Prevalence,
Abuse & Exploitation of Street Children In the first decade
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** ECPAT:
Guinea-Bissau ECPAT International [access information
unavailable]] ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/guinea-bissau.htm [accessed 8 February
2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - UNICEF estimated that 65.4 percent of children ages
5 to 14 years in Human Rights Reports
» 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61574.htm [accessed 9 February
2020] CHILDREN
- The
government allocated limited resources for children's welfare and education.
Public schooling was universal, compulsory until seven years of age, and free
through the fourth grade. A 2003 UN Development Program study indicated that
60 percent of school-age children did not attend school, in large part
because schools were closed for most or all of 2003 as a result of the
government's failure to pay teachers' salaries. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 7th June 2002 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/guineabissau2002.html [accessed 8 February
2011] [50] While noting
the efforts underway to address this concern, the Committee is concerned that
as noted in the State Party report, the economic exploitation of children is
extremely serious and growing worse (paragraphs 250-253, SP report) and that,
in particular (paragraph 142 SP report) the numbers of children working in
the non-formal sector is increasing and that children are often compelled to
perform the same work as adults and in highly difficult and dangerous
conditions. [52] The Committee
is concerned at the number and situation of street children in urban regions
of the State Party. [54] The Committee
is concerned by the lack of information regarding the activities of the very
high proportion of children who do not go to school. There are indicators
that these children may, in urban areas, be involved in prostitution or may
spend much time on the street where they are vulnerable to many kinds of
exploitation (for example, in drug-trafficking, sexual exploitation, drug
abuse). [56] Noting the
State Party's efforts in this regard, the Committee is concerned that, as
indicated in the State Party report, substance abuse by children is a major
concern. Five Years After ECPAT: Fifth Report
on implementation of the Agenda for Action [DOC] ECPAT International,
November 2001 www.no-trafficking.org/content/web/05reading_rooms/five_years_after_stockholm.pdf [accessed 13
September 2011] [B]
COUNTRY UPDATES – Mercy Trucks West
Africa Project Mercy Trucks At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 23
September 2011] To truck medical
aid and equipment 4,600 miles from the Projects
concerning Orphans & Street children in GUINEA BISSAU [access information
unavailable] 1983-1999 Den Internationale
Efterskole - Bustrup (DIE-Bustrup) 1980-2000 SOS-Kinderdorf
International All
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