Begging
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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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...
made popular May 27 2010
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...
made popular May 12 2010
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...
made popular Nov 5 2009
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...
made popular Sep 12 2009
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...
made popular Aug 1 2009
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...
made popular Aug 1 2009
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...
made popular Mar 30 2009
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...
made popular Dec 16 2008
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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...
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