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Online library - The report has a dual purpose: improve understanding of street children by identifying recent advances in an academic scholarship which began in the 1970s identify priority areas for academic research on street children in order to build a stronger strategic base…
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Online library - After the 1999 Kosovo war, a new phenomenon was noticed: Albanian children in street situations moving from Albania to Kosovo. These children and their families, who migrate to Kosovo mainly for begging or collecting metal face…
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Online library - Each street child has its own destiny and its own story. The following stories sent by Member Organizations of the European Federation for Street Children (EFSC), illustrate such destinies giving a voice to these children who are often…
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Online library - Terre des hommes (Tdh) is active in the issue of children living in street situations because these children have had their most basic rights disregarded and are especially vulnerable to all sorts of phenomena likely to endanger their life, their…
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Online library - This document is a toolkit outlining qualitative methods for researchers interested in exploring the more exploitative and damaging forms of child begging, where children have been physically forced or coerced into their work. However, many of the tools and…
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Online library - This report is based on research conducted in Albania and Greece, India and Senegal, and looks at the phenomenon of forced child begging both in its local specifics and global commonalities. Forced child begging involves forcing boys and girls to beg through…
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Online library - This report examines the reasons behind children ending up in the street as well as the offences they commonly commit/are accused of committing. It also explores the socio-cultural factors behind the commission of crimes. However, rather than just presenting these…
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Online library - The EFSCW Symposium aimed to analyse to what extent excluded children and street children have to be considered as a priority within the joint initiatives of the European Commission and the new EU Member States in Eastern Europe in the framework of the EU’s new…
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Event - In June 2017, the Committee on the Rights of the Children adopted General Comment No 21 on Children in Street Situations. This provides States with authoritative legal guidance to ensure street-connected children can enjoy their rights under the Convention on the Rights of…
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Multimedia - Imagine your name is Elvis and you live in an Eastern European country. Here is a video about you. As you can see, you are a victim of the poverty cycle. Because you were born poor, you cannot go to school, you beg on the streets, you eat from the garbage bin and you…
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Multimedia - The phenomenon of child labor continues to be a great concern for Albania. Legal improvements, and the creation of various mechanisms to protect children have not resulted effective to prevent children's employment. Albanian National Coalition BKTF and its active…