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In 1959, Sara and Yvonne, Hollywood actresses at the time, travelled to Tokyo.

Horizont opens its doors to homeless children and their mothers 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, so they can receive the help they need in emergencies, at any time.

Reinforcing public authorities’ involvement in providing basic education and vocational training for street and working children and awareness-raising among the general public concerning the situation of these children and the denial of the right to education for all continued to be another major objective.

[...] [...] activities to the International Africa-Asia Seminar on street children and HIV/AIDS (Bamako, Mali, December 2003), and a regional forum on street children for 15 francophone African countries [...] [...]

The project on “Empowerment of Street and Working Children through Non-formal Education Integrated Approach” in Bandung, Indonesia, was evaluated and used as a basis for the second Regional Training Workshop in China, which formalized Country Plans of Action.

Thus, the ultimate beneficiaries of this training material are expected to be street children, out of school youth and unemployed adults.

With a view to assist specialists working with street children, the website and database on organizations, institutions and specialists working in this field was created and launched by the Kyrgyz youth NGO (http://deti.to.kg). To disseminate knowledge among street children on their rights, a series of handbooks entitled You are not alone was published by the Association of Specialists in Professional and Technical Education in the Kyrgyz and Russian languages.

Increased awareness of children’s rights – to protection, to education, to a family environment – can prevent them from being forced onto the streets in the first place.

[...] [...] treatment of street dwellers, which are allocated to the local authorities, in order to encourage the development of programs for the treatment and integration of street dwellers at the local level, and in order to enhance the responsibility of the local authority for the street dwellers in its jurisdiction.

[...] the construction of minarets.

States must respect and promote the rights of children living in poverty, including by strengthening and allocating the necessary resources to child protection strategies and programmes, with a particular focus on marginalized children, such as street children, child soldiers, children with disabilities, victims of trafficking, child heads of households and children living in care institutions, all of whom are at a heightened risk of exploitation and abuse.

The Coalition’s Ten-Point Plan of Action reflects the specificities and priorities of Latin America and the Caribbean. Some of these priorities are the fight against racism (in particular the persistent practice of marginalization of indigenous peoples and afro-descendents), xenophobia, ethnical and religious intolerance, the plight of street children and youth, and discriminatory attitudes towards people with HIV/AIDS and other health problems.

[...] [...] “Civil Society – to the Children of Russia”.

Among the trainers were experts and activists dealing with the problem of streetchildren in Kyrgyzstan.

[...] [...] “Problems of Street Children in the Cities [...] [...]

The recommendations of these meetings were included in the information portal on Social Integration of Street Children and Young People at Risk in Urban Areas of the CIS, further developed by the All-Russian Union “Civil Society – to the Children of Russia”.

Community-based child protection systems can also help to reduce the overall vulnerability of children and provide special protection to children living and working in the streets, orphans and separated children, who are at particular risk of recruitment.

[...] partners, the Skywave platform provides [...] [...]

[...] [...] assisting street children was further developed [...] [...]

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The projects will include, among other things, six labour-intensive projects (on neighbourhood improvement, canal rehabilitation and relocation) to be implemented by the military component; four professional skills training projects for 480 at-risk youth and prison inmates; four small-enterprise start-up and apprenticeship placement projects for 468 youth and women; four gender-based violence prevention and child protection projects for 3,000 street children and 6,000 women victims of violence; one legal aid project on support to the national legal aid system, which will address prolonged prison detention, gender-based violence, child protection and civil status; and three public outreach and community mediation projects to support the work of community forums to foster coordination between local authorities, communities and other national and international actors.

The DREAM Centre established in Haiti in 2005 to promote the social rehabilitation of some 100 street children aged 10 to 17 years by developing their creative skills and potential was strengthened during the period under consideration.

During the biennium under consideration, the Phnom Penh Office chose to focus on promoting access to education and culture for the most disadvantaged sectors of the society, particularly street children and populations.

Following the recommendation of the working group of the project, UNESCO supported the creation of the rehabilitation centre and a comprehensive educational programme aimed at teaching business skills and creating job places for street children at the rural vocational school.

Outreach for children in difficult circumstances continued through support to Burkina Faso in the preparation of a national action plan, and the organization of a subregional workshop for Southern Africa in April to discuss strategies for prevention of HIV/AIDS among street and working children.

Data such as highresolution topographical information, which would provide the fundamental baseline for coastal vulnerability studies, wave impact and inundation modelling, is almost entirely absent; thus much of what is understood regarding coastal vulnerability in the Pacific islands region is inferred or based on inadequate baseline data.

Two major projects have been implemented, one to improve teacher-training modules, the other to promote preventive education for children in difficult situations, in particular street children, with the dual aim of: (i) giving children, in particular underprivileged children, access to the fundamental rights set out in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and (ii) protecting or lessening the impact of the epidemic on this highly vulnerable section of the population.