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Dept of Labor Bureau of International Labor Affairs INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - In urban areas, children shine shoes, sell goods, and assist transport
operators. Children also work as
small-scale miners, and have been used to sell and traffic drugs. Some children are known to work as
indentured domestic laborers and prostitutes. CURRENT GOVERNMENT
POLICIES AND PROGRAMS TO ELIMINATE THE WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR - In August 2004, the U.S. Department of Agriculture
announced it will provide funds for agricultural commodities for school meals
in Bur of Democracy,
Human Rights & Labor - Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 CHILDREN - Public schooling was provided up
to age 17 or grade 8; the law requires all children to complete at least 5
years of primary school; primary education was free and universal.
Enforcement of the education law was lax, particularly in rural areas, where
more than half of the primary schools offered only three of eight grades. An
estimated 50 percent of children completed primary school, and an estimated
26 percent graduated from high school Physical and psychological abuse
in the home was a serious problem. Corporal punishment and verbal abuse were
common in schools. Children from 11 to 16 years of age may be detained
indefinitely in children's centers for suspected offenses or for their own
protection on the orders of a social worker. The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF)
estimated that approximately 13 thousand children lived in institutions where
their basic rights were not respected. There also were many children living
on the streets of major cities. SECTION 6
WORKER RIGHTS – [d]
Urban children sold goods, shined shoes, and assisted transport operators. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - 2005 [65] The Committee expresses
concern at the rise in the number of street children in the State party. Teatro
Trono: Youth Theater in Bolivia At Teatro
Trono, located in El Alto, a sprawling city
neighboring La Paz, homeless children are the actors, and the plays deal head
on with Bolivia’s harsh reality. Their book, El mañana
es hoy, contains stories
of Teatro Trono told by
the actors. Chila, whose family’s alcoholism forced
him into homelessness at age nine, said the street was his home. There he
united with his friends and shared food, spoils from robberies, and drugs
until he found Trono. "We have reconstructed a
family [for street children]," Nogales says. "Now many of them are
teachers here." Though the theater started out working with homeless
children, Trono now works more on prevention rather
than rehabilitation, with outreach efforts that seek to stop children from
becoming drug addicts. Bolivian
leader opens his doors Bolivian street children got the
best World Cup ticket in town on Friday, invited by football-crazy President Evo Morales to watch the opening match on television at
the presidential palace. SOS
Children: Street Children in Bolivia In Abandoned Street Children
Turn To Drugs The economic realities of stark
poverty are forcing children out of their homes onto Two blue, mobile containers,
filled with computers and connected to the Internet, opened their
doors to street kids and schools of With poor health conditions,
serious diseases, unsafe drinking water, malnutrition, and inadequate
housing, many of There are approximately 400
children ranging in ages from six to 18 who live on the streets of Description And Activities Of Amanecer Amanecer was started by a catholic order,
the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul in 1981. They were motivated by
the increasing number of abandoned children living on the streets of the city
as a result of poor economic conditions.
Many recently unemployed miners were moving to the city in a generally
vain attempt to find work. They live in basic conditions in slums on the edge
of the city with high rates of alcoholism and domestic abuse. Their children
suffered the most with many being abandoned and others running away from
abusive situations. Volunteers helping street children - Bruce Bolivia - S.O.S. Bolivia HOW OUR PROJECT WORKS - We go into the poorest
communities where :the highest concentrations of
out-of-school children can be found: and we recruit them. When we have
enough, we either open our own school or else gain the use of a classroom in
a local state school: and there we begin the rehabilitation and education of
these children. All material used herein
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