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Dept of Labor Bureau of International Labor Affairs INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - It is common for children to earn family income by working in the
fields or begging in the streets.
Non-Lebanese children constitute 10 to 20 percent of children working
in the formal sector, but make up a larger share of children working on the
street. Bur of Democracy,
Human Rights & Labor - Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 SECTION 6
WORKER RIGHTS – [d]
In December 2004 the MOL completed a study on working street children, which provided a
snapshot of the condition and nature of street
children in the country. The report showed that the average street child was a boy (9 percent
were girls), foreign (only 15 percent were citizens, the others were most
often Palestinian and Syrian), 12 years of age, and poorly educated or
illiterate. Street children
were concentrated in large urban centers where approximately 47 percent of
them were forced to work long hours on the streets by adults. The most common
types of work were selling goods, including lottery tickets, shoe polishing,
and washing car windshields. The children earned between $2 and $15 (3
thousand to 25 thousand pounds) per day. Only 19 percent of the children
interviewed said they kept their income. LEBANON: Government
could do more to tackle child labour Abdullah lives like no eight
year-old-boy should. Two years ago, the youngster from Raqqa,
a town in the north of Syria on the banks of the River Euphrates, travelled to Lebanon with his three brothers, looking for
work. Today, Abdullah lives with
around 20 other workers in a ramshackle encampment on a patch of wasteland in
Lailaki, a poor suburb of south Beirut. By night, the boy picks through the city’s
rubbish, hoping to find objects of value.
By day, instead of going to school, Abdullah sorts through his
discoveries with his “boss”, an aggressive middle-aged woman who claims to
own the camp and who, Abdullah says, beats the children if they do not make
her enough money. A few hours sleep in
a filthy, cramped tent with no heat or running water and a bowl of rice is his
reward. Eter estimated Lebanon has as many as
5,000 street children, 80 percent of them foreigners mainly from Syria,
Jordan, Iraq or the Palestinian territories, who carry no identification
papers and who therefore cannot attend state school and can be arrested any
time. LEBANON:
Street children - victims of organised crime In Beirut, you can find street
children at almost every major traffic intersection, washing car windows,
selling chewing gum or begging. Their dirty little hands tap the car window
while their bright eyes look into yours in search of signs compassion. Samir is only 12 years old, but living on
the streets has made him grow up quickly. Palestinian of origin, his story is
a sad –but all too common – one. “I’ve been begging since I was eight,” he
said. “My mother left when I was five, and now my father beats me and makes
me beg for money.” Information
about Street Children - Lebanon [DOC] Most children on the streets spend
their days selling trinkets or begging for their parents/other family members
before returning home at night. However, there is a small number for whom the
street is their permanent residence, and these are usually children who have
suffered emotional and/or physical abuse within their families due to
poverty, overcrowding, or family disintegration. Global
Family Program - Lebanon There are many street children
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