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Increasing Number Of Young People, Aged 15 To 24, Live On The Margins Of
Society Sarah Tanou, ospiti.peacelink.it/anb-bia/nr435/e02.html [accessed 11 April 2011] In Burkina, street children plunge
some areas of towns into zones where there is a great deal of
aggression. They are generally
organized in gangs. They threaten with
flick-knives, their favorite victims being pedestrians. Some of these youth restrict their
activities to having a «fix». Many of them meet almost every night in front
of bars to smoke hash or traffic in drugs.
They become precocious delinquents and have very disturbing records.
Theft seems to be their principal activity, specializing in picking pockets,
stealing mobile phones, and stealing parts of cars or motorbikes, with the
complicity of adults. ***
ARCHIVES *** UNICEF – www.unicef.org/infobycountry/burkinafaso.html [accessed 11 April 2011] The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms
of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/burkina-faso.htm [accessed 24 January 2011] CURRENT
GOVERNMENT POLICIES AND PROGRAMS TO ELIMINATE THE WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR - The Government of Burkina Faso is implementing a 10-Year
Basic Education Development Plan (2001-2010) as part of its Poverty Reduction
Strategy supported by the World Bank.
The plan focuses on improving primary school enrollment, literacy, and
school attendance rates. Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61556.htm [accessed 24 January 2011] CHILDREN - The government allotted
approximately 25 percent of the national budget to education, and the law
provides for free compulsory primary education until the age of 16; however,
the government lacked the means to provide universal, free primary education.
If a child qualified on the basis of grades and social condition (that is,
the family was "poor"), tuition-free education could continue
through junior high and high school. Children still were responsible for
paying for school supplies, which often cost significantly more than tuition.
Many parents could not afford to lose a child's labor in the fields or at
other remunerative jobs; as a result, overall school enrollment was
approximately 57 percent (51 percent for girls). Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of
the Child (CRC) - 2002 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 4 October 2002 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/burkinofaso2002.html [accessed 24 January 2011] [56] The Committee notes the pilot
project involving UNICEF and non-governmental organizations to deal with the
issue of street children, but expresses its concern at the increasing number
of street children and at the lack of a systematic and comprehensive strategy
to address this situation and to provide these children with adequate
assistance UN Integrated Regional Information Networks IRIN, www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=78112 [accessed 11 April 2011] Thousands of children, some as
young as seven years old, come to the country's cities from rural areas and
end up living on the streets. An increasing number the street
children are girls, said Joel Kargougou, a former
street child who now runs a local NGO for orphaned children called AMPO. "Girls are most vulnerable and some of
them may be HIV positive or pregnant and so they are not accepted in their
home villages." Many children end
up on the streets when their parents migrate to find work or they are pushed
by their families because of poverty. An
Increasing Number Of Young People, Aged 15 To 24, Live On The Margins Of
Society Sarah Tanou, ospiti.peacelink.it/anb-bia/nr435/e02.html [accessed 11 April 2011] In Burkina, street children plunge
some areas of towns into zones where there is a great deal of
aggression. They are generally
organized in gangs. They threaten with
flick-knives, their favorite victims being pedestrians. Some of these youth restrict their
activities to having a «fix». Many of them meet almost every night in front
of bars to smoke hash or traffic in drugs.
They become precocious delinquents and have very disturbing records.
Theft seems to be their principal activity, specializing in picking pockets,
stealing mobile phones, and stealing parts of cars or motorbikes, with the
complicity of adults. Information about Street Children [DOC] based on a paper submitted by Tissons,
ANERSER (Association Nationale pour l’Education et la Réinsertion
des Enfants des Rues), CREDO (Christian Relief and
Development Organisation), OMEEB (Organisation Musulmane
pour l’Epanouissement des Enfants
au Burkina), Solidarité Jeunes
IAEMO and MAEJT – Burkina Faso and is taken from “A Civil Society Forum for
Francophone Africa on Promoting and Protecting the Rights of Street
Children”, 2-5 June 2004, Senegal At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 21 September 2011] In 2002, a survey found 2,000
children living on the streets between the ages of 7-21, of which 62% were
between the ages of 13 and 18 and 24% between 7 and 12. The older street population exerts a great
deal of influence over young arrivals, and the latter tend to depend on them
for much of their protection. Factors
pushing children onto the streets:
poverty, population explosion, rural migration, enrolment in Koranic schools, increasing abuse and neglect within the
family, and the consequences of HIV/AIDS. Reports to Treaty Bodies - Committee on the Rights of the
Child Produced by Human Rights Internet, FOR THE RECORD 2002 -
THE UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS SYSTEM, Volume 2: At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 21 September 2011] The Committee also noted with
concern: the increasing number of street children and the lack of a
systematic and comprehensive strategy to address this situation and to
provide these children with adequate assistance; the increasing number of
child victims of commercial sexual exploitation, including prostitution and
pornography; the insufficient programs for the physical and psychological
recovery and social reintegration of child victims of such abuse and
exploitation; the absence of juvenile courts and juvenile judges, and the
limited number of social workers and teachers working in this field Save the Children Save the Children www.savethechildren.ca/documents/SCC%20Annual%20Report%202005-2006_EN_Final.pdf [accessed 11 April 2011] [page 15]
WEST & EAST
AFRICA - UN Integrated Regional Information Networks IRIN, 6 April
2004 www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=49418 [accessed 24 January 2011] According to government statistics,
there were 2.1 million orphans and abandoned children in Burkina Faso last
year. They accounted for nearly 18 percent of the country's 11.8 million
population. The perils for orphaned and unprotected children are
numerous. Thousands each year end up as street children who beg to
survive. – htsc BURKINA
FASO: Project to help street children - OCHA IRIN UN Integrated Regional Information Networks IRIN www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=32086 [accessed 11 April 2011] United Nations Volunteers (UNV)
has announced that it will run a five-year project aimed at transforming the
lives of some 1,200 disadvantaged children in two of Helping Street Children + Providing Care Médecins Sans Frontières
At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 21 September 2011] Médecins Sans Frontières is helping children and
youngsters living on the streets of the capital, Ouagadoughou. Instead of operating from a center, the
team works on the streets in close proximity to these children. Today, the program reaches 700 children and
80 teenage girls. Low-profile
Japanese volunteers reap high praise in Boureima Hama, Agence France-Presse AFP, www.aegis.com/news/afp/2003/AF0309E7.html [accessed 11 April 2011] Fujimoto Naohiro
roams the town in search of the street urchins who typically hang about
outside restaurants, movie theatres or bakers' shops. He tries to persuade those more involved in
petty crime to give up on drugs and robbery and he tries to raise their
awareness of HIV-AIDS. His colleague
Kazuhiro Akashi helps the children step closer to
leaving the streets. In an effort to
raise their self-awareness and stimulate positive attitudes, he enrolls them
in his amateur theatrical company.
Beyond the short term, Vocational Training for Young Women, Kombissiri [PDF] Terre des Hommes At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 21 September 2011] To avoid the economic and social marginalisation of young girls who have never been to
school or who had to drop out early, our Partner, The Song Taaba Association has opened a The success of this Project lies
equally with the involvement of the parents, aware of the necessity of
further education to ensure the integration of their daughters into Burkinabe society. All material used herein
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