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ID cards issued to help Chinese street children find parents With specially-made ID cards containing
their genetic information, 14 street children in northwest China's Shaanxi Province are likely to find their own biological
parents sooner. Medical workers from
the Fourth Military Medical University of Chinese People's Liberation Army
have issued 14 gene ID cards, the first such cards in Shaanxi
Province, to the children accommodated in government-sponsored relief center
in the provincial capital of Xi'an. The card, with 15 gene loci (gene
locations), can represent the full biological characteristics of a person,
and has no chance to be identical with another one among the 6 billion
population in the world, Wu said. ***
ARCHIVES *** UNICEF - The Big Picture Bur of Democracy,
Human Rights & Labor - Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 CHILDREN - Juvenile crime increased
sharply, prompting calls to establish an independent, nationwide juvenile
justice system. During the first seven months of the year, 23 percent more
juveniles were convicted of crimes than during the same period in 2004. From
2000 to 2004, the annual increase in juvenile crime was 14 percent.
Authorities arrested 69,780 juveniles in 2003, and approximately 19 thousand
juveniles were incarcerated in formal prisons. Abolition of the system of
custody and repatriation in 2003 reduced the number of children detained
administratively. Nonetheless, more than 150 thousand homeless "street children" lived in
cities, according to state-run media. Many did not live with their parents
and survived by begging. www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2008-10/16/content_7111771.htm
When Zeng
was 5, her father abandoned her after her stepmother had a baby. She was
given to a couple and brought to Jiangxi. This couple only adopted her to exploit her
as a bread winner. They trained Zeng to do
acrobatics and treated her like a circus animal. For two months after she escaped this hell,
Zeng performed on the streets to beg and slept at
bus stations. Number
of homeless centers to double in China www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2008-09/13/content_7024750.htm
Gao said a national relief system
aimed at helping vagrants, both adults and children, was set up in August
2003, following a scandal in which Sun Zhigang, a
native of Hubei province and a worker at a garment
company in Guangdong province, was beaten to death by eight patients at a
penitentiary hospital just hours after being arrested as a vagrant for not
carrying his ID. Under the system, adult vagrants
can apply for free board and lodging for up to 10 days at relief stations,
she said. In that time, local civil
affairs bureaus, which oversee the stations, will help people to make contact
with their families and will also pay for their bus or train ticket home. Before the system was set up,
homeless people were subject to the old system of "compulsory custody
and repatriation", under which police had to jail vagrants and beggars,
and send them back to their hometowns, Gao
said. "The establishment of the
new relief system is a major step forward for human rights protection in
China." As of March of this year, the
system had helped 588,500 street children nationwide, she said. "Most of them left home because of
poverty, improper parenting, or because they were trafficked," she said www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/03/china.olympicgames2008
At the bottom of the heap are the street
children. At a residential school, I met some of the children plucked from
the streets. An 11-year-old boy who preferred that I call him by his English
name, Nicholas, told me that he had lived with his younger brother and older
sister in Henan. His father was frequently in
trouble and a mother was both pitifully poor and unable to cope with her
uncontrollable children. One day the boss of a beggar gang arrived scouting
for children. He offered the mother 3 yuan (20p)
per day per child if she would allow him to take them away to beg, which she
did. He said he would hand over this money in a lump sum once a year at
Chinese New Year. During the months that followed,
Nicholas said, he earned between 100 and 600 yuan
per day (between £7 and £40) for his boss. Nicholas kept trying to run away.
When the boss beat his younger brother for not earning enough, Nicholas swore
at his boss. Because of this, when the boss took the children home at spring
festival, he gave Nicholas' mother only 30 yuan
(£2) for her son's labour. - htsc Gene
ID cards issued to help Chinese street children find parents With specially-made ID cards
containing their genetic information, 14 street children in northwest China's
Shaanxi Province are likely to find their own
biological parents sooner. Medical
workers from the Fourth Military Medical University of Chinese People's
Liberation Army have issued 14 gene ID cards, the first such cards in Shaanxi Province, to the children accommodated in
government-sponsored relief center in the provincial capital of Xi'an. The card, with 15 gene loci (gene
locations), can represent the full biological characteristics of a person,
and has no chance to be identical with another one among the 6 billion
population in the world, Wu said. Kelly Road grad doing research in China www.princegeorgecitizen.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=70787&Itemid=159 She said the majority of street children
are males. Many are children of migrant workers who've become lost in job
shuffles, some have run away or been pushed out of their homes, others have
been sold or stolen, and many are orphaned due to parent deaths form
disasters like floods and drought. Man joins beggars to learn cruel story about street kids This article has been archived by
World Street Children News and may possibly still be accessible [here] Motivated by the plight of injured
street children, a man became a beggar for two months in Shenzhen to learn
about their circumstances. He visited a man, who was
considered the richest beggar in Shenzhen. The man always controlled three to
four sick or handicapped children, intimidating them into begging. Cao said the man broke arms or legs
of the children he had abducted to make them look miserable. The more
miserable it looked, the more people would give to these children, the man
believed. When the children turned
seriously ill, they often disappeared mysteriously and some new cruelly
injured children would appear, Cao said. Not scorned, street kids get new life in imitation family This article has been archived by
World Street Children News and may possibly still be accessible [here] Home meant anything but warmth to
Wang Qi when he, then 12 years old, was rejected by
his divorced parents four years ago.
But an imitation family program is reshaping the boy’s idea, if more,
perhaps, his life. China
to set up aid centers for street children in cities China will set up more aid centers
for street children in cities, a senior official has said. As one of the most vulnerable groups,
street children need special care and protection so that their rights are
better safeguarded, said Zhang Mingliang,
head of the Social Welfare and Social Affairs Department of the Ministry of
Civil Affairs. Currently street children have
access to food and accommodationat relief stations,
which also provide help for adult vagrants.
The street children's centers to be established across China will
offer not only room and board but also basic education. Civil affairs authorities help as many as
150,000 street kids every year. Experts estimate that there are a total of 1
million street children in China. At the Margins: Street Children in Asia and the Pacific [PDF] www.streetchildren.org.uk/reports/AWest%20Street%20Childrenfinal.pdf At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
The Asia-Pacific Region is home to nearly half the world's children, including large numbers of street children. This paper provides an introductory snapshot of issues concerning "street children" in this vast and culturally diverse region. Information About Street Children - China [DOC] www.streetchildren.org.uk/reports/China%20Child.doc At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
There are an estimated 150,000
street children in The
Migrant's Story: Contours Of Human Rights Abuse CHILDREN WITHOUT A FUTURE - Humanitarian workers also
reported to Human Rights Watch a significant and growing problem of North
Korean street children in China. The migration of children is caused by
similar factors to that of adults, with the additional element of a breakdown
in the school system and absenteeism in the provinces of Getting children off the street in Baoji www.msf.org.au/stories/twproject/2005/074twp.shtml At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
Since January 2005, Marg Ward, an Australian nurse from Ballina,
has been working with street kids in the Médecins
Sans Frontières (MSF) Baoji
Children's Center in China to Help More
Street Children Zhang stated that there are at
least 150,000 homeless children wandering the country's cities, most of them
from underdeveloped rural areas.
"Most of these children are suffering from inadequate daily
necessities and have no chance to receive a normal education, which has a
lifelong negative impact on their physical and mental health. Some of them
even become criminals," Zhang said. China:
Providing AIDS Care And Helping Street Children MSF continues to provide
psychosocial support to marginalized children in Chinese Street Children Struggle To Survive When Joseph Song was a young boy,
he was one of many Chinese children who roamed the streets working for the
little money he would never see. These
days, the 19-year-old helps run a sanctuary for street children. New study reveals nationwide system of arbitrary detention To "prepare" for the
National Day celebrations, for some months police in cities across the
country have been detaining people in a "clean-up" campaign to
clear the streets of those deemed undesirable by urban authorities. The vast
majority of detainees are ordinary migrant workers. Other prime targets
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