The United Nations states that all children have the right to a safe and secure childhood. Article 27 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) asserts that

States Parties recognize the right of every child to a standard of living adequate for the child's physical, mental, spiritual, moral and social development.”

Homelessness denies each one of those rights. According to an Inter-NGO Program on street children and youth, a street child is “any girl or boy who has not reached adulthood, for whom the street (in the widest sense of the word, including unoccupied dwellings, wasteland, etc.) has become his or her habitual abode and/or source of livelihood, and who is inadequately protected, directed, and supervised by responsible adults.

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