Problems Street Children and Protection of thier Rights

The issues of Child Rights, Good Governance and Social Justice are of critical concern to the children of the northern region Bangladesh. Many non government organizations has been striving to establish socio-economic, political and civil rights and social justice to protect the torture, repression and deprivation from the society and reduce violence against children. Now a days it has invested more focus on the rights of the children specially on street children. The organizations has been working in this region which is closed to Indian border and where there exist internationally identified routes of trafficking of women and children. Furthermore, the areas are extremely vulnerable for trafficking and smuggling and there are around 12000 thousands childrens are involved in smuggling.

Many organization conducted different study and survey and gathered data from secondary sources and it revealed that among the children on and average more than 12% are involved in smuggling and as  a result the children are also vulnerable for trafficking. The local people, civil society members and administration know it but they did not take any precautionary measures.

We need to address these problems through interventions that will enhance the implementation capacity of the Community Based Organization (CBO) and Union & Gram Parishad,, Civil Society members, religious leaders and foster people’s participation at all levels of people living in rural area. Civil society members include journalists and advocates who work to protect the rights of the poor and to reduce violence against children.

The primary stakeholders are: The proposed project will work mainly with the poor and hardcore poor  children.
The secondary stakeholders are: Secondary stakeholders are Local Elected Bodies (LEBs), Upazilla Officials, Teachers, Journalists, Imam, Priest, Bishop, Community Leaders, Lawyers, Personnel of Youth Clubs, NGO’s staff,

The key activities can be implemented to protect the rights of street children are as follows:

(a)    Initial activities: The project will gather baseline information for measuring progress during and at the end of the project.
(b)    Intervention activities:
1.1: Community meeting, 1.2: Street and extremely vulnerable children selection, 1.3. Rights Protection Committee formation with children
2.1: Members selection for rights surveillance committee 2.2: Union and Upazila level rights Surveillance committee formation,
3.1 Continuous rights violation and violence monitoring by surveillance committee and RPC members 3.2. Legal support
4.1. Development folk song, and drama on local issues 4.2. Deliver at local level
4.1 Participants selection, 5,2: Training, sharing session and orientation
5.1. Identifying children out of school 5.2. Ensure their enrollment in existing formal and non-formal school.
5.1 Rapport, relation and coordinate among the development actors, local governments and  service providers established and participants managed their services from the service providers. 6.1 Awareness raising; 6.2: Leaflet and poster distribution 6.3: meeting and sharing session with APC members (children) 6.4: Rally and 6.5: Day Observation and 6.6: Child Fair (grand program through arranging stall, folk song, drama etc).
8.1: Advocacy  and Networking 8.2: Media Campaign 8.3: Press Conference 

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