General works

9. L’action sociale des villes en faveur des enfants, des jeunes et des familles: colloque international de l’A.I.M.F., Abidjan, 12-14 janvier 1995, s.l.: Association Internationale des Maires et responsables des capitales et métropoles partiellement ou entièrement Francophones (A.I.M.F.), 1995, 235 p.

9a. ADICK, Christel (eds.). Straßenkinder und arbeitende Kinder. Sozialisationstheoretische, historische und kulturvergleichende Studien, Frankfurt/Main : IKO, 1997, 305 p.


10. AGNELLI, Susanna (présenté par). Les enfants de la rue: l'autre visage de la ville: rapport à la Commission indépendante sur les questions humanitaires internationales, Nancy, France: Berger Levrault, Collection Mondes en devenir, 1986, 139, [8] p.

11. AGNELLI, Susanna (presented by). Street children: a growing urban tragedy: a report for the Independent Commission on International Humanitarian Issues, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986, 123, [8] p.

12. ALLSEBROOK, Annie; SWIFT, Anthony. Broken promise, Sevenoaks, Kent: Hodder & Stoughton, 1989, xi, 241 p.

13. APTEKAR, Lewis. Street children in the developing world: a review of their condition, Cross-Cultural Research, Vol. 28, N° 3, 1994, pp. 195-224.

14. BAIZERMAN, Michael. Youth work on the street: community’s moral compact with its young people, Childhood, Vol. 3, N° 2, May 1996, pp. 157-165.

15. BALANON, Lourdes G. Street children: strategies for action, Child Welfare, Vol. 68, N° 2, March-April 1989, pp. 159-166.

16. BARKER, Gary; KNAUL, Felicia. Exploited entrepreneurs: street and working children in developing countries, New York: Childhope-USA, 1991, 17 p. (Working paper; N° 1)

17. BARRETTE, Michel J. Street children need our care, Pretoria, South Africa: Kagiso Publishers, 1995, xii, 172 p.

18. BAYLISS, Sarah. Cold comforts, Times Educational Supplement, N° 3988, December 4, 1992, pp. 51-53.

19. BEMAK, Fred. Street researchers: a new paradigm redefining future research with street children, Childhood, Vol. 3, N° 2, May 1996, pp. 147-156.

20. BLACK, Maggie. Street and working children: summary report of the Innocenti Global Seminar on working and street children, Florence, Italy, 15-25 February 1993, Florence, Italy: ICDC, 1993, 56 p. (Innocenti global seminar reports; N° 4)

21. BOYDEN, Jo; HOLDEN, Pat. Children of the cities, London; New Jersey: Zed Books, 1991, viii, 152 p.

22. BÜCHLER, Peter. Wenn die Strasse zur Heimat wird: Strassenkinder in den Slums der Dritten Welt, Luzern, die Schweiz: Caritas Schweiz, 1989, 96 S.

23. Bureau International Catholique de l'Enfance (avec la participation de Marie-Jeanne COLONI). Sans toit ni frontière: les enfants de la rue, Paris: Fayard, 1987, 422 p.

24. BURT, Martha R. Alternative methods to estimate the number of homeless children and youth: final report, Washington, D.C.: Urban Institute, 1991, viii, 46, [12] p.

25. CHEVALLIER, Eric (sous la direction de). L’enfant et la ville: urbanisme, santé et socialisation, Paris: Syros, 1993, 326 p.

26. COIGNARD, Sophie. Les quatre vies du père Lefort, Le Point, N° 1181, Mai 1995, pp. 98-102

27. Coloquio Internacional Mayors for Children, Maires pour les Enfants, 5 y 6 Julio 1993, Mexico: UNICEF; Ciudad de Mexico, 1993, 84 p.

28. Consortium for Street Children: documentation to date, October 1992, London: s.n., 1992, 1 v.

29. COSGROVE, J. Towards a working definition of street children, International Social Work, Vol. 33, 1990, pp. 185-192.

30. DIMITRIJEVIC, Vojin (predgovor). Deca ulice: rastuca gradska tragedija: izveštaj pripremljen za nezavisnu Komisiju za medunarodna humanitarna pitanja, Beograd: Medunarodna politika, 1986, 165 p.

30a. Enfants de la rue - Rapport du Projet de l'Institut Henry-Dunant, Genève: Comité international de la Croix-Rouge; Fédération internationale des Sociétés de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge, 2000, 65 p.

30b. ENNEW, Judith; SWART-KRUGER, Jill. "
Introduction: Homes, Places and Spaces in the Construction of Street Children and Street Youth", Children, Youth and Environments, Vol 13, No.1, Spring 2003.

31. ENNEW, Judith. "Outside childhood: street children’s rights", in FRANKLIN, Bob (ed.). The handbook of children’s rights: comparative policy and practice, London; New York, NY: Routledge, 1995, xiii, 248 p., pp. 201-214.

32. ENNEW, Judith; MILNE, Brian. The next generation: lives of third world children, London: Zed Books, 1989, 226 p.

33. ENNEW, Judith; MILNE, Brian. Kinder, die nicht Kind sein dürfen: Leben und Überleben in der Dritten Welt: mit der UNO-Rede Richard von Weizsäckers und dem vollständigen Text der Erklärung der Rechte des Kindes sowie der Konvention über die Rechte des Kindes, München, Deutschland: C.H. Beck, 1991, 173 S.

33a. ENSIGN, J. "Ethical issues in qualitative health research with homeless youths.", Journal of Advanced Nursing, Vol. 43, No. 1, 2003, pp. 43-50.


34. European Conference on Street Children Worldwide, 20-23 June 1996, Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands: conference report, Brussels: Foundation European Network on Street Children Worldwide, 1996, 129 p.

35. FONTAINE, Jean-Jacques. Enfants de la rue: cesser de les faire "inexister"..., Genève, Suisse: Terre des hommes Suisse, 1987, 50 p.

36. Freibeuter im Elend: Strassenkinder weltweit, Osnabrück, Deutschland: Terre des hommes, 1994, 36 p.

37. GREENBLATT, Milton; ROBERTSON, Marjorie J. Life-styles, adaptive strategies, and sexual behaviors of homeless adolescents, Hospital and Community Psychiatry, Vol. 44, N° 12, December 1993, pp. 1177-1180.

38. Guidelines for the application of the methodological guide on situation analysis of children in especially difficult circumstances: prepared during the workshop held in Bogotá, Colombia, May 15-19, 1989, Bogotá: UNICEF; Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean, 1989, 114 p. (Regional Programme "Children in Especially Difficult Circumstances", Methodological series; N° 8)
(available in French, Spanish and Portuguese)

38a. HARMSE, Marthi ; POTHAS, Anne-Marié ; WELT, Andries G. de. "Action research on operations research for street children", Systemic Practice and Action Resaerch, Vol. 15, No.1, February 2002, pp. 37-49. (
Abstract)

39. HOROWITZ, Sandra V.; BOARDMAN, Susan K.; REDLENER, Irwin. Constructive conflict management and coping in homeless children and adolescents, Journal of Social Issues, Vol. 50, N° 1, 1994, pp. 85-98.

40. HUTZ, Claudio S.; KOLLER, Silvia H.; BANDEIRA, Denise R. Ethical issues in research with street children, Pôrto Alegre, Brazil: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, [1995], 16 p.
this entry can also be found in : DAMON, W. (Org. Série) LARSON, R. ; RAFFAELLI, M. (Org. Volume), New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, No. 85, 1999, pp. 59-70

41. KAMINSKY, Donald C. Street children, World Health, N° 4, July-August 1995, pp. 26-27.
(available in French, Russian and Spanish)

42. International Colloquium of Mayors: Final Report, Dakar, Senegal, 8-9 January 1992, New York, NY: UNICEF, 1992, 1 v.

43. KENNEDY, Stanislaus (ed.). Streetwise: homelessness among the young in Ireland and abroad, Dublin: The Glendale Press, 1987, 160, [8] p.

43a. LALOR, Kevin J. Street children: a comparative perspective, Child Abuse & Neglect, Volume 23, Issue 8, August 1999, pp. 759-770.

43b. LE ROUX, Johann. "The worldwide phenomenon of street children: conceptual analysis", Adolescence, vol. 31, No. 124, 1996, pp. 965-971. (abstract)

44. Los niños de la calle: estudio realizado por el Instituto de Estudios y Formación de Cruz Roja Española, en colaboración con el equipo de investigación sociológica, Madrid: Cruz Roja Española, 1987, 346 p.

45. LUCCHINI, Riccardo. Street children: a complex reality, Fribourg, Switzerland: Institute for Economic and Social Sciences, 1993, 23 p. (Working paper; N° 224)

46. LUCCHINI, Riccardo. The street girl: prostitution family and drug, Fribourg, Switzerland: Institute for Economic and Social Sciences, 1994, 41 p. (Working paper; N° 243)

47. LUCCHINI, Riccardo. The child and the street, Fribourg, Switzerland: Institute for Economic and Social Sciences, 1995, 50 p. (Working paper; N° 251)

48. MACLAUGHLIN, Wendy W. Homeless children’s perspectives as whole self, Laie, HI: Brigham Young University, Department of Nursing, Thesis (M.S.), 1991, vi, 73 p.

49. MARTINS, Susana B.; EBRAHIM, G. J. Street children, Journal of Tropical Pediatrics, Vol. 39, N° 5, October 1993, pp. 264-268.

50. Methodological guide on situation analysis of children in especially difficult circumstances: prepared during the workshop held in Lima, Peru, March 1988, Bogotá: UNICEF; Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean, 1988, 60 p. (Regional Programme "Children in Especially Difficult Circumstances", Methodological series; N° 6)
(available in French, Spanish and Portuguese)

51. MOLNAR, Janice M.; RATH, William R.; KLEIN, Tovah P. Constantly compromised: the impact of homelessness on children, Journal of Social Issues, Vol. 46, N° 4, 1990, pp. 109-124.

51a. PANTER-BRICK, Catherine; SMITH, Malcom T. (eds). Abandoned children, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000, 231 p.

51b. PANTER-BRICK, Catherine. "Street children and their peers : Perspective on hoemlessness, poverty, and healt", in
SCHWARTZMAN, Helen B. (ed.), Westport. Conn. Greenwood, Bergin & Garvey, 2001, 224 p., pp. 83-97.

51c. PARE, Mona."Why have street children disappeared? – The role of international human rights law in protecting vulnerable groups", The International Journal of Children's Rights, Vol. 11, No. 1, Mar 2003, pp. 1 - 32.


52. ROMERO, F. Children of the streets, The UNESCO Courier, October 1991, pp. 16-18.
(available in Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish)

53. RUBERTI, Alessandra. I bambini di strada: una realtà che sta crescendo, Affari Sociali Internazionali, N° 4, 1995, pp. 197-207.

54. SOMAZZI, Rita (a photographic kit prepared by). Who are the street children?: a teaching kit for 10- to 17-year old students, Geneva: UNICEF, 1990, 28 slides, 10 pictures.
(available in French)

55. SPECHT, Walther (Hrsg). Strassenfieber, Stuttgart, Deutschland: Diakonisches Werk der EKD, 1991, 242 S.

56. World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts. Street children: struggling against the odds, World Issues, 1992, 8 p.
(available in French and Spanish)

57. SZANTON BLANC, Cristina. Urban children in distress: an introduction to the issues, Florence, Italy: ICDC, 1992, 70 p. (Innocenti occasionnal papers, Urban children in difficult circumstances series; N° 2)

58. SZANTON BLANC, Cristina (with contributors). Urban children in distress: global predicaments and innovative strategies, Langhorne, PA [etc.]: Gordon & Breach; Florence: ICDC, 1994, xxx, 481 p.

59. TAYLOR, Max; VEALE, Angela. "Rethinking the problem of street children: parallel causes and interventions", in CARR, Stuart C.; SCHUMAKER, John F. (eds.). Psychology and the developing world, Wesport, CT: Praeger, 1996, vi, 236 p., pp. 90-99.

60. TESSIER, Stéphane (sous la direction de). L'enfant et son intégration dans la cité: expériences et propositions, Paris: Syros, 1994, 182 p.

61. TESSIER, Stéphane (sous la direction de). L’enfant des rues et son univers: ville, socialisation et marginalité, Paris: Syros, 1995, 227 p.

62. TESSIER, Stéphane (sous la direction de). Langages et cultures des enfants des rues, Paris: Karthala, 1995, [20], 146 p.
63. TURI, Anna Maria (dossier préparé par). Jeunes des rues: des journalistes prennent position, Genève, Suisse: Union Catholique Internationale de la Presse, 1993, 268 p.

64. VAN BEERS, Henk. A plea for a child-centred approach in research with street children, Childhood, Vol. 3, N° 2, May 1996, pp. 195-201.

65. VANISTENDAEL, Stefan. Street children: problems or persons?, Geneva, Switzerland: ICCB, 1995, 2nd ed., 24 p.
(available in French)

66. 4. internationales Symposium mobile Jugendarbeit: Leben und Überleben von Mädchen und Jungen auf der Straße: gemeinwesenorientierte Hilfeansätze, Diakonisches Werk der EKD, 24. bis 27. September 1991, Stuttgart, Hospitalhof, Stuttgart, Deutschland: Diakonisches Werk der EKD, 1991, 100 S.

67. WERNA, Edmundo. Urban solutions to the children’s problematique: comments on UNICEF’s Urban Policy Agenda, Habitat International, Vol. 20, N° 1, pp. 139-144.

68. WILLIAMS, Christopher. Who are "street children"?: a hierarchy of street use and appropriate responses, Child Abuse & Neglect, Vol. 17, N° 6, November-December 1993, pp. 831-841.

68a. YOUNG, Lorraine; BARRETT, Hazel."Ethics and participation: reflections on research with street children", Ethics, Place and Environment, Vol. 4, No. 2, 2001, p. 130-134.


Social work with street children

68b. ALVES, Paola Biasoli; KOLLER, Sílvia Helena ; SILVA, Aline S. ; REPPOLD, Caroline ; SANTOS, Clarisse ; BICHINHO, Gabriela S. ; PRADE, LuicianoT. ; SILVA, Milena R. ; TUDGE, Jonathan. "A construção de uma metodologia observacional para o estudo de crianças em situação de rua: criando um manual de codificação de atividades cotidianas", Estudos de Psicologia, vol. 4, No. 2, 1999, pp. 289-310. (abstract)

69. ENNEW, Judith. Street and working children: a guide to planning, London: Save the Children, 1994, 184 p. (Development Manuel 4)

70. Methodological guide for the evaluation of programmes for children in especially difficult circumstances: working and street children, Bogotá: UNICEF; Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean, 1989, 72 p. (Regional Programme "Children in Especially Difficult Circumstances", Methodological series; N° 5)
(available in French, Spanish and Portuguese)

71. PIERPAOLI, Yvette. Femme aux mille enfants: du Cambodge à la Bolivie, un combat pour faire naître l’espoir, Paris: R. Laffont, 1992, 401 p.

71a. VOLPI, Elena. Street Children: Promising Practices and Approaches, Washington, D.C.: World Bank Institute, 2002, viii, 31 p.

Description of projects

72. Bureau International Catholique de l'Enfance (avec la participation de Marie-Jeanne COLONI). Sans toit ni frontière: les enfants de la rue, Paris: Fayard, 1987, 422 p.

73. International directory of organizations working with street children, s.l.: Childhope, 1988, 86 p.

74. Resource Directory: funding, technical resources and advocacy offered to projects for street living and working children, London: Consortium for Street Children UK, 1996, 129 p.

75. The sexual exploitation of children: field responses, Geneva, Switzerland: International Catholic Child Bureau, 1991, 199 p.

76. Working with street children: selected case-studies from Africa, Asia, and Latin America, Paris: UNESCO Publishing; ICCB, 1995, 304 p.
(available in French and Spanish)



Education

77. DAVE, R. H.; RANAWEERA, A. M.; SUTTON, P. J. Meeting the basic learning needs of out-of-school children: non-formal approaches, Hamburg, Germany: UNESCO Institute for Education, 1990, 31 p.

78. WILSON, Paul R. Educating street kids: a ministry to young people in the charism of Edmund Rice, New York, NY: Alba House, 1991, xii, 95 p.



Health / Psychology

79. ATHEY, Jean L. HIV infection and homeless adolescents, Child Welfare, Vol. 70, N° 5, September-October 1991, pp. 517-528.

80. Comentario: el SIDA y los niños de la calle: un llamendo urgente a la acción, Boletín de la Ofícina Sanitaria Panamericana, Vol. 117, N° 1, Julio de 1994, pp. 84-88.

81. ENGLISH, Abigail. Runaway and street youth at risk for HIV infection: legal and ethical issues in access to care, Journal of Adolescent Health, Vol. 12, N° 7, November 1991, pp. 504-510.

82. HIV and street youth, AIDS Education and Prevention, Supplement, 1992, 93 p.

83. HOLDEN, E. Wayne; HORTON, Lisa A.; DANSECO, Evangelina R. The mental health of homeless children, Clinical Psychology: Science & Practice, Vol. 2, N° 2, Summer 1995, pp. 165-178.

83a. PANTER-BRICK, Catherine. Street children, human rights and public health : a critique and future directions, Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 31, October 2002, pp. 147-171.

83b. ROHDE, Luís A. ;  FERREIRA, Maria Helena M. ; ZOMER, Andréa ; FORSTER, Letícia ; ZIMMERMANN, Heloisa. "The impact of living on the streets on latency children’s friendships", Revista de Saúde Pública, vol. 32, No. 3, 1998, pp. 273-280.


Drugs

84. A one-way street?: report on phase I of the street children project, Geneva, Switzerland: WHO, Programme on Substance Abuse, 1993, 70 p.
(available in French)

84a. FORSELLEDO, Ariel Gustavo. Niñez en Situación de Calle : Un Modelo de Prevención de las Farmacodependencias basado en los Derechos Humanos, Montevideo, Uruguay: Instituto Interamericano del Niño, 2002, segunda edición, 43 p.

85. LOWRY, Christopher. Reaching street youth on substance abuse, World Health Forum, Vol. 16, N° 2, 1995, pp. 131-134.
(available in Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish)

86. Solvent abuse: report of WHO consultation, Geneva, 7-9 December 1992, Geneva, Switzerland: WHO, Programme on Substance Abuse, 1993, 41 p.
(available in French)

87. Street children project: report of inaugural meeting of participating centres, 3-7 February 1992, Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland: WHO, Programme on Substance Abuse, 1992, 20 p.

88. VELASQUEZ, E. The street children and the services for the drug abuse treatment access and accessibility, Geneva, Switzerland: WHO, Programme on Substance Abuse, 1991, ii, 44 p.



Human rights


88a. BYRNE, Iain. The Human Rights of Street and Working Children : A Practical Manual for Advocates, London : ITDG Publishing, 1999, 320p.

88b. Consortium for Street Children UK. Calling for a Special rapporteur on Street Children, Written submission to the Committee on the Rights of the Child for its day of general discussion, 22 September 2000, London: Consortium on Street Children UK, August 2000, 12 p.

89. DALGLISH, Peter (UN). The myth of Fagin: the instrumental use of street children in criminal activities: report prepared for the crime prevention and criminal justice branch, United Nations office at Vienna, Toronto, Canada: Street Kids International, 1992, 25 p.

90. MUNTARBHORN, Vitit. The Convention on the Rights of the Child: reaching the unreached?, Bulletin of Human Rights, 91/2, pp. 66-74.
(available in French)

90a. PANTER-BRICK, Catherine. Street children, human rights and public health : a critique and future directions, Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 31, October 2002, pp. 147-171.

91. PEREZ AGUIRRE, Luis. Measures of protection for minors: the cases of street children and the increase of violence against them, SOS Torture, November-December 1995, pp. 4-10.
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