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In Brazil, the term "street children" is also relatively new; only in the last 20 years has it become a part of everyday language. [4] There is a lack of cohesion within the community of researchers interested in Latin American research.
The Candelária Church is a famous historic Roman Catholic church in central Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The church itself and the buildings around it in Pius X Square became known as a popular location for possibly hundreds of Rio de Janeiro's street children to form a makeshift home at night. The church's personnel provides food, shelter ...
Social apartheid is tied to the exclusion of poor youth (particularly street youth) from Brazilian society. [ 13] Some political theorists assert the role of the police in keeping the inhabitants of Brazil's many favelas from encroaching on the lives of middle- and upper-class Brazilians is key to maintaining this state of apartheid.
Street children. Gavroche, a fictional character in the historical novel Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, is inspired by the street children who existed in France in the 19th century. Street children are poor or homeless children who live on the streets of a city, town, or village. Homeless youth are often called street kids, or urchins; the ...
The first Street Child World Cup was held in Durban, South Africa, in March 2010 [1] [2] The event brought together teams of street children and former street children from Brazil, South Africa, Nicaragua, Ukraine, India, the Philippines and Tanzania. The participants were between 14 and 16 years old at the time of the event and all had ...
The Altamira child emasculations refers to a series of crimes that occurred in the municipality of Altamira, in Pará, Brazil, which involved boys aged 8–14.They were kidnapped, maimed and killed between 1989 and 1993.
The New York Times film critic, Vincent Canby, liked the neo-realist acting and direction of the drama, and wrote, "[Pixote], the third feature film by the Argentine-born Brazilian director Hector Babenco, is a finely made, uncompromisingly grim movie about the street boys of São Paulo, in particular about Pixote - which, according to the ...
Around 10 p.m., two officers assigned to the hotspot division had just made a drug arrest on De Soto Street and were in the process of transporting the suspect to the Harris County Jail.