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FEATURED ARTICLE *** El Salvador: Where are the "disappeared"
children ? Amnesty International, Index Number: AMR 29/004/2003, 28 July 2003 www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AMR29/004/2003 [accessed 3 February 2011] Thousands of people disappeared in
At Luis Galdamez, Reuters, www.pangaea.org/street_children/latin/elsal4.htm [accessed 10 May 2011] Ever since she was six, Maria
Aguilar has survived on garbage. ``I grew up in the dump,'' the 18-year-old
Aguilar told Reuters, recalling that her mother brought her there one day in
1986. She picks through fetid waste to make a living in the dump, where many
of those who work around her dine on buzzard soup when they can catch one of
the scavengers. ***
ARCHIVES *** UNICEF – www.unicef.org/infobycountry/elsalvador.html [accessed 10 May 2011] The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms
of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/el-salvador.htm [accessed 3 February 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Children from poor families, as well as orphans, work as street vendors
and general laborers in small businesses, primarily in the informal
sector. As of 2000, 72.8 percent of
children who started primary school were likely to reach grade 5. Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61727.htm [accessed 3 February 2011] CHILDREN - There were also reports of PNC
abuse of street children. The
government provided street
children with food, shelter, and healthcare. There were 15 street children housed in ISNA
shelters, but ISNA lacked adequate resources to provide assistance to all street children. Child prostitution was a problem,
and included the commercial sexual exploitation of minors for upper class
clients. Children, especially those living on the streets, were trafficked to other
countries, including for the purpose of sexual exploitation SECTION 6
WORKER RIGHTS – [d]
The government did not devote adequate resources to enforce effectively child
labor laws in the sugar plantations and other agricultural activities and in
the large informal sector. Orphans and children from poor families frequently
worked for survival as street
vendors and general laborers in small businesses. The Ministry of Labor
received few complaints of violations of child labor laws because many
citizens perceived child labor as an essential component of family income
rather than a human rights violation. Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of
the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 30 June 2004 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/elsalvador2004.html [accessed 3 February 2011] [4] The Committee acknowledges
that a series of events in the recent history of El Salvador still have an
effect on the implementation of the Convention throughout the State party, in
particular the two earthquakes which occurred in 2001 and caused widespread
damage, leaving more than 1 million people homeless and destroying many
schools. Moreover, it acknowledges that the process of national
reconciliation, after 12 years of armed conflict (1980 1992), still poses
difficulties. Enfants du Monde Projects in Salvador Enfants du Monde www.enfantsdumonde.ch/en/salvador.php [accessed 10 May 2011] A country, with 47% of the
population under age 17, Child Rights World Vision International, July 2003 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 19 September 2011] [scroll down] Russell Comments On [access information unavailable] The reality is that the Panama
Government themselves admit that the overwhelming number of crimes are committed
by adults and the evidence in other countries shows that harsh sentences wont
impact on youth crime. In Shifting
Views Of Children Who Work Or Live On The Street Kathleen O'Toole, www.stanford.edu/dept/news/pr/00/streetchild517.html [accessed 10 May 2011] This 12-year-old Salvadoran boy,
shown in April outside a house where he had gone to mourn an acquaintance who
was raped and murdered, lives mostly on the streets of Quezaltepeque,
where he begs or steals small amounts of money for food and glue to sniff.
Like many other so-called street children in The Present Reality of Street Kids Ambassadors for Children At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [Last access date unavailable] [scroll down] CHILD EXPLOITATION - Children are the cheapest labor
around. These homeless children live very near the central market in the city
of San Salvador (the capital city of El Salvador), specifically in urban
parks, such as Plaza del Trovador, San José and
Hula Hula and on the Celis
Street. The merchants abuse of the fact that these children are malnourished,
are hungry and anxious to get their hands on more drugs, to exploit them. The AMOR
Project www.churchinwales.org.uk/swanbrec/s544/amor.html [accessed 11 May 2011] Living on the streets of the
capital Aid for Children of www.wiserearth.org/organization/view/506163284ad89438388d2415ddbdd991 [accessed 11 May 2011] Tens of thousands of children in Children
of the Street (COTS) www.giveafuture.org/aboutus.html [Last access date unavailable] COTS is a volunteer organization
formed by professionals that work on a volunteer basis to deliver 100% of
your donations straight into the hand that need the most, the children of El
Salvador. We claim no salaries and have no overhead. At Luis Galdamez, Reuters, www.pangaea.org/street_children/latin/elsal4.htm [accessed 10 May 2011] Ever since she was six, Maria
Aguilar has survived on garbage. ``I grew up in the dump,'' the 18-year-old
Aguilar told Reuters, recalling that her mother brought her there one day in
1986. She picks through fetid waste to make a living in the dump, where many
of those who work around her dine on buzzard soup when they can catch one of
the scavengers. Deliberate
Plan To Exterminate Street Children Inter Press Service News Agency IPS, pangaea.org/street_children/latin/elsal3.htm [accessed 11 May 2011] The Olof
Palme human rights organization claims that there
was a plan in Amnesty International, Index Number: AMR 29/004/2003, 28 July 2003 www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AMR29/004/2003 [accessed 3 February 2011] Thousands of people disappeared in
Prostitution
in Illegal Economy --- Source: www.rnw.nl, www.lingnet.org www.illegaleconomy.com/prostitution/prostitution_in_san_salvador.php [accessed 11 May 2011] CHILD ABUSE - A 1997 study estimated that
1,000 children (up to age 16) were living on their own in the streets, 42
percent of whom were under the age of 5. Substance
abuse (glue and paint sniffing) was an endemic problem among urban street
children. In 1998 the Assembly passed a law regulating the sale of glue and
other substances used as street drugs, prohibiting their sale to minors. All material used herein
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