Begging
Aug 25 2010, Aaron

Tuija Brax (green), Finland’s justice minister, criticised working group proposals to ban organised begging, regional daily Turun Sanomat reported on Tuesday.

During the summer, the interior ministry’s working group presented a preliminary report...

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Tero, Helsinki
Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen has encouraged the public not to give money to street beggars. Speaking to a gathering of political journalists on Wednesday, Vanhanen...
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Jarno, Helsinki
Amnesty International is calling for greater sensitivity to Europe’s Roma population. They say that ten million Roma live across the continent, and by in large...
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Anthony, Kampala
In the streets of the Ethiopian capital hundreds of disabled people beg, some from makeshift wheelchairs, the less fortunate dragging themselves on their hands from car...
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Somana Riaz, peshawar
These days the city seems to be invaded by beggars who are trained professionals. These include people from all age group even children who have hardly learnt how to...
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View Point, Shimla
Australia has decided to come hard on the begging. In order to do that, a town council in Australia’s Outback has proposed discouraging beggars by slapping them...
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Chris, Perth
A town council in Australia’s Outback has proposed discouraging beggars by slapping them with a 130 Australian dollar ($108) fine, but critics argued Friday that...
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P. T., bahrain
Years of scrounging on the streets of Shahr-e Kord in western Iran meant that Talat Habibian was never anything more than a local beggar to his neighbours. So when he...
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Karim Khan, Peshawar
Where the war-torn Afghanistan suffers from myriad of security, social, and economic challenges, the country’s children are also paying the price. Many of them are...
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A religious student forced to beg for his Quranic teacher walks alongside cars stuck in traffic as he begs for change and food on the outskirts of Dakar, Senegal, Saturday, Aug. 25, 2007. The overwhelming majority of Dakar’s child beggars are sent out...