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Violation of the Rights of the Children of the Street of Lubumbashi and Kipushi in the Province of Upper Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo

DOI: 10.4236/oalib.1103460, PP. 1-7

Subject Areas: Sociology

Keywords: Violation, Rights, Street Children, Lubumbashi and Kipushi, Province of Haut-Katanga

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The street children are girls or boys who have not reached adulthood and for whom the street in general (building abandoned, vacant lots, etc.) has become the habitual residence, and the means existence. In the DRC, many of these children are estimated at 70,000 for the entire country and 20,000 for Kinshasa alone, the number is growing every year. These children living on the streets suffer from extreme poverty and are exposed to daily violation of their rights. We conducted a study that aimed to describe the different types of the rights of street children in violation in the province of Haut-Katanga, Lubumbashi and precisely Kipushi. Their violations include rights to protection, safety and healthy environment, rights to health and food, Education rights, rights to protection against abuse and rights to be protected against the consumption and illicit use of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances. This is a cross descriptive study which was a non-probability sample of convenience. Data collection was conducted among 815 street children, 360 parents and 8 supervisors of street children. The observation with an information guide and an interview with a self-administered questionnaire was used us as data collection techniques. The results of this study show that the rights of street children are subject to violation of Lubumbashi Kipushi. Their violations con- cern in particular the rights to protection (63.4% of cases); the rights to health and to food (78.2%; 68.5% of cases); the right to education (72.3% of cases); the rights to be protected against the consumption and illicit use of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances (87.7% of cases). It takes special attention to children of such a street that provides the international convention on children’s rights.

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Boniface, T. N. P. , Niclette, L. , Zabadi, K. , Ongona, W. , Christian, K. P. , Mabo, J. M. S. , Mariette, K. K. , Sylvie, Y. T. , Kapenda, D. N. , Clarisse, B. K. , Mulongo, P. K. , Bakadia, M. B. and Malemba, G. N. (2017). Violation of the Rights of the Children of the Street of Lubumbashi and Kipushi in the Province of Upper Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Open Access Library Journal, 4, e3460. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/oalib.1103460.

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