and Democratic Bulgaria
Foundation, The Sofia Echo, Jul 10 2003 sofiaecho.com/2003/07/10/634418_where-leaders-learn [accessed 10 April 2011] WHAT WAS
THE PURPOSE FOR CREATING THE STREET CHILDREN PROGRAM? - The children and youth are free
to come and leave whenever they want since it's not an orphanage or an
institution. However, once there they get assistance, food, shelter where
they can spend the night, and they have educators who teach them how to read,
write, and to draw. Since a normal Bulgarian school is situated nearby, the
educators help them go to school so that some capable children are sent there
and others are sent to boarding schools in the country. Basically out of 100
percent a third are happy kids being educated, a third go back to their
families, and unfortunately a third go back to the streets. Once on the streets they are open to all
the violence and horrible things that happen such as skinheads, child
prostitution, and drugs. These incidents do not only occur in Faith,
Hope and www.acybg.org/programms-en.htm [accessed 10 April 2011] SOCIAL
REHABILITATION.
Street life impedes the formation of a positive self-conception, leads to
interpersonal relationship problems, to the formation of false perceptions about
the structure and functions of society. The Center provides qualified
psychological and social assistance for overcoming the above consequences.
The daily routine is aimed at forming basic notions of social life, of
understanding and learning moral norms, rules and values, interpersonal
communication skills corresponding to the children's age, motivation for
maintenance of a pro-social behavior. NICOPOST regularly organizes
national round table discussions on the Problems of Street Children in Children of Human Rights Watch, September 1996, ISBN 1-56432-200-9 This article has been archived by World Street Children
News and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 21 September 2011] Children in Save the Children Moves in to Help
Children in Save the Children Fund, A Briefing For Journalists, 24
February 1997 pangaea.org/street_children/europe/bulgaria.htm [accessed 10 April 2011] Parents who cannot afford to buy
enough food and fuel to feed and warm their children are faced with one
terrible way out: many have already put their offspring into the hundreds of
state orphanages, countless others will do so in the
months ahead. These institutions, some well run, some dilapidated and dirty,
are themselves facing a crisis as the government's ability to maintain them
declines. All material used herein
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