PHOTO: NIGERIA: In 1997 in Nigeria, three boys who used to live on the streets sit together holding mugs at a remand home for young offenders or abandoned children in Lagos, the country’s commercial capital. Some 10,000 children live on the city’s streets. From broken homes or extremely poor families, they often cannot find steady jobs and are at high risk of turning to drugs or becoming involved in crimes or other violence. (UNICEF/ HQ97-1159/Giacomo Pirozzi)
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Preparing the Study

In preparing the Study report, the Independent Expert drew on a variety of sources, such as questionnaire responses from governments, official statistics and other data and information, reports from States parties under the Convention on the Rights of the Child, expert group meetings, conferences, summits and reports from non-governmental organizations. A call for public submissions was made in mid-2004 and resulted in almost 200 contributions on specific topics, in addition to more than 2000 existing reports. In addition, nine regional consultations were held throughout the world during early 2005, and a range of national processes fed into these. The participation of children and young people has been pivotal throughout these processes including through declarations and focus groups and their direct participation at the regional consultations.

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