A project of the International Center for Research and Policy on Childhood (CIESPI) at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)
Project update
We are pleased to report that the Council on Children’s Rights for the Municipality of Rio de Janeiro2 has formally adopted a new policy on children in the situation of the streets. That policy can be found at the CIESPI web site (www.ciespi.org.br). This marks the first time that a new policy on street children has been adopted through the mechanism of thorough and extensive debate in a municipal Council. CIESPI is pleased to have been able to provide the Rio Council with relevant research data during its deliberations and to have helped to facilitate some of those discussions. October 2009.

A project of the International Center for Research and Policy on Childhood at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (CIESPI at PUC Rio)

This is the first newsletter of an exciting new project at CIESPI. We wish to share the progress of the project with our many partners and colleagues and we invite your comments on the work. CIESPI facilitates broad dialogue to improve policies for children in the situation of the streets2 in Rio de Janeiro.
In July 2008, CIESPI began a new project to inform and assist the work of the Rio de Janeiro Council on the Rights of Children and Youth as the Council works to approve a formal written policy to improve services for children on the streets. The project is part of one of CIESPI’s major areas of inquiry: Children, Youth, Poverty and Inequality: A Challenge to Human Rights. April 2009.