From the Tdh European Child protection website

Child begging in a public park, outside a mosque or church, at traffic lights, along busy streets and bus-stops, next to your home, in our cities. Although a sad and evident reality of basic child rights violations, this phenomenon is little understood not only in Albania, but also in Europe.

Therefore, in order to develop a sound understanding of this phenomenon’s nature, causes and patterns, in January 2011, the European Commission (EC) and DG Home Affairs commissioned the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) for a research project on child beggin. Covering the area of 13 member countries of the European Union, as[...]

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