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The moral right of a group to secede from a state is considered in the case of Native Americans in the US & Canada. It is argued that while secession cannot legally take place in the US, there are valid moral reasons for it to occur: the group no longer seeks to be a member of a state, the group has a valid moral claim to territory, & the group is willing to pay a "secession settlement." Quebec's talk of secession is held to be problematic since the "territory" it would claim would actually be morally the land of the James Bay Crees. It is concluded that talk of secession brings a fresh outlook to Native American rights & that secession should be provided for constitutionally. 20 References. D. Weibel

Draws on ethnographic field research in Haiti to examine the impact of violence on the lives of street children. It has been estimated that almost 500,000 children ages 5-18 live on city streets, where they are treated as a criminal subset of society. The focus is on street children who live in Potay Leyogan, a congested section of Port-au-Prince now called "Kosovo" because of its violence. Interviews conducted with these children in 1999 revealed daily misery & the combative stance taken toward them by paramilitary antigang units of the Haitian National Police, who wrongly associate street children with the activities of poor young men engaged in banditry or the illegal drug trade. Violent "sweeps" routinely carried out by the police are described, along with the incarceration of street kids who have few civil rights & no legal representation. It is contended that there is an urgent need to change perceptions of street children as dangerous social threats, & for Haiti to move away from using paramilitary solutions for social ills. 3 References. J. Lindroth