Operational and Scientific Partners: Centro Internacional de Estudo e Pesquisa sobre a Infância (CIESPI) Institut international des droits de l’enfant (IDE) Rede Rio Criança Terre des hommes – Child Relief (Tdh) LIFE ON THE STREETS CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS ON THE STREETS: INEVITABLE TRAJECTORIES? Publisher: Institut international des droits de l’enfant (IDE) Collection IDE on children’s rights Copyright 007 International Institute for the Rights of the Child (IDE) P.O. Box 476 950 Sion 4 – Switzerland Tel. + 4 (0) 7 05 73 00 – Fax + 4 (0) 7 05 73 0 E-mail:
[email protected] – Web: http://www.childsrights.org Material contained in this publication may be freely quoted or reprinted provided credit is given and a copy of the publication containing the reprinted materials sent to IDE Editorial Committee: Irene Rizzini, CIESPI Udi Mandel Butler, CIESPI Daniel Stoecklin, IDE Credits: Translation from Portuguese: Udi Mandel Butler Supervision: Neide Cassaniga Published in the same collection: Right to education: solution to all problems or problem without solution? (006) Right of children living with disabilities (007) 8 candles. The Convention on the Rights of the Child Reaches Majority (007) 3 Acknowledgements We would like to thank Terre des hommes – Child Relief (Tdh), especially Anselmo Lima, Françoise Correvon and Daniel Stoecklin (at time of the research full time with Tdh) for open- ing their operational projects, sharing their field expertise and providing valuable insight over the course of many years. Tdh generated access to specific funding for the original research project (between October 00 and January 00), for the publication of a book in Portuguese which contains the results of the research and for the translation of the book into English.