Prevalence,
Abuse & Exploitation of Street Children Serbia,
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and accompanying text have been culled from the web to illuminate the
situation in Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo.
Some of these links may lead to websites that present allegations that
are unsubstantiated or even false. No attempt has been made to validate
their authenticity or to verify their content. 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 *** Agence France-Presse AFP, romarights.wordpress.com/2008/03/18/belgrade-street-children-struggle-to-eke-out-living/ [accessed 13
February 2015] The plight of Luja, a 16-year-old who stopped going to school because
he couldn't afford books, reflects that of the hundreds of homeless children
in After a day spent
begging in the streets, trying to attract the attention of indifferent
passers-by, cleaning windshields at main crossroads or minding luxury cars,
these children return to what they consider their homes: abandoned basements
or even drainage holes. ***
ARCHIVES *** ECPAT Global
Monitoring Report on the status of action against commercial exploitation of
children - SERBIA [PDF] ECPAT International,
2006 www.ecpat.net/A4A_2005/PDF/Europe/Global_Monitoring_Report-SERBIA.pdf [accessed 18 July
2011] resources.ecpat.net/A4A_2005/PDF/Europe/Global_Monitoring_Report-SERBIA.pdf [accessed 3 January
2017] Roma children and
street children are an extremely vulnerable group, and anecdotes of
prostitution of Roma children around train and bus stations are common. These
children are at high risk of being trafficked in Serbia in particular, and
there were reports in 2002 of Roma children from the former Yugoslavia being sold
in Italy for the sex industry. Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61673.htm [accessed 11
February 2020] CHILDREN
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Romani, Ashkali, and Egyptian children attended mixed
schools with ethnic Albanian children but reportedly faced intimidation in
some majority Albanian areas. Romani children tended to be disadvantaged by
poverty, leading many to start work both at home and in the streets at an early age to contribute
to family income. SECTION
6 WORKER RIGHTS
– [d] In villages and farming communities, younger children typically worked
to assist their families. Urban children often worked in a variety of
unofficial retail jobs, such as washing car windows or selling newspapers,
cigarettes, and phone cards on the street;
the numbers of such children grew in the last year, although statistics were
not kept by either UNMIK or the PISG. Some children were also engaged in
physical labor, such as transporting goods. Belgrade's street
children find comfort, help at daycare centre Bojana Milovanovic,
Southeast European Times, www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/articles/2009/04/13/reportage-01 [accessed 18 July
2011] Experts believe
that more than 500 minors -- predominantly Roma -- live or work on the
streets of Idriz, 17, has been
working on the street since he was nine. He lives with his parents, five
brothers and three sisters. After four years of elementary school, he began
supporting the family, since his father is disabled and his mother must take
care of the younger children. Idriz earns a living
by washing windshields or collecting aluminum and copper scrap with his
brother's help. "I can't go back
to school, because there's no one to provide for the family. My brother and I
daily earn about 11 euros. That amount cannot feed the ten of us," Idriz says. Poor Education Must
Come To An End Catholic Agency for
Overseas Development CAFOD -- photography by Simon Rawles At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 18 July
2011] Up to 80 per cent
of the Roma community in Belgrade live in unhygienic
settlements. Sometimes three
generations live in one shack, made from anything they can find. Of the 82,000 Roma children in Ombudsperson Sends
Appeal To Ombudsperson
Institution in Kosovo, Quarterly Information Sheet, April - June 2005 www.ombudspersonkosovo.org/repository/docs/Informator06_eng4%20apr-jun.pdf [accessed 18 July
2011] [page 15] On the 20th of
April 2005, the Ombudsperson sent a letter to the Prime Minister of Kosovo,
Mr. Bajram Kosumi, to
draw his attention to the situation of children who were spending their days
on the street, working or begging for money and who were dropping out or not
attending school. According to the
Ombudsperson, these were not “street children” in the strict sense of the
word, because they returned to their home and families in the evenings.
Nevertheless, such children were still exposed to various dangers, as they
were liable to become easy victims of trafficking or child prostitution. Relief for
Oppressed People Everywhere ROPE News from ROPE
(Relief for Oppressed People Everywhere), February 2001 At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 18 July
2011] Our contact reports
"There are many very poor people in Serbia, unbelievably poor even for us.
Some of them live in utter poverty without food, clothes, shoes, sleeping on
the floor. They send their children to beg on the street.” Trafficking in
Human Beings in Barbara Limanowska, Stability Pact Task Force on Trafficking in
Human Beings, UNICEF, June 2002 www.unicef.de/download/trafficking-see.pdf [accessed 21
December 2010] www.iom.md/materials/1_traff_human_beings_se.pdf [accessed 3 January
2017] REPUBLIC OF SERBIA
-- 1.2. TRAFFICKING OF CHILDREN - There
are also reports of Romanian children and adolescents in Belgrade living on
the streets because they are too old to be placed in institutions. The
Romanian Embassy is not interested in repatriating these children and
adolescents, and no special programs or services exist for migrant children
living on the streets. All
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