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FEATURED ARTICLES *** Juba's street children survive at risk of
HIV UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
IRIN PlusNews, www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=72892 [accessed 25 July 2011] One of the main
dangers faced by homeless boys and girls is the sexual predators.
"Sometimes it happens that men come and look for boys for sex; they are
looking for boys and girls, but where I stay there are only boys," Mabior said. "It is a mixture: Arabs,
southerners, soldiers from all over ... some boys
will go straight away for the money, others will resist and refuse, but this
means they can get beaten." He said the children earned between US$0.05
and $0.10 for providing sexual services. Although Mabior
had heard of HIV, he had no real understanding of how it is spread, or the
dangers posed by unprotected sex. "There needs
to be a campaign to raise awareness of HIV amongst children living on the
streets; children need to be encouraged to know their status so they can
avoid risky behaviour," Lemi
said. "But testing is voluntary, and they will only come forward to be
tested if they have been educated." UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
IRIN, www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=61181 [accessed 25 July 2011] A dozen boys
discuss the allure of glue and solvents during their time on the streets of
the Sudanese capital Making the Best of a Home Away from Home Nhial Bol,
Inter Press Service News Agency IPS, hpn.asu.edu/archives/Jun98/0211.html [accessed 25 July 2011] Rahman says his parents
left him in a railway station in western Another young boy,
from Pointing to an
elderly man nearby, who is a leper, the young boy says: ''This man is my
father, but not my real father, because he treats me like a son'' ***
ARCHIVES *** UNICEF
– www.unicef.org/infobycountry/sudan.html [accessed 25 July 2011] Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61594.htm [accessed 25 December 2010] CHILDREN
- The
government operated "reformation camps" for vagrant children.
Police typically sent homeless children who had committed crimes to these
camps, where they were detained for indefinite periods. Health care and
schooling at the camps generally were poor, and basic living conditions often
were primitive. All of the children in the camps, including non‑Muslims,
must study the Koran, and there was pressure on non‑Muslims to convert
to Islam. In the camps, the PDF often conscripted teenage males (and, in the
South, some females). Conscripts faced significant hardship and abuse in
military service, often serving on the frontline. There were reports that
abducted, homeless, and displaced children were discouraged from speaking
languages other than Arabic or practicing religions other than Islam. Concluding Observations Of The Committee On
The Rights Of The Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 4
October 2002 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/sudan2002.html [accessed 25 December 2010] [67] While taking
note of the adoption by the President of a decision on 19 June 1999 "to
deal with the problem of street children", the Committee remains
concerned that: (a) There are large
numbers of children living on the street in urban areas and that these
children are vulnerable to, among other things, sexual abuse, violence,
exploitation and the abuse of various substances and that they lack access to
education and adequate health services;
(b) Street children are classified as "vagrants" in the
context of government practices. Myth of JEM child soldiers Mahmoud A. Suleiman, www.sudantribune.com/Myth-of-JEM-child-soldiers,27663 [accessed 25 July 2011] In order to shed
some light on the plight of children in Juba's street children survive at risk of
HIV UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
IRIN PlusNews, www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=72892 [accessed 25 July 2011] One of the main
dangers faced by homeless boys and girls is the sexual predators. "Sometimes
it happens that men come and look for boys for sex; they are looking for boys
and girls, but where I stay there are only boys," Mabior
said. "It is a mixture: Arabs,
southerners, soldiers from all over ... some boys
will go straight away for the money, others will resist and refuse, but this
means they can get beaten." He said the children earned between US$0.05
and $0.10 for providing sexual services.
Although Mabior had heard of HIV, he had no
real understanding of how it is spread, or the dangers posed by unprotected
sex. "There needs
to be a campaign to raise awareness of HIV amongst children living on the
streets; children need to be encouraged to know their status so they can
avoid risky behaviour," Lemi
said. "But testing is voluntary, and they will only come forward to be
tested if they have been educated." Sudanese children abducted for fighting and
sex-UN Reuters, www.reuters.com/article/idUSL0817452320070608 [accessed 26 December 2010] The committee did
not spell out whether the forced recruitment was by official Sudanese armed
forces, by its allied janjaweed militias, rebel
groups or all sides. But street
children and youths uprooted by the conflict which has racked Darfur since
2003 are particularly vulnerable to all forms of exploitation, the U.N. body
said. – htsccp Human Rights Watch - Street Children Human Rights Watch At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 25 July 2011] In several
countries where we have worked, notably Saving John Goddard, www.thestar.com/News/article/203256 [accessed 25 July 2011] Sharia law in In 2003, government
figures show, babies were being abandoned to Khartoum streets at the rate of
110 a month. And in the five years from 1998 to 2003, roughly half of
abandoned babies died before being found – some of dehydration, others of
blood poisoning through the umbilical cord. A few were eaten by dogs. Survivors usually
ended up at the Maygoma institution for
illegitimate babies, only to be treated as outcasts not worthy of care.
During the same five years, of the 2,500 babies admitted to Maygoma, 2,100 died – a mortality rate of 84 per cent. Press Conference by Special Representative
for Children and Armed Conflict UN Department of Public Information • News
and Media Division • www.un.org/News/briefings/docs/2007/070208_Coomaraswamy.doc.htm [accessed 25 July 2011] According to Ms. Coomaraswamy, communities were also ill-equipped to
absorb child soldiers who were demobilized, leading many to return to the
armed forces where they seemed to enjoy a clearer sense of status and
belonging. As a result of the finding, it had been decided that UNICEF
would conduct a study to determine the types of social services needed to
ensure that children were better rooted in the community upon leaving the
military. While in Juba, she
said she had also noted the burgeoning number of orphans and street children
throughout the Sudan, saying it would require programmatic intervention by
the United Nations. UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
IRIN, www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=61181 [accessed 25 July 2011] A dozen boys
discuss the allure of glue and solvents during their time on the streets of
the Sudanese capital Information About Street Children - This report is taken from “A Civil Society
Forum for North Africa and the Middle East on Promoting and Protecting the
Rights of Street Children”, 3-6 March 2004, At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 25 July 2011] The privatization
of public services, together with limited public awareness of children’s
rights, has deprived street children of access to health, education, shelter and
other social services. They are forced instead to rely on leftovers as a
source of food, and to washing themselves and their clothes on the streets.
This renders them vulnerable to a wide range of illnesses and infections such
as cholera, gonorrhea, STDs and HIV/AIDS. Street Children - The Facts New Internationalist Magazine, Apr 1, 2005 www.thefreelibrary.com/Street+children:+the+facts.-a0131758378 [accessed 25 July 2011] [scroll down to
RELATED ARTICLE] AIDS
Orphans Throng The Streets Nhial Bol,
Inter Press Service News Agency IPS, www.aegis.com/news/ips/1999/IP990102.html [accessed 25 July 2011] The boy, aged 13, claims he was kicked out of the house and
told that his parents died of carelessness.
Before he was brought to the hostel, he had spent one year on the
streets, eking out a living by begging.
Social workers accuse War Child Newsflash 1998 War Child NL, www.warchild.org/news/News_archive/1998/1998.html [accessed 25 July 2011] [scroll down] SHAMS STREET
CHILDREN PROJECT, The streetboys of Making the Best of a Home Away from Home Nhial Bol,
Inter Press Service News Agency IPS, hpn.asu.edu/archives/Jun98/0211.html [accessed 25 July 2011] Rahman says his parents
left him in a railway station in western Another young boy,
from Southern Sudan, told IPS that the young and the old on the streets, who
have found themselves cast out of society, have tended to form new families
among themselves to survive. Pointing to an
elderly man nearby, who is a leper, the young boy says: ''This man is my
father, but not my real father, because he treats me like a son'' All
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