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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Independent Appeal: Breaking the cycle of abuse in Ecuador Mothers prostitute themselves in full view of their children. Predatory relatives sexually molest children with the parents doing nothing to stop them. Husbands beat wives in front of children, who are themselves treated like slaves and also beaten. Every sort of child abuse is to be found in the one-room bamboo shacks of La Isla Trinitaria which are built directly over the filthy mangrove swamps at the mouth of the River Guayas. It is the worst urban slum in Ecuador. What they found in the most
benighted neighbourhood in ***
ARCHIVES *** UNICEF
- The Big Picture U.S. Dept
of Labor Bureau of International Labor Affairs INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - In urban areas, children work in commerce and services as
messengers and domestics. Many urban
children under 12 years of age work in family-owned businesses in the informal
sector, including shining shoes, collecting and recycling garbage, selling,
and begging on the streets. Recent
primary school attendance statistics are not available for Bur of Democracy,
Human Rights & Labor - Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 CHILDREN - More than 20 NGOs promoted child
welfare. UNICEF and several private organizations were active in programs to
assist street children. The
children of the poor often experienced severe hardships, particularly in
urban areas. SECTION 6
WORKER RIGHTS – [d]
While the Ministry of Labor's Social Service Directorate monitored child
labor in businesses such as factories, enforcement in most sectors of the
economy remained limited. In urban areas, many children under age 15 worked
in family-owned businesses in the informal sector, shining shoes, collecting
and recycling garbage, or as street
peddlers. Other children were employed in commerce, messenger services,
domestic services, and begging. Children as young as five or six often sold
newspapers or candy on the street
to support themselves or to augment family income. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - 2005 [59] The Committee acknowledges
the remarkable improvement made in the field of education, including the
forthcoming implementation of bilingual education. The Committee also takes
note of the system of measurement of academic achievements (APRENDO).
However, the Committee is concerned at the low public investment in
education, the poor equipment for schools, the limited access to educational
facilities for street children, and the regional disparities in the full
enjoyment of the right to education Independent
Appeal: Breaking the cycle of abuse in Ecuador Mothers prostitute themselves in
full view of their children. Predatory relatives sexually molest children
with the parents doing nothing to stop them. Husbands beat wives in front of
children, who are themselves treated like slaves and also beaten. Every sort
of child abuse is to be found in the one-room bamboo shacks of La Isla Trinitaria which are built
directly over the filthy mangrove swamps at the mouth of the River Guayas. It is the worst urban slum in Ecuador. What they found in the most
benighted neighbourhood in Appendix II / Country Background - Ecuador / Ecuador's
Street Children [DOC] www.streetchildren.org.uk/reports/META%20part5.doc [scroll down]
Most street children are found in Guayaquil
(Ecuador’s largest and most commercial city), and Quito, the national capital,
although small numbers have been present in most of the country’s towns and
cities during the last decade. In absolute terms there are much fewer street
children in Ecuador than in Mexico, but the former is even more poorly
equipped to deal with these youngsters and to prevent others taking to street
life. Investigations show that in 1999
every second child came from a family that was not able to pay for food,
housing, education, and medical care. As a consequence, these children do not
go to school, and 20.5% are forced to start work at ages between 5 and 9
years and 53% between 10 and 14 years. In a country that is struggling
against underemployment and employment, often the only opportunity to offer
itself is prostitution. They then become victims of exploitation by
traffickers and sex tourists. Ecuadorian economic and social conditions A. IMPOVERISHMENT IN ECUADOR - More than 65% of all
Ecuadorians live in extreme poverty.
This means they are unable to satisfy their most basic human
needs: housing, food, healthcare and education. This impoverished population, which is
scarcely able to survive, is being gradually pushed into an ever more
profound deterioration of the human condition. Conditions in the cities and their
surrounding belts of slums can be equally dramatic: entire neighborhoods of hovels,
insufficient or non-existent basic services, high rates of unemployment and
underemployment, the ejection of children into the streets, begging Tainted
Harvest - Child Labor and Obstacles to Organizing on Ecuador's Banana
Plantations CHILD WORKERS - Fewer than 40 percent of these
children were still in school at age fourteen. When asked why they had left
school to work, most answered that they needed to provide money for their
parents to purchase food and clothing for their families, many of whom also relied on the nearby banana plantations for
their income. Though important for their families, the average income
contributed by the children with whom Human Rights Watch spoke was only U.S.
$3.50 for every day worked-roughly 64 percent of the average wage earned by
the adults interviewed by Human Rights Watch and 60 percent of the legal
minimum wage for banana workers. Taking research to the streets www.uoguelph.ca/research/news/articles/2005/January/ecuador_youth.shtml At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
Young children living and working
in the streets are an all-too-common sight in many other cities around the
world. But for ICA
Housing helps street children in Ecuador [PDF] As a contribution to this year’s
ICA Co-operative Day and the UN International Day of Co-operatives, ICA
Housing is helping street children in Many wished to stay in the
streets, so they were taught to work at simple paying jobs--such as washing
cars and cleaning shoes--instead of begging. Phoenix Rising Project - Raising Street Children In
Ecuador With Love aishainternational.com/kids.htm At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
The Phoenix Rising Project is a
self-sustaining, self-contained living community in Using the Internet
as a tool for life The Street Children Telecentre project in Mid-project Progress Report - Exploring connectivity for
street kids www.idrc.ca/en/ev-7378-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
A cultural change is expected when
the computers are introduced in the communities involving street children and
youth. Major change identified is the
change from a verbal communication to a written one. Impact in the long run is unknown. This form of communication has partially
eliminated time, location and language barriers. The use of computers has encouraged them to
improve reading, writing and other language skills. Improvements in fine motility can be
detected. Foundation
for street children, Conocota, Near Quito, Ecuador [scroll down to July 18, 2004] The children get up at four in the
morning on a school day, and each has a task to do. This might involve
feeding the rabbits, of which there are 100 - these are used for food, and
the children slaughter them themselves. Then there’s the ducks, which are for
eggs, and the garden, where food is grown for both the children and the
animals. There are chickens too, but ducks are better because they get sick
less easily. Their eggs taste the same, it turns out. www.worldendeavors.com/Ecuador/_progtype/street-children-assistance-in-ecuador.html www.worldendeavors.com/Ecuador/Program.cfm?ProgramID=52 Children who roam the streets of The
Protection Project - Ecuador [DOC] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - Ecuador’s child labor figures
are reportedly the highest in Latin America. According to a 1999 survey, 45
percent of children between ages 10 and 17 have some type of job. Working
boys are found in the informal sector, the formal sector, agriculture and
livestock raising, and domestic service (in that
order). Who we help in Ecuador www.childrens-trust.org/partners/ecuador/ecuador.html At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
Not only are these children
exposed to violence, sexual abuse, drugs, prostitution and crime, they are
also deprived of their basic right to an education and to a dignified and
secure childhood. All material used herein
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