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UN Integrated Regional Information Networks IRIN, www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=55442 [accessed 27 June 2011] For the past two decades, the 13
million residents of Sorry Story Of Chioma Anyagafu
and Fred Iwenjora, OnlineNigeria,
February 04, 2006 nm.onlinenigeria.com/templates/?a=6865&z=12 [accessed 27 June 2011] Their outlook paints a vivid
picture of their state of helplessness. They appear unkempt and totally
hopeless of what the future holds. In their tattered clothes, they find homes
in the most filthy and awkward places like abandoned buildings, under
overhead bridges and school premises. Usually, they retire to these
“abodes” at dusk and dash out early in the morning before the prying
eyes of security agents or the rightful owners of the structures turn out for
business. The cries of the next generation, the conscience of hope weblog by adefemi adefemiisrael.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/the-cries-of-the-next-generation-the-conscience-of-hope/ [accessed 27 June 2011] While unethical fetish cultural
practices are abolished in some parts of ***
ARCHIVES *** UNICEF – www.unicef.org/infobycountry/nigeria.html [accessed 27 June 2011] Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms of
Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/nigeria.htm [accessed 13 December 2010] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - In urban areas, children work as domestic servants, street hawkers,
vendors, beggars, scavengers, shoe shiners, car washers/watchers, and bus
conductors. Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61586.htm [accessed 13 December 2010] SECTION 6
WORKER RIGHTS – [d]
Economic hardship resulted in high numbers of children working to enhance
meager family income. Children frequently were employed as beggars, street peddlers, bus conductors, and
domestic servants in urban areas. Little data was available to analyze the
incidence of child labor. The National Modular Child Labour Survey Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of
the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 28 January 2005 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/nigeria2005.html [accessed 13 December 2010] [69] In view of the increasing
number of children living and working on the street and street families, the
Committee regrets the lack of information about specific mechanisms and
measures to address their situation. [73] The Committee notes with
appreciation the State party’s ratification of the ILO Convention No. 138
concerning Minimum Age for Admission to Employment and the ILO Convention No.
182 concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of
the Worst Forms of Child Labor in October 2002. However, it remains concerned
at the significant number of children in Nigeria working as domestic
servants, in plantations, in the mining and quarrying sector, and as beggars
on the streets. Sonnie Ekwowusi,
This Day, 5 October 2010 allafrica.com/stories/201010060483.html [accessed 27 June 2011] Aside child labour, Nigerian children
are victims of legal injustice. For example, many Awaiting Trial Inmates
(ATMs) languishing in our various prisons are children below the age of 16.
Many them are children caught loitering in the streets and dumped in prison
for no reason. Some of them are tortured and abused in prisons. The juvenile
court system seems to have collapsed. A few times I have visited the prisons
I have been shocked by the huge number of young persons and children
loitering around the prison premises without hope of getting justice. The cries of the next generation, the conscience of hope weblog by adefemi adefemiisrael.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/the-cries-of-the-next-generation-the-conscience-of-hope/ [accessed 27 June 2011] Eight-year-old Uduak
was said to possess supernatural powers and was declared a witch by a
prophetess at a vigil in Eket, Akwa
Ibom, His
mother had take!” him to the church for “spiritual deliverance”, That was the
beginning of Uduak’s tortuous road to living as his
mother publicly disowned him. More troubles awaited the child the next day at
home. His father splashed acid at his
face, leaving him with blisters, and chased him out of the family’s one room
apartment. Uduak now finds shelter among other
abandoned children at the Eket Sports Stadium. But
he still dreams about home, and pleads with anyone who cares to hear his
story to take him home to his parents.
“I want to go back to my parents; I want to go back to school, but I
am scared of the prophetess,” he says. Funmi Ogundare,
This Day, allafrica.com/stories/200801100295.html [partially accessed 28 June 2011 - access restricted] He said the Child Rights Act as
enacted has given the government some powers to prosecute parents or
guardians who maltreat children by sending them to beg or hawk on the streets
when they should be in school. Badru added that
such children, after some time, are forced into armed robbery or even become
tools in the hands of robbers who used them as gun keepers because they are
underage. "For example, in Lagos,
people come from all parts of the country to 'hustle'; it is now getting to
an alarming stage where you see underage children come on their own. So when
this happens there is no where to stay except under the bridges. They join
bad gangs and many other vices and armed robbers use them as an opportunity
to keep guns because they are under aged", he said. Some other children, the special
adviser also noted, aside running away from home because the guardians or
parents are maltreating them, some parents even send them to be used as house
helps elsewhere by collecting money. "For those children, when
they are maltreated there, they run away and knowing fully well that if he
goes back home, he would be taken back there or to another place for the same
purpose", he said. Digital Diary: Christine Jaulmes, United
Nations Children's Fund UNICEF, www.unicef.org/infobycountry/nigeria_42282.html [accessed 28 June 2011] Isaiah has spent 5 of his 15 years
living on the streets of Tayo Agunbiade,
This Day, allafrica.com/stories/200709280307.html [partially accessed 28 June 2011 - access restricted] Recently, the first lady of Sisters Unite for Street Children Hilda Okoisor, This Day, May 10,
2007 This article has been archived by World Street Children
News and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 28 June 2011] Ibrahim Tijani,
a young boy of 17 said that he used to sleep under the bridge in Oshodi sometimes under a car or a bus or inside a dry
gutter. He does not know his parents as he was left alone by his parents when
he was three years old. He started
attending the Foutain of Life Church, Oshodi where they took a particular interest in him
because they thought he was well behaved. He worshipped with them every time
especially on Fridays for the night vigils and Sundays for worship. They accomodated him and promised to help him settle
down. Eventually, after two years of which he did not run away, a member of
the church took him to the Child Life Line Centre, Ibeshe
vilage, Ikorodu where he
currently resides. Since he is an old boy, he is learning the art of welding
while the Centre takes care of his other needs. For Street Children, What Kind of Future? Godwin Haruna, This Day, October
4, 2006 This article has been archived by World Street Children
News and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 28 June 2011] The problem of street children in
several cities in Pupils of Precious Childcare Foundation during an
anniversary August 14, 2006 This article has been archived by World Street Children
News and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 28 June 2011] “In some cases, their parents sent
them out to go and bring money in; in fact, they had become bread winners for
their parents and some are just abandoned children right from childhood. So I
went through these experiences and I felt that something should be done to
take care of this category of children,” she explained in an interview with
the Nigerian Tribune. Therefore, Princess Adetokunbo Wande Abimbola established a non-governmental organisation called Precious Childcare Foundation (PCF)
in 1995 with the objective of educating and empowering the abandoned and
neglected children as well as highlighting the social and health problems
facing this group with a view to finding solutions to them. It is a big mistake to be barren and not adopt Jemi Ekunkunbor,
The Vanguard, At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 28 June 2011] For many years, the state of the
Nigerian child has never been one of good tidings. In spite of public and
private efforts geared at alleviating the sufferings of the Nigerian child,
the reality stares us in the face with children still hawking wares on
the street, many too numerous to estimate not being in school and many at
birth abandoned to fate on street corners and on rubbish heaps. Those
who are lucky among these categories of people have landed in the
padded arms of Rev. Mrs Dele George and hubby, co
founders of the Strong Tower Mission who for years, have been on a mission to
rescue abandoned children. What are the issues that make
people abandon children? Of course the issue is poverty. I would say
that the national income per head in this country is still very low compared
to Europe or US in spite of the fact that Area Boys -- A Growing Menace On
The Streets Of
UN Integrated Regional Information Networks IRIN, www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=55442 [accessed 27 June 2011] For the past two decades, the 13
million residents of Sorry Story Of Chioma Anyagafu
and Fred Iwenjora, OnlineNigeria,
February 04, 2006 nm.onlinenigeria.com/templates/?a=6865&z=12 [accessed 27 June 2011] Their outlook paints a vivid
picture of their state of helplessness. They appear unkempt and totally
hopeless of what the future holds. In their tattered clothes, they find homes
in the most filthy and awkward places like abandoned buildings, under
overhead bridges and school premises. Usually, they retire to these
“abodes” at dusk and dash out early in the morning before the prying
eyes of security agents or the rightful owners of the structures turn out for
business. Consortium for Street Children Consortium for Street Children At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 28 June 2011] Children work as vendors or
hawkers, beggars, shoe shiners, car washers and watchers, head-loaders,
scavengers and bus conductors. The majority are boys but there are a few girls.
Street families, a variant of street living, are also becoming prominent Dateline Adesola Orimalade,
The Globalist, February 07, 2005 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 28 June 2011] The entire urban landscape of NGO Periodic Report for The African Network for the Prevention and Protection
against Child Abuse and Neglect ANPPCAN Child Rights Monitoring Center,
November 26, 2004 www.crin.org/docs/resources/treaties/crc.38/Nigeria_ANPPCAN_ngo_report.doc [accessed 28 June 2011] The number of children who live
and sleep on the streets has been on the increase in most major urban areas
in Information on the Child Welfare
League Of Child Welfare League of Nigeria, October 1995 -- presented
at the 13th Session of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child CRC, Sept
- Oct 1996 www.crin.org/docs/resources/treaties/crc.13/Nigeria_CWL_Info_Report.pdf [accessed 28 June 2011] [page 1]
In Social correlates and coping
measures of street-children: a comparative study of street and non-street
children in south-western Aderinto AA, Department of Sociology, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11057706?dopt=Abstract [accessed 28 June 2011] OBJECTIVE: This paper sought to achieve two
objectives: First, to identify the social correlates attributable to
street-children in south-western A community based study of patterns of psychoactive
substance use among street children in a local government area of Nigeria Morakinyo J & Odejide
AO, Department of Psychiatry, University College Hospital, Oyo State, Ibadan, Nigeria, 2003 Aug 20 -- PubMed,
U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, PMID:
12927648 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12927648?dopt=Abstract [accessed 28 June 2011] The nature of continuous exposure
to the street and its associated lifestyles make street children vulnerable
to the use of psychoactive substances. Youth Get A Second Chance Remi Oyo, Inter Press Service News
Agency IPS, www3.unesco.org/planetsociety/sp/spune/articles/DEVO03/dev06.html [accessed 28 June 2011] 1000 youth have been identified
for an agricultural project under the ''Good Boys and Good Girls'' program.
The youth will be placed on allocated land where they will farm cassava and
maize, two of VSA Arts of Nigeria goes awakening the creative of the
less priviledged Children VSA Arts of At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 28 June 2011] In a major drive to
bring reformations and opportunities to these so called "Street
Children" VSA arts of Nigeria has embarked on an Art awareness
project at the Juvenile Remand & Rehabilitation center in Ibadan, Oyo state. Self Help Effort Education for All EFA 2000 Assessment Country Reports - www.unesco.org/education/wef/countryreports/nigeria/rapport_3_1.html [accessed 28 June 2011] 12.2.9
RESCUING, REHABILITATION AND RETURNING STREET CHILDREN - The Street Children phenomenon in ECPAT International At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 28 June 2011] It had been stated that in Nigeria
children as young as four or five years old were sometimes taken into
families as domestic helpers because their parents were poor or in debt.
These children are prone to sexual abuse and exploitation. When ill treated,
they run away and end up in the streets where they are vulnerable to
commercial sexual exploitation (CSEC).
Nigerian
“Shade Tree Theatre” with Street Children Salami, Irene and Henk van
Beers, Children, Youth and Environments 13(1), Spring 2003. pp. 23-47 www.colorado.edu/journals/cye/13_1/Volume13_1FieldReports/ShadeTreeTheatre_Salami_vanBeers.htm [accessed 28 June 2011] Shade Tree Theatre is a project
with working children in the streets of Street Children's Experiences In The Injustice System [PDF] Interagency Panel on Juvenile Justice www.juvenilejusticepanel.org/resource/items/C/S/CSOutsidechance_Part2.pdf [accessed 28 June 2011] Amongst the list of practices that
street children in Pre-trial detention of children
has been found to last as much as one year. Some criminal cases are just left
unattended to while children languish away on remand. Children in the homes
feel the police have forgotten them there. Children are not given the chance
to speak or defend themselves; Children are held in handcuffs; Sometimes
children become hopeless and feel like they want to die; Children do not
reply to the police statement. 4. Addressing Child Labor and Promoting Schooling www.dol.gov/ILAB/media/reports/iclp/Advancing1/html/nigeria.htm [accessed 28 June 2011] a. Child Labor Initiatives UNICEF
has established a series of programs for street children in Street Children and the Juvenile Justice System in Human Development Initiatives, Committee on the Rights of
the Child CRC -- Publisher: Consortium for Street Children , 2004 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 28 June 2011] Report discusses the framework for
the juvenile justice system in All material used herein
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