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and 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 *** International
Rescue Committee (IRC) - Durable Solutions for Separated Children aupsah.org/services.html [access information
unavailable] They came from ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/guinea.htm [accessed 8 February
2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Children are also found working on the streets
selling cheap goods for traders, carrying baggage, or shining shoes. CURRENT
GOVERNMENT POLICIES AND PROGRAMS TO ELIMINATE THE WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR - The Ministry of
Pre-Education has overall responsibility for the implementation of a USD 70
million World Bank Education for All Project that aims to promote universal
primary schooling, build schools, and improve the quality of education.
The program focuses on girls and rural students, and includes street
children. Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61573.htm [accessed 9 February
2020] CHILDREN
- The
International Rescue Committee and UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) reported that
children living in foster families often did not receive adequate food,
shelter, and clothing and were compelled to work in the streets, sometimes as
prostitutes, for their subsistence. SECTION
6 WORKER RIGHTS
– [d] Many young Muslim children sent to live with a Koranic master for
instruction in Arabic, Islam, and the Koran worked for the teacher as
payment. Children often were sent from rural areas to Concluding
Observations Of The Committee On The Rights Of The Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 29 January 1999 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/guinea1999.html [accessed 8 February
2011] [31] The Committee
is concerned about the growing number of children who, owing inter alia to
rural exodus, poverty, and violence and abuse within the family, have to live
and/or work on the streets and therefore are deprived of their fundamental
rights and exposed to various forms of exploitation. The Committee recommends
that the State party undertake research on the issue of children living
and/or working on the streets as a basis for adopting appropriate programs
and policies for the protection and rehabilitation of these children and the
prevention of this phenomenon The IRC in Guinea International Rescue
Committee IRC, 1 April 2009 www.theirc.org/where/guinea [accessed 8 February
2011] 1 April 2009 The International
Rescue Committee has ended its program in The IRC in www.theirc.org/where/the_irc_in_guinea.html At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] Refugee,
by any other name, might still face danger Caryl Clarke, peacecorpsonline.org/messages/messages/467/2023245.html [accessed 20 May
2011] The final witness,
also protected by confidentiality, testified on the situation in Determining the
Best Interests of Unaccompanied and Separated Children: Lessons from International Rescue
Committee, September 2007 reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/2302A917F2722783C12573600071CC6C-Determining%20the%20Best%20Interests%20of%20Separated%20and%20Unaccompanied%20Children.pdf [accessed 20 May
2011] [page 10] OVERALL BACKGROUND TO THE BID PROCESS IN
GUINEA
- In 2003 the IRC organized an assessment into the situation of the remaining
identified Sierra Leonean separated children, for whom family tracing continued
to be unsuccessful. This precipitated the start of a BID process for durable
solutions, including procedures and criteria for submission and consideration
of cases. The situation for the Sierra Leonean separated children that
remained in Guinea became particularly critical as the official repatriation
of the vast majority of Sierra Leonean refugees was completed by UNHCR in
December 2004. It therefore became necessary to design mechanisms to respond
to their specific needs and identify safe durable solutions for these
children and youth on a case by case basis. All
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