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situation in 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 ARTICLES *** 700,000 street
children in Sudan’s capital DABANGA, Khartoum,
22 February 2015 www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/700-000-street-children-in-sudan-s-capital [accessed 14 July
2021] On the occasion of
the Festival of the Child, Majda Suleiman, the
spokeswoman for the Association, told the press in Khartoum that most of the
homeless children trying to survive in the Sudanese capital, are from Darfur,
South Kordofan and the Blue Nile state. Their
families fled the insecurity in these regions and sought refuge in the
national capital. She added that many
street children are “used by criminal groups” for begging and human organs
trade. SUDAN: Living on
the streets UN Integrated
Regional Information Networks IRIN, www.irinnews.org/report/61181/sudan-living-on-the-streets [accessed 10 March
2015] 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 *** 2020 Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices: Sudan U.S. Dept of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and
Labor, 30 March 2021 www.state.gov/reports/2020-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/sudan/
[accessed 14 July
2021] EDUCATION The law provides for
tuition free basic education up to grade eight, but students often had to pay
school, uniform, and examination fees to attend. Primary education is neither
compulsory nor universal. INSTITUTIONALIZED
CHILDREN Police typically
sent homeless children who had committed crimes to government camps for
indefinite periods. Health care, schooling, and living conditions were
generally very basic. 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] www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?page=imprimable&id_article=27663 [accessed 8 January
2017] In order to shed
some light on the plight of children in Sudan under the reign of the National
Congress Party (NCP) regime, it is worthwhile to obtain background
information. Numbers of children on the streets of Khartoum have started to
increase rapidly ever since the early 1980s, when many families moved there
to escape the war in southern Sudan and the drought afflicting the western
regions of Kordofan and Darfur. Two-thirds of the
street children in Khartoum the National Capital of Sudan are estimated to
sniff petrol-based tyre repair glue.Available
data on child labour and street children in Sudan suggests that the number of
street children in northern Sudan was around 70000 by the end of the year
2002, with 73% of these living in the streets of Khartoum. Boys make up
around 86% of those on the streets, and girls 14%. 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. Information About
Street Children - Sudan [DOC] 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] www.ipsnews.net/1999/01/health-sudan-aids-orphans-throng-the-streets/ [accessed 8 January
2017] John Babitis, a social worker employed by the Catholic church
in Khartoum, says most of the children come from war-torn southern Sudan and
the drought-stricken western and central regions of the Northeast African
country. There are an estimated 80,000 street children in the capital city. The Catholic Church
shelters some of the homeless children, and according to Babitis,
out of the 52,000 children sheltered in church hostels, 10,000 are AIDs
orphans. Babitis is in charge of one
of the hostels with 40 children, 14 of whom are AIDS orphans. “I don’t know
the situation in other hostels, but I think they’re all the same,” he says. The social worker
says the AIDS orphans have experienced “terrifying treatment”. “They were abused by
their relations and some were forced to do work meant for adults in return
for accommodation and feeding,” he says. 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 ***
EARLIER EDITIONS OF SOME OF THE ABOVE *** Human Rights Reports
» 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61594.htm [accessed 11
February 2020] 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. All
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