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Disability |
The needs and rights of disabled children are frequently
overlooked, since they experience a double invisibility: of being a child
and of being a disabled person. Lack of awareness means that unless disabled
children are specifically mentioned, they become marginalised within the general
children’s agenda.
Girls with impairments suffer still further discrimination: they are more
likely not to survive, to be abandoned, to be discriminated against, to be
excluded from education, to be deemed unmarriageable and to be excluded from
motherhood and general participation in their society.
Disabled people are the poorest of the poor in every country in the
world. Some 97 per cent of disabled children in developing countries are
without any form of rehabilitation and 98 per cent without any education;
they suffer more violence and abuse than other children and are often shut away
in institutions, cupboards and sheds, and even starved to death.
Until recently, disability and child policies have been paternalistic, based on
charitable interventions as opposed to rights. Neither disabled children
nor children in general are used to being listened to, and society has
strong negative expectations and assumptions concerning their perceived
competence in expressing their views and participating in policy and planning.
Source:
http://www.crin.org/themes/ViewTheme.asp?id=5
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Consequences
of Child Poverty |
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 Hunger
Poor children
daily face the problem of lack of food. The hunger is the most common
consequence of child poverty.
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Homeless
Child poverty leaves children on the street
without a roof over its head. Homelessness disallows children to educate and
health care.
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