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STREET CHILDREN - GIRLS
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Link to 2011 Street Children Report:
Still on the Street - Still Short of Rights
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BANGLADESH STREET CHILDREN PHOTO
EXHIBITION
There are
approximately 52,000 girls living on
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http://plan-international.org/about-plan/resources/news/street-children-report-launched-
STREET CHILDREN REPORT LAUNCHED AT UN
March 2011: Street children need greater protection and recognition if the Millennium Development Goals are to be achieved, says a major report launched at the United Nations.
The Still on the street – still short of rights report, commissioned by Plan and the Consortium of Street Children (CSC), highlights the dangers and challenges street children face and how their rights have been ignored by governments and the international community.
Children Speak
Out
The report was launched at
the 16th Session of the Human
Rights Council* in Geneva, where a street child from Benin shared the stage
with Marta Santos Pais, Special Representative of the UN Secretary General on
Violence against Children, and called on governments to do more to protect
rights for children like her.
"Countries have to take the
problems of street children seriously. We need protection, care and to be able
to go to school. Free education should be available for all children and more
especially for girls," says 18-year-old Severine, who was forced to live
and work on Benin's streets.
Birth Registration Key
Plan's Head of Global Advocacy
Nadya Kassam says: "Street children are some of the most excluded in our
societies. Often without carers, they can be more vulnerable to exploitation
and abuse – such as rape, kidnap, or being used for illegal and hazardous work.
"But having a birth
certificate means they have a legal identity, which makes them visible to the
authorities who must take responsibility for providing education, health and
protective services."
Call for Action
Plan and CSC are calling for
governments and the international community to:
Direct Link to Street Children
Report: http://plan-international.org/files/global/publications/protection/street_children_report_2011.pdf
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Via Childtrafficking.com
Ensing, Anna. (2010). A Triple Burden: Young, Poor and
Female Working Girls in the Homes and Streets of Dhaka. 110 p. “The working
girls live with three disadvantages, or burdens: they are poor, female, and
young. The three factors intensify each other and determine the girls’ position
and rights in society. The discussion on agency presents the ways in which the
working girls show independence and decision making within the context of being
a poor young girl in Bangladesh, limited as they are by their economic and
cultural surroundings.” http://www.childtrafficking.com/Docs/ensing_10_burden_0311.pdf
Strehl,Talinay. (2010). Street-Working and
Street-Living Children in Peru: Conditions and Current Interventions. 143
p. “One of the central objectives of this IREWOC research therefore was to
reveal the faces and voices of street children and analyse their various
backgrounds, relations to the streets and their perceptions of their situation.
The research results were expected to give relevant insights into the various
reasons why children are in the streets, the activities in which the children
engage and how they generate income and the consequences that the children
experience from their working/living/being in the streets.” http://www.childtrafficking.com/Docs/strehl_10_street_child_peru_0311.pdf
Murtaza, Amir and Rana Asif Habib. (2010). Silent
Shrieks: A Situational Analysis of Violence against Street Children in Karachi.
65 p. “Violence against street children in Karachi manifests itself in a number
of forms. However, the exact scope of the problem is not known as it has been
only in the last few years that the prevalence of deliberate physical and
mental violence to street children by parents, peers, police and others has
begun to be acknowledged however not documented. The purpose of this
situational analysis is to document the patterns and magnitude of violence
against street children in Karachi and provide groundwork for further
researches.” http://www.childtrafficking.com/Docs/murtaza__habib_10_shrieks_0311.pdf
Terre des hommes Foundation. (2010).Children in Street
Situations. 37 p. This is a sectoral policy of Terre des hommes (Tdh)
Foundation for children in street situations. Tdh recognises that children in
street situations, as a result of their life experiences and independence, need
specific strategies to reintegrate them socially. To this end, such strategies
must respond to their need for affection, protection, care and education and
must be appropriate to the realities that they have experienced and come to
accept. http://www.childtrafficking.com/Docs/tdh_10_child_situations_0311.pdf
Terre des hommes and Save the Children in Albania.(2010).
Observation Report: Exploitation of Albanian Children in Street Situation in
Kosovo. 16 p. "The aim of this Albania- Kosovo transnational
collaboration was to collect and analyse information on the cross-border movement
of these children from one country to the other in order to get an overview of
their numbers, attempt to identify the patterns and trends in their movement
between the two countries, better understand their modes of recruitment and
exploitation and offer recommendations accordingly on how to protect
these children on the move in line with the principle of a child’s best
interests. This observation research process was also envisioned to serve as a
rapid needs assessment tool in order to understand and identify
some of the immediate challenges faced by these children." http://www.childtrafficking.com/Docs/tdh_10_kosova_original_0311.pdf