Breaking the Cycle of Despair: Street Children in Guatemala City

Lave, Tamara

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Breaking the Cycle of Despair: Street Children in Guatemala City

Tamara Rice Lave

University of Miami, School of Law

1995

Columbia Human Rights Law Review, Vol. 27, p. 57, 1995

Abstract:
This article focuses on the problem of street children in Guatemala City. It provides a description of the way street children live and offers several theories as to why the situation arose. Finally, the Article critically discusses attempts to help the street children of Guatemala and proposes alternative solutions. In researching this Article, the author spent time working with street children in Guatemala.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 67

Keywords: street children, Guatemala City, Casa Alianza, human rights abuses

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Date posted: September 27, 2012

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Lave, Tamara Rice, Breaking the Cycle of Despair: Street Children in Guatemala City (1995). Columbia Human Rights Law Review, Vol. 27, p. 57, 1995. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2153276

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Tamara Rice Lave (Contact Author)

University of Miami, School of Law ( email )

P.O. Box 248087
Coral Gables, FL 33146
United States

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