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Child Begging and what to do about it? Terre des Hommes field experience from SEE

Document number
2081
Date
2008
Title
Child Begging and what to do about it? Terre des Hommes field experience from SEE
Author/publisher
Terre des Hommes
Availability
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Document type(s)
Media/News, Meeting Documentation/Conference Reports,
Keywords
Guardian, Family Tracing, Interim Care, Integration, Adoption, Best Interests Principle, Child Victims of Trafficking, Separated Migrant Children, Unaccompanied minors, Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), Child protection systems, Corporate social responsibility, Multi-stakeholder partnerships:
Summary
The Swiss Coordination Unit against the Trafficking in Persons and Smuggling of Migrant (KSMM, see the fact sheet here) has organized a discussion about child begging in Switzerland. This group of specialists wishes to deepen the topic, which is quit new in Switzerland. 

Tdh had the opportunity to present his experiences in South Eastern Europe and to give his best practices to protect children victims of trafficking through begging and other street related activities. Source: Tdh website
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