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http://www.wunrn.com

 

STREET GIRLS - DAILY CHALLENGES FOR SURVIVAL - FEW CELEBRATIONS

 

Human Rights Council resolution 16/12 - Rights of the child: a holistic approach to the protection and promotion of the rights of children working and/or living on the street

 

UN Site - Children Working and/or Living on the Street Including 2012 Report:

http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Children/Study/Pages/childrenonthestreet.aspx

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Link to 2011 Street Children Report: Still on the Street - Still Short of Rights

http://plan-international.org/files/global/publications/protection/street_children_report_2011.pdf

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http://plan-international.org/about-plan/resources/news/bangladesh-street-children-launch-photo-exhibition

 

BANGLADESH STREET CHILDREN PHOTO GALLERY

 

 

There are approximately 52,000 girls living on Dhaka

 

 

There are approximately 52,000 girls living on Dhaka's streets. Here, a girl carries out a basic household chore, even though she doesn't have a house to live in. Photo by Sabina.

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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:

  • focus greater attention on marginalised children in order to achieve the Millennium Development Goals
  • put in place and adequately fund national child protection and child welfare systems that are sensitive to the rights of street children
  • recognise that the factors that lead to a children living or working on the street are complex and organisations working with street children need to tailor their responses
  • provide appropriate gender and child rights training for all those who work with street children.

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