East and South-East Asia and the Pacific

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International Children's Trust

International HIV/AIDS Alliance

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Save the Children UK

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Publications

Report on Japan's compliance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its two Optional Protocols.
CRIN has just published a Report on Japan's compliance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its two Optional Protocols.  This report is the latest in a series of country-level legal analyses on children's rights, focusing on:1) Compliance and states' duties to undertake legislative and administrative reform pursuant to Article 4 of the CRC. 2) Children's rights jurisprudence, offering an overview of important court decisions on children's rights with commentary on each article of the CRC on the international, regional and domestic levels.3. Avenues for redress and options available for those whose rights have been violated, tracing the steps that need to be taken to pursue a judicial or non-judicial remedy in a specific jurisdiction.

“Making Their Own Rules” Police Beatings, Rape, and Torture of Children in Papua New Guinea
This report documents police abuse against children in Papa Guinea as reported by children interviewed by Human Rights Watch.

A Child Protection System in Mongolia
This report looks at problems of vulnerability and protection in Mongolia and provides suggestions for moving forward to an essential child protection service

A Civil Society Forum for East and South East Asia on Promoting and Protecting the Rights of Street Children 2001
This conference is the first in a series of regional forums organised by the Consortium for Street Children with the aim of bringing together key NGOs and government representatives from selected countries to exchange experiences and formulate recommendations for the promotion and protection of the human rights of street children within each region.

A Civil Society Forum for East and South East Asia on Promoting and Protecting the Rights of Street Children 2003
This conference is the third in a series of regional forums organised by the Consortium for Street Children with the aim of bringing together key NGOs and government representatives from selected countries to exchange experiences and formulate recommendations for the promotion and protection of the human rights of streetchildren within each region.

A Study of Policies and Programmes in the Philippines Addressing the Right of Street Children to Education
This study aims to document policies and programs addressing the right of street children in the Philippines to education in order to advocate for improved learning opportunities for them at the national level. The study covered five schools providing basic education to street children delivered in a non-formal mode.

A Study of Policies and Programs of Street Children Education in Indonesia
This research study examines the general situation of street children in terms of literacy and access to education and asseses the government's policy of providing free elementary education in realtion to children living and/or working on the street.

A Study of Trafficked Nepalese Girls and Women in Mumbai and Kolkata, India - A Summary of Findings
This paper provides a summary of the findings from the study of Nepalese girls and women after they have been sold for prostituion in brothels in Mumbai and Kolkata. The study focuses on the economic and social system that engenders the trafficking process.     

Amount of Street Children Rises
Article reporting the increase in numbers of street children in Jakarta

At the Margins - Street Children in Asia and the Pacific
This paper provides an introductory snapshot of issues concerning "street children" in this vast and culturally diverse region. It provides an overview of the issues connected with street children and intervention practices in the region.

Authorities Round Up Street Kids in Zamboanga City
Article on the actions of Zambonga City to round up street children and beggars in an effort to curb the growing number of mendicants, largely blamed for petty crimes.

Breaking Through the Clouds: A participatory action research (PAR) project with migrant children and youth along the borders of China, Myanmar and Thailand
This report details the process and findings of a four-year participatory action research project.This report details the process and findings of a four-year participatory action research project carried out with children and young people who moved across the borders of China, Myanmar and Thailand. There's a summary of the findings for each country, a list of recommendations and an extensive bibliography. The lessons learned will be useful to others implementing similar projects in different countries or regions.

Child Labour and Child Participation: A Girl Child Perspective
This article presents experiences and learning from gender-sensitive participatory research conducted into childrens perceptions of different forms of labour by World Vision International in Thailand.

Child Protection in Emergencies – The Asian Tsunami
Document outlining procedures that should be enacted in emergency situations to ensure the protection of children.

Childhope Asia Philippines’ Outreach and Protection/ Education on the Streets 2007 Annual Narrative Report
Annual report for 2007 on Childhope's Outreach and Protection/Education on the Streets programme for street and urban poor children in Metro Manila.

Children affected by Aids, Orphans and Impact Mitigation in China
This chapter discusses holistic approaches to the circumstances of children affected by HIV/AIDS based on child rights programming, and some of the ethical issues that emerge in seeking children’s best interests.

Children and the Tsunami
Through a focus on relief given following the Tsunami, this publication makes it clear that if we just address immediate physical needs and neglect other rights of children such as the right to participation, development and protection, we run the risk of seeking short-term fixes at the expense of doing longer-term permanent damage. It concludes by asking us all to think through the consequences of our efforts in disaster situations and not ignore the voices of those we are trying to help.

Children in the Sex Trade in China
This report is concerned with adolescent children’s involvement in the mainstream sex trade, highlighting links with urban and rural and gender inequalities.

Children of the Dust Abuse of Hanoi Street Children in Detention
Report on abuse carried out against street children rounded up by the authorities and held in detention centres in Hanoi.

Children of the Wild: Volunteers Teach Iligan City's Street Kids
Article on a program affiliated with Learning Enterprises, a US-based non-governmental organization that initiates English learning programs, which saw volunteers teach at the Hope for Change Center and Children's Home for Refuge in Iligan City.

Children without Childhood
Street children are a global urban phenomenon and their number is increasing.Among them the children who have runaway from their homes and strugglingfor survival on their own and those having no families are the most vulnerable.The present study is an attempt to understand the survival strategies, coping mechanismsand needs and concerns of vulnerable street children so that meaningful interventionprogrammes for their welfare and rehabilitation can be designed.

Children's Work Adults' Pay: Child Sex Tourism - The Problem in Cambodia
This paper presents the findings of a survey in to the knowledge, attitudes and practices of eight key groupd regarding tourist involvement in the commercial sexual exploitation of children in Cambodia.

City Tackles Issues of Homeless Children
Article on Hanoi City Education and Trainning Department's new prograame of classes for street children which combine education with life skills and vocational training to impart them with the ability to live better and earn more.

Community-based Initiatives Against Trafficking in Children in the Mekong Sub-Region 2003-2006: Project Completion Report
For over five years now, Save the Children has been striving to address the abuse and exploitation of children in the six countries in the Mekong River basin in Southeast Asia. Here, thousands of children have been falling into the hands of exploitative individuals.This report sets out what we've achieved through this project and what we plan to do in the next phase.

Creating Space for Children’s Participation: Planning with Street Children in Yangon, Myanmar
This report is an evaluation of World Vision's programmes in Yangon and Mandalay to improve the quality of life and status of street and working children in these two cities and when possible, to reintegrate them into mainstream society.

End of Project report: Promoting and Protecting the Human Rights of Street Children Within the Juvenile Justice System
End of project report for UPCIDS-PST, Child Hope Asia, Preda, Freelava and Tambayan Project Promoting and Protecting the Human Rights of Street Children within the Juvenile Justice System.

Floating children in China: the problems of street, migrating, trafficked children, out of school and out of place
This paper examines the dominant focus on adults' perceptions and responses to the `problem’ of street children in China, presenting the voices of some street children as both a counter to prevailing social views and as offering different solutions.

How and Why we Work: Child Workers in the Informal Economy in Phnom Penh and Battambang
This report details the findings of research conducted into the scope, magnitude, dynamics and impact of the worst types of child labour in Phnom Penh and Battanbang.

Hubs and Centres for Developing Children's Participation and Child Protection in China
This report looks at the role children's centres can play in developing children's participation and child protection services in China. Centres' physical spaces can also act as hubs, providing focal points for coordination, training, and services for child protection. The report aims to promote this area of work among all agencies concerned with children in China, and lists key activities that centres and hubs should provide.

Human Rights Watch Report on Street Kid Abuse Rebuffed
Article reporting Vietnam's Ministry of Foreign Affairs rejection of a Human Rights Watch report which claimed that street children were treated "brutally" in rehabilitation centres in the capital.

Life without Basic Service ''Street Children Say''
This study builds on the learning of Street Diary (Save the Children UK, 2001), giving theopportunity for a group of children to represent their own analysis of their situation. Itexamines the human and emotional dimension of life on the street. This is not astatistical or quantitative research but is representative of the feelings of children livingon the street about their lives and organisations working with them.

Listen, secrets! Issues and research by children affected by HIV/AIDS
Listen, Secrets! summarises a programme of child-focused and child-led research in two areas of China that are heavily affected by HIV and AIDS. Children were asked to talk about their main concerns, to discuss how they define children in difficulties, and how HIV and AIDS affects their lives.The report details the process and findings, including the participatory research methods used. It concludes with recommendations put forward by the children.

Monitoring and Evaluation ReportChildhope Asia (CHAP)
Evaluation report on the street educators programme run by Childhope Asia.

National Policy Forum: Promotion of improved Learning Opportunities for Street Children in Indonesia
This study aims to examine the policies issued by the government in response to EFA and their impacts specifically on street children within the context of their access to education.

Networking for Policy Change: An Advocacy Training Manual

Organizational Diagnosis for Advocacy
When groups are considering advocacy, it is helpful for them to assess what advocacy actually can offer their organization, what some of the benefits and risks might be and what organizational barriers might influence their success.

Painted Gray Faces – Behind Bars and in the Streets: Street Children and the Juvenile Justice System in the Philippines Part 1
This paper provides an overview of the situation of Filipino street children and children in conflict with the law (CICL) as well as the status of the Philippine juvenile justice system. Within the context of traditional culture, social organization and local setting, the work provides a demographic and qualitative description of Filipino street children and CICL and their families.

Painted Gray Faces – Behind Bars and in the Streets: Street Children and the Juvenile Justice System in the Philippines Part 2
This paper provides an overview of the situation of Filipino street children and children in conflict with the law (CICL) as well as the status of the Philippine juvenile justice system. Within the context of traditional culture, social organization and local setting, the work provides a demographic and qualitative description of Filipino street children and CICL and their families.

Painted Gray Faces – Behind Bars and in the Streets: Street Children and the Juvenile Justice System in the Philippines Part 3
This paper provides an overview of the situation of Filipino street children and children in conflict with the law (CICL) as well as the status of the Philippine juvenile justice system. Within the context of traditional culture, social organization and local setting, the work provides a demographic and qualitative description of Filipino street children and CICL and their families.

Philippines: Conflict, Poverty Drive Mindanao Children to the Streets
Article on the underlying causes for the increase in children living in the streets of Zamboanga, a mixed Christian-Muslim town in the southern Filipino island of Mindanao.

Practical Approaches to Addressing Child Protection Issues in Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Vietnam
This study presents the hopes of children as being for basic rights. They include greater access to education and health care; safety both within the family and outside it; justice; the opportunity to develop, to be heard, to play; and freedom from fear, violence, armed conflict and oppression. It calls for collaboration across all sectors in order to promote change and ensure the realisation of children's rights.

Preventing child exploitation on the streets in the Philippines
Article on the work of Child Hope Asia with street children in the Philippines.

Report on the Implementation of the Mobile Education Van
Report on the implementation of Child Hope's Mobile Education Van used by street educators in their advocacy and alternative education sessions with street children.

Report on the Policy Forum on Education For All Alternative Learning System (EFA-ALS) Among Street and Urban Poor Children
Report on the Policy Forum on Education For All Alternative Learning System (EFA-ALS) Among Street and Urban Poor Children held by Childhope Asia Philippines.

Spot Light: Street Kids Facing Bleak Future... Unless they Can Bend it Like Beckham
Article on the barriers children of Filipino refugees in Malaysia face in gaining access to free primary education.

Street and Unsupervised Children of Mongolia
This report provides an overview of the current situation of street and vulnerable children and those children in especially difficult circumstances. In addition it provides a framework of intervention on the rehabilitation of street and unsupervised older youth who have a long history of living on the streets and related recommendations on the proposal for a specialised institution for the Ministry of Social Welfare and Labour.

Street Children and Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Trafficking
This paper analyses the vunerability of street children in Thailand to sexual exploitation and trafficking, providing reccomendations for intervention and prevention programmes.

Street Children and Juvenile Justice in the Philippines - Recommendations
Report documenting the challenges and recommendations for the Five Pillars of Justice in the Philippines: law enforcement, prosecution and courts, correction and community.

Street Children in Vietnam an Inquiry into the roots of Poverty and Survival Livelihood Strategies
This report provides an extensive review of the literature on disadvantaged children in Vietnam as well as presenting the findings from field research conducted in Hanoi and the countryside.The study aims to provide researchers and policy makers at the local and national levels, committed to solving the problem of poverty (and in particular affecting children), with new insights, experiences and methodological tools.

Street Children in Vietnam Interactions of Old and New Causes in a Growing Economy
This study examines the problem of street children in Vietnam, a country rapidly growing and integrating with the world, examining the underlying causes which arise from the interaction of traditional causes such as the loss or divorce of parents and new causes such as economic incentive.

Street Musicians Get Another Chance in Indonesia
Article on shelters for street musicians in Java.

Study of Policies and Programmes Addressing the Right of Street Children to Education
This research project analyses the Nepalese government's policies, strategies, and programmes in regard to Non-Formal Education (NFE) for out of school children, particularly street children as their basic fundamental right. Concerned GOs, NGOs, and INGOs working with street children participated in a national NFE case writing workshops and street children interviewwere used to gather data and information. Secondary data and information was collected by reviewing existing reports, documents, and papers produced by GOs, NGOs, and INGOs.

Survey on street-based Child Sexual Exploitation in Cambodia: Overview of seven provinces
This study aims to provide a better understanding of the street-base child sexual exploitation phenomenon outside Phnom Penh and Sihanoukville.

Survey on Substance use among Street Children in Phnom Penh
This report outlines findings from a survey on substance use among street children and vulnerable youth in Phnom Penh.

The Difficulties We Face: Children’s experiences, participation and resilience — views and voices from HIV/AIDS affected central China
This book contains words, drawings and photos by children from a part of central China that is badly affected by HIV/AIDS. Many parents have become infected and died. Children talk about their loneliness and isolation, and their uncertainties and fears about the present and future.

Towards a Strategy to Address Corporal Punishment of Children in Southeast, East Asia and Pacific
This report documents the proceedings of the International Save the Children Alliance Regional Workshop on Corporal Punishment of Children, 6-9 October 2003, Bangkok, Thailand.

Training Workshop on Non-Formal Education Accreditation and Equivalency (NFE A & E) System Among Street Educators
Organized and conducted by Childhope Asia Philippines (CHAP), the Training Workshop on Non-Formal Education Accreditation and Equivalency (NFE A&E) System Among Metro Manila Street Educators was conducted from January 26 to 29, 2005 at Bayview Park Hotel, Manila. The four day Training Workshop is one of the components of the UNESCO Project on "Improved Learning Opportunities for Out-of-School Children" in which four Asian Countries participated, namely Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, and The Philippines.

Unicef to make Cebu City Streetkids’ Program a Model
Article on Unicef's plans to use Cebu City’s initiatives for street children and minor offenders a model not only for other provinces but for other Asian countries as well.

Urban Poverty, ChildhoodPoverty and SocialProtection in China:Critical issues
This paper reviews the problem of urban poverty in China, particularly in relation to its impact on disadvantaged children. It focuses on the breakdown of social safety nets and related issues of social protection for disadvantaged urban children.

Urban Street Children Empowerment and Support:Final Program Report
Report evaluating the Urban Street Children Empowerment and Support programme.

Urban Street Children Empowerment Support: Final Program Report
A detailed report on the circumstances, the work and the progress of the Urban Street Children Empowerment and Support Program. This program is partnered with local NGOs to expand, strengthen and mobilise local responses to address the needs of boys and girls living and working on the street in Surababya, Bandung, Jakarta and Medan.

Vocational Training and Employment for Street Children
An analysis of vocational training and employment options in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Young People and HIV/AIDS: Responding to the new Asian crisis
This report aims to illustrate the approaches used by Save the Children UK to reduce the impact of HIV/AIDS on children across South and South-East Asia and prevent the further spread of HIV/AIDS.

Young People and HIV/AIDS: Responding to the new Asian crisis
This report illustrates how Save the Children is working to reduce the impact of HIV and AIDS on children across South and South-East Asia and how we work with children to prevent the further spread of HIV and AIDS.

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