Bibliographies on Human Rights: Human Rights Center, UC Berkeley

Children's Rights: Street Children

Bibliography compiled by Molly Ryan
Fall, 1997


A

Abrams, Fran. Orphans with a yearning to learn. (in war-torn Cambodia) Times Educational Supplement, n4164 (April 19, 1996):A20.

Alekseyeva, Olga. Hey mister, can you fill out a form for me?(shelter for homeless in Russia) Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press v57, n32 (Sept 6, 1995):24.

Amnesty International USA. Guatemala: extrajudicial executions and human rights abuses against street childrenNew York: Amnesty International Publications, 1990.

Amnesty International USA. Guatemala, children in fear: street children and street educatorscontinue to be targeted. New York: Amnesty International Publications, 1992.

Apetekar. Lewis. Colombian street children: gamines and chupagruesos. Adolescence v24, n96 (Winter, 1989):784 (12 pages).

Aptekar, Lewis. Family structure in Colombia: its impact on understanding street children. Journal of Ethnic Studies v17, n1 (Spring, 1989):97 (12 pages).

Aptekar, Lewis. How ethnic differences within a culture influence child rearing: the case of the Colombian street children. Journal of Comparative Family Studies v21, n1 (Spring, 1990):67

Aptekar, Lewis. Street children of Cali. Durham: Duke University Press,1988.


B

Balanon, Lourdes G. Street children: strategies for action. Child Welfare v 68, n2 (March-April, 1989):159 (8 pages).

Bali, Shashi K. Hearing on Street Children in Kenya: report on a hearing held in Nairobi, 4 and 5 November 1994. Nairobi, Kenya: African Network for the Prevention and Protection against Child Abuse and Neglect, 1995.

Barrette, Michel J. Street children need our care 1st ed. [Pretoria? South Africa]: Kagiso Publishers, 1995.

Bourdillon, M.F.C. Street children in Harare. Africa v64, n4 (Fall, 1994):516 (17 pages).

Breakey, William R.; Fischer, Pamela J. Homelessness: the extent of the problem. Journal of Social Issues v46, n4 (Winter, 1990):31 (17 pages).


C

Campos, Regina; Antunes, Carlos Mauricio; Raffaelli, Marcela; Halsey, Neal; and others. Social networks and daily activities of street youth in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. (Special Issue: Children and Poverty) Child Development v65, n2 (April, 1994):319 (12 pages).

Chetwynd, Josh. Mock trials: giving homeless kids a feel for the law.Human Rights v21, n1 (Wntr, 1994):10 (3 pages).

Children's Friend Society. Report of the General Committee of Management of the Children's Friend Society: presented at their ninth annual meeting, held on Thursday, May 16, 1839, at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate Street / the Right Hon.... [S.l.: s.n.], 1839 (London: Printed by C. Adlard). Series title: Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature ; no. 31090.

Church, Michael. Drum up the lost souls. (play about murdered street children in Brazil comes to London) Times Educational Supplement, n4170 (May 31, 1996):B5.

Council of Europe. Study Group on Street Children. Street children: co ordinated research programme in the social field (1992-93) / Study Group on Street Children, Steering Committee on Social Policy (CDPS). [Strasbourg]: Council of Europe Press, 1994.

Csillag, Claudio. Policeman found guilty in first trial of murder of Brazilian street children. Lancet v347, n9011 (May 11, 1996):1325.


D

Dewees, Anthony; Klees, Steven J. Social movements and the transformation of national policy: street and working children in Brazil. Comparative Education Review v39, n1 (Feb, 1995):76 (25 pages).

Dunford, Madeleine. Tackling the symptoms or the causes?: an examination of programmes by NGOs for street children in Nairobi, Kenya. Edinburgh: Centre of African Studies, Edinburgh University, 1996.


F

Fremon, Celeste. Tough love. (East L.A. mothers organize to save their children's lives) (except from the 'Los Angeles Times Magazine') Utne Reader, n74 (March-April, 1996):94 (7 pages).


G

Gabriel, Marie Cruz. Children of the street. New Delhi, India ; New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books, 1994.

Gaster, Sanford. Public places of childhood, 1915-30. Oral History Review v22, n2 (Winter, 1995):1 (31 pages).

Gerhart, Gail. Children in Sudan: Slaves, Street Children and Child Soldiers. (book reviews) Foreign Affairs v75, n2 (March-April, 1996):170.

Global plan on child labour adopted. (Human Rights)(includes related article on the rights of children) UN Chronicle v30, n2 (June, 1993):54 (4 pages).

Goode, Judith. Gaminismo: recent trends in social programs for Colombian street children. Indianapolis, Ind.: Universities Field Staff International, 1988.

Gunther, Hartmut. Interviewing street children in a Brazilian city. Journal of Social Psychology v132, n3 (June, 1992):359 (9 pages).


H

Hersch, Patricia. Coming of age on the city streets: runaway and homeless teens thought crack, prostitution and violent pimps were the worst street life could do to them. That was before AIDS. (includes related article) Psychology Today v22, n1 (Jan, 1988):28 (9 pages).

Hillman, Elizabeth. Some hope for Brazil's abandoned children. Contemporary Review v264, n1539 (April, 1994):190 (7 pages).

Hunt, Paul. Children's rights in West Africa: the case of The Gambia's almudos. (urban street children who beg in return for Islamic instruction) Human Rights Quarterly v15, n3 (August, 1993):499-532.


J

Jarvis, Michaela; Radovicz, Estefan. Brazilian street children. (Illustration) Society v29, n4 (May-June, 1992):65 (5 pages).

Jeffrey, Paul. Targeted for death: Brazil's street children. (Cover Story) Christian Century v110, n2 (Jan 20, 1993):52 (4 pages).


K

Kufeldt, Kathleen; Durieux, Mark; Nimmo, Margaret; McDonald, Madelyn. Providing shelter for street youth: are we reaching those in need?Child Abuse and Neglect v16, n2 (March, 1992):187 (13 pages).


L

Larmer, Brook. The 'barrel children.'(Jamaican children left behind by mothers in the US) Newsweek v127, n8 (Feb 19, 1996):45.

LaRosa, Michael. The Street Children of Cali. (book reviews) Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs v32, n2 (Summer, 1990):194 (4 pages).

Levin, Bob. The crime of making children disappear. (homeless children) (Column) Maclean's v107, n49 (Dec 5, 1994):74.

Lim, Anne Siew Kum. Face to face: the street children of Bukit Ho Swee. Singapore: Landmark Books, c1991.


M

Medina, Rogelio Constantino. Serving the people: French priest became a Philippine citizen 20 years ago to help educate Manila's street children. (profile of Pierre Tritz) (Column) Far Eastern Economic Review v157, n28 (July 14, 1994):78.

Miller, Russell. Mexico's flower children. (immigrant street vendors in New York) New York v22, n41 (Oct 16, 1989):31.

Mwansa, L.K.; Mufune, P.; Osei-Hwedie, K. Youth policy and programmes in the SADC countries of Botswana, Swaziland and Zambia: a comparative assessment. International Social Work v37, n3 (July, 1994):239 (25 pages).


N

Nelson, Kristine. The child welfare response to youth violence and homelessness in the nineteenth century. Child Welfare v74, n1 (Jan-Feb, 1995):56 (15 pages).

Newey, Adam. Rough justice. (judicial abuse in Colombia) Index on Censorship v23, n3 (July-August, 1994):83 (2 pages).

Noble, Christina. Nobody's child: a woman's abusive past and the inspiring dream that led to rescue the street children of Saigon. 1st ed. New York: Grove Press, c1994.

Nobody's Child: A Woman's Abusive Past and Inspiring Dream that Led Her to Rescue the Street Children on Saigon. (book reviews) Publishers Weekly v241, n51 (Dec 19, 1994):43.

Notes and comment. (Rio de Janeiro's pre-Earth Summit facelift)New Yorker v68, n19 (June 29, 1992):25 (2 pages).


O

Officer convicted of massacre of youths.(murder of street children in Brazil; includes related information on surviving witness) Facts on File v56, n2892 (May 9, 1996):328 (2 pages).

On the street of broken dreams. (street children) (The Best Mankind Has To Give) UN Chronicle v26, n3 (Sept, 1989):49 (2 pages).


P

Pandey, Rajendra. Street children of India: a situational analysis. Allahabad, India: Chugh Publications, 1991.

Perkins, Eugene. Home is a dirty street: the social oppression of Black children. Chicago: Third World Press, 1991, c1975.

Phillips, W. S. K. Street children in India. Jaipur: Rawat Publications,1994.


R

Raffaelli, Marcela; Campos, Regina; Merritt, Alice Payne; Siqueira, Eliana; and others. Sexual practices and attitudes of street youth in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Social Science & Medicine v37, n5 (Sept, 1993):661 (10 pages).

Rane Asha J., editor. Street children: a challenge to the social work profession. Bombay: Tata Institute of Social Sciences, c1994.

Rizzine, Irene, et al. Childhood and urban poverty in Brazil: street and working children and their families Florence, Italy: Unicef, International Child Development Centre: Spedale degli Innocenti, [1992]. Series title: Innocenti occasional papers, Urban child series ; UCS 3.

Rone, Jemera. Children in Sudan: slaves, street children and child soldiers / Human Rights Watch/Africa, Human Rights Watch Children's Rights Project. NewYork: Human Rights Watch, c1995.

Roux, Johann Le. Street children in South Africa: findings from interviews on the background of street children in Pretoria, South Africa. Adolescence v31, n122 (Summer, 1996):423 (9 pages).


S

Sanders, Thomas Griffin. Brazilian street children. Indianapolis, Ind.: Universities Field Staff International, [1987].

Scheper-Hughes, Nancy; Hoffman, Daniel. Kids out of place. (Brazilian street children)(includes related articles) (Report on Children) NACLA Report on the Americas v27, n6 (May-June, 1994):16 (8 pages).

Schonauer, David. The lost kids. (street children of Bombay, India) (Photojournalism Portfolio, 1993) American Photo v4, n5 (Sept-Oct, 1993):70 (2 pages).

Schurink, Willem Johannes. Street children: an investigation into the causes and incidence of black street children in the RSA 1st ed. Pretoria Human SciencesResearch Council, 1993.

Seelig, John Michael; Tesfaye, Andargatchew. Child welfare issues in Ethiopia. International Social Work v37, n3 (July, 1994):221 (17 pages).

Sherman, Deborah J. The neglected health care needs of street youth. Public Health Reports v107, n4 (July-August, 1992):433 (8 pages).

Shner-Nishmit, Sara. The children from Mapuh Street. Rendered in easy Hebrew by Galia Yardeni. Drawings by Beni Edden. Mahad. 3 Jerusalem, World Zionist Organization, 1968.

Shner-Nishmit, Sara. The children of Mapu Street; a novel. Translated from the Hebrew by DavidS. Segal. [1st ed.]. Philadelphia, Jewish Publication Society of America,1970.

Strauss, David Levi. A threnody for street kids: the youngest homeless. Nation v254, n21 (June 1, 1992):752 (3 pages).

Street children "quo vadis?": summary and resolution of a working conference on the management of street children in the South African context / editor, Evanthe Schurink. Pretoria, South Africa: Human Sciences Research Council, 1994.

Street children: a growing urban tragedy: a report for the Independent Commission on International Humanitarian Issues. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986.


T

Tacon, Peter. Survey on street children in three urban centres of Namibia / co ordinated and carried out by the Ministry of Local Government and Housing of the Republic of Namibia, with the support and assistance... [Windhoek: Ministry of Local Government and Housing], 1991.

The who, why, and how of street children: a guide for street children projects within the child welfare movement. 1st ed. Braamfontein: South African National Council for Child and Family Welfare, 1993.


V

Valla, Victor V. Health and education; university, NGOs, and public policy in Brazil. Latin American Perspectives v21, n3 (Summer, 1994):104 (13 pages).

Valladares, Licia do Prado. Invisible action: a guide to non-governmental assistance for underprivileged and street children of Rio de Janeiro. Rio de Janeiro: Instituto Universitario de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro: Conjunto Universitario Candido Mendes, 1992.

Velis, Jean-Pierre. Blossoms in the dust: street children in Africa. Paris: UNESCO Publishing, 1995.


W

West, Morris L. Children of the shadows; the true story of the street urchins of Naples. [1st ed.]. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1957.

When death squads meet street children. (murders of homeless children in Brazil) Economist v328, n7822 (July 31, 1993):39.

Williams, Christopher. Who are "street children?" A hierarchy of street use and appropriate responses. (Special Section on Children and War) Child Abuse and Neglect v17, n6 (Nov-Dec, 1993):831 (11 pages).

Working with street children: selected case-studies from Africa, Asia and Latin America. Paris: Unesco Publishing: International Catholic Child Bureau, 1995.

Workshop on Street Children & Slum Children: Legal Protection & Social Security (1988: Calcutta, India) Street children & slum children in India: report of the Workshop on Street Children & Slum Children: Legal Protection & Social Security /edited by Manabendra Nath Mandal. Calcutta, India: Socio-Legal Aid Research & Training Centre, [1990].


Y

Young, Stacey. Open season on Nairobi's street kids. (Kenya) Humanist v55, n6 (Nov-Dec, 1995):5 (3 pages).

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