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Prevalence, Abuse & Exploitation of Street Children In the first ten years of the 21st
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Helping Malaysia's street children streetkidnews.blogsome.com/2007/07/28/helping-malaysias-street-children/ About 500 children are left to
loiter at night in the back streets minutes away from the bright lights of "I know people say what I do
is immoral and not good for children, but if I don't do this who's going to feed my child?" asks Anita, one of ***
ARCHIVES *** UNICEF - The Big Picture Bur of Democracy,
Human Rights & Labor - Country Reports
on Human Rights Practices - 2005 CHILDREN - The government has demonstrated
a commitment to children's rights and welfare and allocated approximately 25
percent of the national budget to education. The government provides free
education for children through age 15. Although primary education is
compulsory, there is no enforcement mechanism governing school attendance.
Attendance at primary school was 96 percent, while secondary school
attendance was 82 percent. A variety of programs provided low cost health
care for most children. No
documents, so street children of KK can’t get into school thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/1/18/nation/2953739&sec=nation
Haris is among a few hundred
“document-less” children mainly from marriages between locals and foreigners.
Without any valid documents, they are unable to enrol
in schools. The children mostly become “street
kids” taking up odd jobs ranging from car washing to peddling contraband
cigarettes. Many are blamed for various crimes such as petty thefts here and
in other parts of the state. However, Azlan
Jeh, 12, said not all the children were involved in
unhealthy activities. “We work and go
fishing although we don’t go to school.” Sabah to rescue street children Sabah Police Commissioner Datuk Noor Rashid Ibrahim said the special operation to rescue street
children would be conducted at major towns where these children are not
schooling and were mostly loitering and peddling goods in the streets. "Not all of them are children
of foreigners. We have found that children of locals are also resorting to
street peddling activities. "They are not involved in
crimes but more involved in selling contraband cigarettes, lottery results
and begging, among other things," he told reporters Wednesday after
launching the Campaign for Security, Unity and Harmony. Malaysia:
Undocumented children in Sabah vulnerable to statelessness Decades of irregular migration to Sabah in eastern Malaysia have resulted in large numbers
of undocumented children of migrants from the Philippines and Indonesia who
are potentially at risk of statelessness. Undocumented migrants in Malaysia
are targets for arrest and deportation, which in some cases has left their
children alone on the street. The exact number of street
children in Sabah is unknown, but they are
estimated to be in the thousands, mostly of Filipino descent. There is strong
local resentment of undocumented migrants in Sabah,
and the street children are portrayed as a criminal element by authorities
and the media. The children working at the fish markets are wary of outsiders
and are under constant threat of raids by police. In 2006, the police
arrested about 160 street children who were placed in detention. Those with
family contacts were eventually released, but there is no information on the
whereabouts of the others. Zugoh, a 12-year-old boy of Filipino
descent, works through the night at a fish market in Kota Kinabalu.
He pushes a heavy wooden cart hoping that customers will allow him to
transport their purchases to their car. Zugoh earns
around 1 MYR, or 30 cents per customer. Zugoh does
not have a father. He has a mother, but he does not stay with her. Zugoh told RI that he sleeps somewhere on the street near
the fish market. He does not go to school, and he has no identity documents. Special
squads to help ‘street children’ of Johor Special squads will be formed by
the state to help “street children” found loitering in Johor
Baru. The squads will help and guide
these children and provide then with skills training. She said the children, mostly aged
between 11 and 19, had been roaming the city, including in the wee hours,
although many had parents. “We
want to save these children before they get into trouble and become a
nuisance. Plans are under way to set up special squads to help guide, train
and advise these children,” she said. Helping Malaysia's street children streetkidnews.blogsome.com/2007/07/28/helping-malaysias-street-children/ About 500 children are left to loiter
at night in the back streets minutes away from the bright lights of "I know people say what I do
is immoral and not good for children, but if I don't do this who's going to feed my child?" asks Anita, one of Undocumented
children in Sabah vulnerable to statelessness The Government of Malaysia has
been cracking down on irregular migrants in the country. In Sabah, raids are conducted in housing areas where the
migrants live and in markets and public areas where many work. Those arrested
are deported back to their country of origin. Many children whose parents
have been deported and who do not have any other family or guardian in Sabah end up living and working on the street at a very
young age, often in fish markets. A local community worker told RI,
"It's those who have nobody who are there [in the fish markets]." Society tends to see street
children as social sores who tarnish the tourist
landscape and make a general nuisance of themselves with their aimless
loitering, hassling for handouts and sleeping in the streets. Many
respectable citizens would like nothing better than to see the authorities harry homeless kids, take them off the streets and put
them in the special homes for the wayward. Sabah building shelter home for immigrant street children She told Mohd
Kamil Datuk Mohd Kassim (BN-Tanjung Batu) that the Women,
Family and Community Development Ministry would provide the funds for the
shelter in Inanam. We will get kids back in school www.jpnperak.edu.my/portal/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=102 At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
"If somebody can identify
them and bring them to us, we’ll find ways to get them back in school,"
he said after his ministry’s post-cabinet meeting yesterday. The report said the children were
between 14 and 18 years old. About 16 of them are often seen roaming Johor Baru’s streets, sleeping
on cardboard boxes on the pavement, eating restaurant leftovers, using public
washrooms and braving older boys who extort money from them. The teenagers had said that they
preferred to spend time on the streets as their families were poor or they
came from broken homes, and teachers and fellow students ridiculed them in
school. Cops warn those
who buy 4-D result sheets from street kids City Police Chief, ACP Ku Chin Wah, said police would be pulling up people who buy 4-D
result sheets from street children in the city. "We will arrest those who stop and buy
the result sheets, just as we would arrest the children," he said. Fund-raiser
today for homeless, street children in Chow Kit They have a place to stay during
the day but at night, they sleep under bridges or at stalls in the Chow Kit
area. This is the fate of children
with the Pusat Aktiviti Kanak-Kanak Chow Kit, which has to close at 5pm every day
since it is only licensed as a day-care centre. Street
kids facing bleak future... unless they can bend it like Beckham The boys are among thousands of children
born to Filipino migrants who, for decades, have been crossing rough seas to
seek a better life in Sabah. Many have Malaysian birth
certificates but can’t apply for MyKad as their
parents are from the Philippines. Others don’t even have any documents. These children have no choice but
to roam the streets in search of money. While some try to earn a decent
living, others pester tourists and locals for money. Some even charge
motorists a ‘protection fee’ for guarding their cars. Malaysian
Judicial Whitewash www.manilatimes.net/national/2004/mar/08/yehey/opinion/20040308opi3.html At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
Malaysian police apprehended all
street children and retarded children for deportation to the EDITORIAL:
Save the children With no legal status, they become fugitives
from the law. Unschooled and unqualified, they do odd jobs and peddle pirated
VCDs or contraband cigarettes to keep body and soul together. Desperation and
despair drive some to sell their bodies or into crime. They are falling
through the cracks and there is no refuge nor
respite for these fatherless and motherless street children in Street Children
List Education As Their Priority According to Fernandez, the
children said they want education when asked on their first priority. During her dialogue with Sabahans, she
learned that KL crackdown on
illegal immigrants from Jan Children Pay High Price of Asian
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