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Prevalence, Abuse & Exploitation of Street Children

In the early years of the 21st Century - 2000 to 2010 gvnet.com/streetchildren/Norway.htm

Kingdom of Norway The Norwegian economy is a prosperous bastion of welfare capitalism, featuring a combination of free market activity and government intervention. The government controls key areas, such as the vital petroleum sector, through large-scale state enterprises. The country is richly endowed with natural resources - petroleum, hydropower, fish, forests, and minerals - and is highly dependent on the petroleum sector, which accounts for nearly half of exports and over 30% of state revenue. [The World Factbook, U.S.C.I.A. 2009]

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Finding Jewels In The Gutter

Ana Swierstra Bie, Share International, April 1999

www.shareintl.org/archives/homelessness/hl-asb-findingjewels.html

[accessed 29 June 2011]

ARNE SKARPSNO AND HIS WIFE, GERD, HAVE SPENT ELEVEN YEARS MAKING MEALS AND DISTRIBUTING THEM TO THOSE LIVING ON THE STREETS OF OSLO, NORWAY - AND HAVE  FOUND A SOURCE OF LOVE LIKE NO OTHER - Eleven years ago pensioner Arne Skarpsno discovered that while institutions were closed for the summer many drug addicts, glue-sniffers, prostitutes, alcoholics and other homeless people were actually starving on the streets of Oslo. The impulse to do something was strong. Other people went off on holiday, but Arne and his wife Gerd put their camping table and lots of home-made sandwiches in the car and drove to a place in the city where addicts usually hang out.

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Human Rights Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices

U.S. Dept of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, March 8, 2006

www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61667.htm

[accessed 14 December 2010]

CHILDREN - The government was strongly committed to children's rights and welfare; it amply funded systems of education and medical care.

The government provides free education for children through the postsecondary level. Education is compulsory for 10 years, or through the tenth grade; most children stay in school at least until the age of 18. The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) reported a school attendance rate of 100 percent in 2004.

Finding Jewels In The Gutter

Ana Swierstra Bie, Share International, April 1999

www.shareintl.org/archives/homelessness/hl-asb-findingjewels.html

[accessed 29 June 2011]

ARNE SKARPSNO AND HIS WIFE, GERD, HAVE SPENT ELEVEN YEARS MAKING MEALS AND DISTRIBUTING THEM TO THOSE LIVING ON THE STREETS OF OSLO, NORWAY - AND HAVE  FOUND A SOURCE OF LOVE LIKE NO OTHER - Eleven years ago pensioner Arne Skarpsno discovered that while institutions were closed for the summer many drug addicts, glue-sniffers, prostitutes, alcoholics and other homeless people were actually starving on the streets of Oslo. The impulse to do something was strong. Other people went off on holiday, but Arne and his wife Gerd put their camping table and lots of home-made sandwiches in the car and drove to a place in the city where addicts usually hang out.

Homelessness in Norway

Ana Swierstra Bie, Share International, April 1999

www.shareintl.org/archives/homelessness/hl-asbNorway.htm

[accessed 29 June 2011]

A REPORT ON INCREASING HOMELESSNESS IN NORWAY, CAUSES AND ATTEMPTS TO STEM THE TIDE AGAINST ENTRENCHED SOCIAL/POLITICAL INDIFFERENCE - About 61 per cent of the homeless are drug or alcohol addicts while 21 per cent have a mental illness which needs treatment. Like the trend in many other countries, psychiatric services have seen their capacity to cope greatly reduced in the last 10-15 years. Again, as in many countries, the voluntary sector and charities are picking up the pieces that governmental welfare services cannot deal with.

Child Poverty in Rich Countries, 2005 [PDF]

United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, Florence, 2005 -- Innocenti Report Card No.6

www.unicef-irc.org/publications/pdf/repcard6e.pdf

[accessed 29 June 2011]

[page 4] KEY FINDINGS - At the top of the child poverty league are Denmark and Finland with child poverty rates of less than 3 per cent. At the bottom are the United States and Mexico, with child poverty rates of more than 20 per cent (Figure 1).

Over the latest ten-year period for which comparable data are available, the proportion of children living in poverty has risen in 17 out of 24 OECD countries (Figure 2).

Norway is the only OECD country where child poverty can be described as ‘very low and continuing to fall’.

Higher government spending on family and social benefits is clearly associated with lower child poverty rates.

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