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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 Appendix II
/ Country Background - Ecuador / Ecuador's Street Children [DOC] Most street children are found in 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 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 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 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. July
18, 2004 - Foundation for street children, Conocota,
Near Quito, Ecuador 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. Children who roam the streets of 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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