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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 *** Bands Of Children
Back On Streets In San José A.M. Costa Rica, May
7, 2002 www.amcostarica.com/050702.htm [accessed 5 May
2011] Bands of young
thieves, called "chapulines" in Spanish,
have reappeared on the streets of ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/costa-rica.htm [accessed 30 January
2011] CURRENT
GOVERNMENT POLICIES AND PROGRAMS TO ELIMINATE THE WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR - The “National
Agenda for Children and Adolescents, 2000-2010,” aims to prevent and
eliminate the worst forms of child labor and achieve 100 percent retention of
children in basic education by the year 2010.
In addition, the Government of Costa Rica is implementing a national
plan to eliminate child labor. The
Government is also providing small loans to families with children at-risk of
working. The Government supports a
radio campaign aimed at raising awareness on the plight of street children,
and stay-in-school programs are offered to child victims of trafficking. In April 2004, the government and Save the
Children-Sweden launched an awareness-raising campaign against trafficking
and exploitation at Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61722.htm [accessed 7 February
2020] CHILDREN
- The
government, security officials, and child advocacy organizations acknowledged
that the commercial sexual exploitation of children remained serious
problems. PANI estimated that three thousand children suffered from
commercial sexual exploitation and street children in the urban areas of Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 3 June 2005 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/costarica2005.html [accessed 30 January
2011] [51] The Committee
regrets the lack of information on street children in the State party’s
report, while the occurrence of children living in the street appears to be
widespread. The concern is accentuated by the fact that, as indicated by the
State party, a high number of street children are addicted to drugs and are
victims of sexual exploitation. Committee
On The Rights Of The Child (CRC) Starts Review Of Report UN Press Release,
HR/CRC/00/9, 14 January 2000 www.unhchr.ch/huricane/huricane.nsf/0/8DA2A7240731ECB48025686900378091?opendocument [accessed 5 May
2011] Concerning street
children, the Government had established institutions, which developed
alternative living conditions for children in the street and without shelter.
The National Children's Trust also played an important role in promoting the
welfare of street children through programs of rehabilitation. Already,
specific programs had been executed in Street
Children Transformed Into Ordinary Teens Jay Brodell, Editor of A.M. Costa Rica, Feb. 26, 2002 www.amcostarica.com/022602.htm [accessed 5 May
2011] They were society’s
rejects. The street children of Solvent based shoe
glues as a principal "drug". Company operating without legal permit Solvent based glues,
worse than heroin boes.org/actions/america/central/casa6.html [accessed 5 May
2011] Although they are
chemicals, solvent based shoe glues are the principal "drug" of
choice amongst the estimated 40 million street children in Country
information: www.child-hood.com/index.php?id=713&type=6&type=5 [accessed 5 May
2011] COMMERCIAL SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN IN TOURISM - Children are enticed by promises of
well-paid jobs and end up being sexually exploited for commercial gain. The
same fate can befall the street children, of which there are estimated to be
some 8,000 in San José. Casa Alianza Report Reveals Challenges Ahead Tim Rogers, Tico
Times, October 02, 2002 www.ticotimes.net/dailyarchive/2002_10/Week1/10-02-02.htm#story_three [accessed 5 May
2011] The long-awaited
report on the state of Street
Children Campaign Launched In Inside insidecostarica.com/specialreports/street_children.htm [accessed 5 May
2011] 147.000 children in
A
Throwaway Generation Deann Alford in www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2000/april24/24.32.html [accessed 5 May
2011] Martha and Angie,
both crack addicts, live on the streets of SOS
Children in SOS Children's Villiages www.soschildrensvillages.org.uk/sponsor-a-child/americas/costa-rica [accessed 5 May
2011] www.sos-childrensvillages.org/where-we-help/americas/costa-rica [accessed 28
November 2016] PUERTO LIMÓN - The second Costa
Rican SOS Children community opened in 2000 in Puerto Limón on the Caribbean
coast, one of poorest parts of the country with many social problems. SOS
Children's Village Limón has ten family houses, providing a home for over 100
children and a kindergarten for children between 3 and 6 years old from both
the SOS Children's Village and the neighborhood. Street Children Get
A Second Chance United Bible
Societies, At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 5 May
2011] The Bible Society of
Costa Rica is aiming to change the lives of some of the estimated 143,000
street children who work the streets of the capital, All
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