Young Assassins of the Drug Trade
For the children of Medellin, drug trafficking brings the fantasy of wealth and the reality of death. First it becomes ...
The Struggle for Citizenship and Human Rights
The Child and Adolescent Statute (Estatuto da Crianfa e do Adolescente), passed into law in 1990 by the Brazilian national ...
The Rights of Children
The Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on November ...
The Precarious Situation of Latin America’s Children
The most visible tragedy in Latin American cities has been the appearance of millions of street children. Like the tip ...
The National Movement of Children
The National Movement of Street Children (Movimento Nacional de Meninos e Meninas de Rua, or MNMMR), a voluntary NGO, was ...
