Reflections on a Brazilian Project to Improve Policies for Street Children
This report describes successful attempts in Rio de Janeiro and several other cities in Brazil to develop, for the first time, policies to assist street children through the federally mandated mechanism of Children’s Rights Councils. In Brazil there is a wide gap between legal rights guaranteed to children and their daily lives.
The subject of our concern, children in the situation of the streets, refers to urban children who fall into two groups: a small group who spend their days and nights on the street; and a much larger group who spend their days on the street hustling for loose change and hanging out, but who spend their nights in a variety of unstable accommodations off the streets.
Resource collections
- Topics
- UN Habitat - Urban Response Collection
- Urban Response - Urban Crisis Preparedness and Risk Reduction
- Urban Response Collection - Community Engagement and Social Cohesion
- Urban Response Collection - Economic Recovery
- Urban Response Collection - Environment and Climate Change
- Urban Response Collection - Housing, Land and Property
- Urban Response Collection - Urban Crisis Response, Recovery and Reconstruction
- Urban Response Collection - Urban Resilience
