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FEATURED ARTICLE *** EASMO - Open Air Socio-educational Action Team DESCRIPTION OF THEIR WAY OF LIFE - They live in groups or alone and sleep on cartoons spread on the ground or under market stalls and huddled against each other to protect themselves against the cold weather … they eat remnants from restaurants … they bathe in backwater and wash their clothes there … they treat themselves with medicines exposed in the street or using traditional treatment … the younger ones are victimized by the older ones and use the former to commit reprehensible acts such as stealing, drug sale and pedophilia ***
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Big Picture U.S.
Dept of Labor Bureau of International Labor Affairs INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Children also shine shoes, run errands, watch and wash cars, sell
food in street restaurants, and work as vendors or in sweatshop conditions in
small workshops. Children have been
found working in small businesses, tailor and beauty shops, and manufacturing
and repair shops. There are also large
numbers of street children in the country, particularly in Bur of Democracy,
Human Rights & Labor - Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 CHILDREN - There were an estimated 215
thousand street children in the country, including 50 thousand in Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - 2001 [57] While welcoming the
establishment of a national program for the social settlement and
resettlement of street children, the Committee remains concerned at the
increase in the number of children living in the streets. Information
about Street Children – Cote D’Ivoire [DOC] The inter-ministerial,
multi-disciplinary national committee specially established a few years ago
to assist children in the streets is sadly rarely visible, let alone active
or operational. Children and Youth in Action MAIN DIFFICULTIES ENCOUNTERED - Lack of willingness on the part
of the children to return to their families … Parents fail to visit their
children at the AKWABA center … Lack of financial
assistance … Minors freed from prison prefer to live in the street. The
Carrefour Jeunesse (or Youth Crossroads) of Grand Bassam WAY OF LIFE - Some sleep in the night by market
watchmen … some sleep on busy cinema paths under the protection of the "bellas" … another group that plays poker and consume
drugs is found in Mossou … others also play poker
in the swamps behind the Carrefour Jeunesse center
and sleep at the center. EASMO - Open Air Socio-educational Action Team DESCRIPTION OF THEIR WAY OF LIFE - They live in groups or alone
and sleep on cartoons spread on the ground or under market stalls and huddled
against each other to protect themselves against the cold weather … they eat
remnants from restaurants … they bathe in backwater and wash their clothes
there … they treat themselves with medicines exposed in the street or using
traditional treatment … the younger ones are victimized by the older ones and
use the former to commit reprehensible acts such as stealing, drug sale and
pedophilia Côte
d’Ivoire: A Country in Distress, An Opportunity to Act Roughly 200,000 children
throughout the CHILDREN - There are large populations of
street children in the cities. The Fraternite Matin newspaper reported in 2000 that the number of
street children in the country was 200,000, of which 50,000 were in When A Sentence To
Jail Can Be A Sentence To Death Dozen or so minors being held,
most of whom are street children.
During a short guided tour, it became clear that many detainees were being
held without trial, in extended provisional custody. A female street vendor of unlabeled
medicine had been in custody for 2 years; a 12-year-old boy was thrown in
prison a year ago for smoking cannabis and had never seen his parents or a
lawyer since Stop The Use Of
Child Soldiers In Côte d’Ivoire There must be swift disarmament,
demobilization, rehabilitation and reintegration (DDRR)
of child soldiers. It must include specific arrangements for children,
ensuring health care, education, skills training, family-tracing and
reunification, and responding to the particular needs of girls UNICEF Calls
For Protection Of Vulnerable Children In Côte d'Ivoire In Planning
Intervention Strategies for Child Laborers in Côte d’Ivoire [PDF] [page 61]
8. STREET
CHILDREN - A large
number of street children are found in the cities of Côte d’Ivoire working as
street shoe shiners, errand boys, car watchers and car washers, and selling
in the streets and markets. According to the Fraternite
Matin newspaper, there are 200,000 street children
in the country. There are 50,000 street children in Abidjan alone. Some
children work as domestics. It is reported that these children are often
brutally abused both physically and emotionally by their employers. In 1996
the government initiated steps to reduce the number of street children. One
of the steps included holding parents legally and financially accountable for
their abandoned children. However this was never implemented. All material used herein
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