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FEATURED ARTICLE *** The Protection Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/lesotho.doc [accessed 2009] FACTORS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO THE
TRAFFICKING INFRASTRUCTURE - In *** ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms
of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/lesotho.htm [accessed 18 February 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - A January 2004 study by UNICEF, Save the Children, and the Ministry
of Health and Social Welfare estimates the number of HIV/AIDS orphans to be
92,000. Children in families affected by the disease often drop out of
school to become caregivers of sick parents or care for younger
siblings. Children also work as
domestic workers, car washers, taxi fare collectors, and street vendors. Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61576.htm [accessed 18 February 2011] CHILDREN - Familial stress, poverty, the
spread of HIV/AIDS, and divorce led to a rise in child homelessness and
abandonment, creating a growing number of street children and families headed
by children. Street children were constrained due to their relative lack of
finances from access to government services, such as medical care and school.
Street children were not informed about their rights or access to government
services. There were no reports of abuse of street children by security
forces. SECTION 6
WORKER RIGHTS – [d]
Many urban street children worked in the informal sector. Most jobs performed
by children were gender‑specific: boys as young as ages four and five
were livestock herders, carried packages for shoppers, washed cars, and
collected fares for minibus taxis; girls were domestic servants; teenage
girls (and a few boys) were involved in prostitution; and both boys and girls
worked as street vendors. Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of
the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 26 January 2001 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/lesotho2001.html [accessed 18 February 2011] [55] Labor laws regulating child labor do exist in the
State party, but the Committee notes with concern the high and increasing
number of children, especially boys, employed as animal herders, inter alia,
and children employed as street traders, porters and in textile and garment
factories. The Committee is concerned, in addition, at the number of children
working in potentially dangerous conditions and at the lack of monitoring and
supervision of the conditions in which they work. [59] The Committee notes with concern the increasing
number of children living and/or working on the streets in The Protection Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/lesotho.doc [accessed 2009] FACTORS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO THE
TRAFFICKING INFRASTRUCTURE - In The Protection Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/zambia.doc [accessed 2009] TRAFFICKING
ROUTES – Aids orphans abandoned on Basildon Peta,
The Independent, [accessed 13 June 2011] In Nazareth Haphloane
and other districts of Consortium for Street Children – Consortium for Street Children 2004 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 25 September 2011] The age expectancy in Access to Education - Support children in China, Lesotho
and Madagascar United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel USPG www.uspg.org.uk/article.php?article_id=33 [accessed 13 June 2011] Education will tackle HIV/AIDS United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel USPG www.uspg.org.uk/our_work/our_work_lesotho.php [Last access date unavailable] Between 70 and 100 people are
dying every day in The Tzu Chi Foundation taipei.tzuchi.org.tw/tzquart/book/book2/6d.htm [accessed 13 June 2011] In Seduction, Sale & Slavery:
Trafficking In Women & Children For Sexual Exploitation In Jonathan Martens, Maciej ‘Mac’ Pieczkowski & Bernadette van Vuuren-Smyth,
International Organization for Migration IOM, Pretoria SA, May 2003 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 25 September 2011] EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - The major findings may be summarized as follows: In Lesotho, children from rural
areas gravitate to Maseru to escape domestic violence, and the effects of
HIV/AIDS. As street children, they are coerced or forcibly abducted by white
men before being taken across the border with the consent of border officials
to border towns and asparagus farms in the Eastern Free State. There they are
held captive in private houses where they are sexually and sadistically
assaulted over several days by small groups of men. These children are
finally returned to the border, or deposited on the streets of towns in the
Eastern Free State to find their own way home. Street children in All material used herein
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