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Edited by Dominic A. D’Abate and William S. Rowe,
Conference Proceeding (includes English and French texts)
Collection « Études sociales », 343 pages

Poverty is an omnipresent and destructive plague whose principal victims are children: it afflicts one child in three in the developing countries; and one in five in industrialized countries. Globally, more than 650 million children live in abject poverty and in families whose income is lower than 1 $ per day. These children are victims of malnutrition, disease, illiteracy, exploitation and abuse. Worse still, are the millions of children who die each year because of our collective failure to generate the necessary changes to social policies and because of the lack of concerted efforts to adequately solve these problems. And this does not include the great number of children who also suffer from emotional, psychological, social and spiritual poverty.

More than 100 conference speakers (specialists, thinkers, scientists and community workers) from all over the world met at the invitation of the Organization for the Protection of Children’s Rights (OPCR) in May 2002 in Montreal, within the framework of the 5th International Conference on the Child, in order to analyze the impact that economic, social and political choices can have on poverty and the situation of children.

This collection of texts presents an up to date look at the practices and the stakes dealing with child poverty. It includes more than 25 original and unique texts chosen from the conference presentations and is composed of 3 distinct but complementary sections. A synopsis of the texts in each section can be found at the beginning of each one of the 3 sections. It is designed to be an essential reference tool for all individuals eager to better understand this social problem, to get a good grasp of what is at stake, to better know the principal avenues of solutions, and to contribute to improving the living conditions of children everywhere in the world.



	Children and Poverty : The impact of Our Economic, Social and Political Choices Edited by Dominic A. D’Abate and William S. Rowe, Conference Proceeding (includes English and French texts) Collection « Études sociales », 343 pages Poverty is an omnipresent and destructive plague whose principal victims are children: it afflicts one child in three in the developing countries; and one in five in industrialized countries. Globally, more than 650 million children live in abject poverty and in families whose income is lower than 1 $ per day. These children are victims of malnutrition, disease, illiteracy, exploitation and abuse. Worse still, are the millions of children who die each year because of our collective failure to generate the necessary changes to social policies and because of the lack of concerted efforts to adequately solve these problems. And this does not include the great number of children who also suffer from emotional, psychological, social and spiritual poverty. More than 100 conference speakers (specialists, thinkers, scientists and community workers) from all over the world met at the invitation of the Organization for the Protection of Children’s Rights (OPCR) in May 2002 in Montreal, within the framework of the 5th International Conference on the Child, in order to analyze the impact that economic, social and political choices can have on poverty and the situation of children. This collection of texts presents an up to date look at the practices and the stakes dealing with child poverty. It includes more than 25 original and unique texts chosen from the conference presentations and is composed of 3 distinct but complementary sections. A synopsis of the texts in each section can be found at the beginning of each one of the 3 sections. It is designed to be an essential reference tool for all individuals eager to better understand this social problem, to get a good grasp of what is at stake, to better know the principal avenues of solutions, and to contribute to improving the living conditions of children everywhere in the world. 2-92344-02-2 343 pages Price : $39.95 Category : Conference Proceedings Collection : Social Studies