Annotated bibliography

Rachel Wallace

Professor Jordan Hayes

English 1A

June 13, 2014

Word count: 954

I have chosen to study street children worldwide and investigate how this will affect our world's future as well as globalization.

1. North Korean street children

Park, Madison. "Orphaned and Homeless: Surviving the Streets of North Korea." CNN.  Cable    

   News  Network, 01 Jan. 1970. Web. 12 June 2014.  

   http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/13/world/asia/.  north-korea-orphans/

This piece discusses children who are homelessness originally from North Korea.  It discusses their migration mainly to China although some make it into South Korea. This article also discusses shortly life while homeless in North Korea. It also discusses what happens to the children once they leave. This is an article that talks of abandoned children, giving personal accounts of their family stories as well as stories of survival in a sometimes fatal transformer shed through the harsh winters.

This information is useful because it gives in depth details on the children once they leave North Korea. Also of their lives in North Korea.  It discusses some dangers that are involved with these children's everyday survival.

2. Overview on street children's common rights violations

"Orphans." Humanium for Childrens Rights. N.p, d. Web. 13 June 2014.

   <http://www.humanium.org/en/orphans/>.

This website consists of recent statistics such as the estimate of around 120 million street children worldwide. With 30 million children being in Africa, the same amount in Asia, and 60 million in South America. It also discusses the amount of orphans, the numbers being, 31 million orphans in India, 71 million in Asia, 59 million in Africa, and 9 million in Latin America and the Caribbean combined. The amount of orphans caused by AIDS/ HIV is 15 million. HIV kills a parent every 15 seconds worldwide. This information is crucial to my project because it holds a lot of valuable, reliable statistics which are extremely helpful and informative.

3. Romanian Street Children

Andronade, Christina. Romanian Street Children. N.p, d. Web. 12 June 2014.  

    <Http://www.stanford.edu/class/e297c/trade_environment/wheeling/hromania.html>.

  In this essay it gives a detailed history of Romania.  The street child epidemic that happened there is directly related to the countries somewhat recent history.  It gives details of the government structure and really spells out for you why this happened from a few different viewpoints.  The essay also gives an analysis to what should be done, as well as a description of the children and prostitution. These children are homeless and sleeping outside because of laws placed on the people.  They were forced to have at least four children to keep the work force strong, as well as the outlaw of abortion and contraceptives.  The government's regulation on so many children and the outlaw on abortion and contraceptives led to many children being born who could not be taken care. The ones born after the regulated four were given up as well as numerous other children, once the government collapsed in the end of the 80's. Not all children were given up though a lot flee their families because of hunger, abuse (both sexual and physical) , and poverty. But all is not lost, the new government launched a "strategy for protection of children's rights".  Romanian street children were what led me to become passionate about this topic.  Their government has failed them in the worst way.  This has led me to research all street children. The Romanian "angels" are the perfect example of what happens when a country's government fails and how it's citizens suffer.

4. Street children homelessness / world statistics

"Street Children and Homelessness." Street Children and Homelessness. N.p, p. Web. 13 June     

   2014. <http://www.cyc-net.org/cyc-online/cycol-0904-Homelessness.html>.

This group discusses child poverty around the world but it connects everything to children's Rights. It talks about article 27 of the CRC.  Talks of India and Latin America being known for having the largest populations of street children.  It discusses that a lot of children are abandoned because of a disability, and around 90% of all street children use narcotics (includes alcohol and cannabis) most huff glue or paint.  An interesting thing this article brought to my attention was that in 1996, 5.5 million children were considered homeless living in the U.S. And that these children were worse off than homeless in other western societies because the U.S. Is less generous with social programs, the huge income gap between the rich and poor, and the high percent of immigrants and teen mothers. This information is important because it gives me a more in depth look at the rights of a child and how they correlate to the world today.  Also it gives me a bigger picture of the huge problem that is street children today.

5. Indian street children

"Charity for Street Children (Kids), Based in Jaipur, India - Teaching, Volunteer, Voluntry Work -

   Jewellery Making." Charity for Street Children (Kids), Based in Jaipur, India - Teaching,

   Volunteer, Voluntry Work - Jewellery Making. N.p, d. Web. 13 June 2014.

   <http://www.i-indiaonline.

This Indian based group discusses the many problems of Indian street children. It offers personal accounts of children they have personally helped, which is over 3,000 children daily. They cover the topics of child labour, gender discrimination, health, homelessness and poverty.  They also provide an extensive list of programs one of which is a child rights program made just for the street kids. The topics covered by this organization are perfect examples of why these children face what they do. It gives an inside, clear view of what is going on in the life of Indian street children, but with a solution, since it is a NGO.