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Prevalence, Abuse & Exploitation of Street Children In the
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ARTICLE *** The Protection Project - Lesotho [DOC] FACTORS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO THE
TRAFFICKING INFRASTRUCTURE - In Lesotho and four other African countries—Botswana, Swaziland,
Zambia, and Zimbabwe—at least 20 percent of adults are infected with
HIV/AIDS. Lesotho has one of the
highest HIV/AIDS infection rates in the world, at about 30 to 35 percent. As
many as 14,000 children have been orphaned by the disease. The orphans must
then provide for themselves and younger siblings. In Lesotho, Botswana, Swaziland, and
Zimbabwe, more than 20 percent of children will be orphaned by 2010. These children often turn to the streets,
where they are vulnerable to exploitation and trafficking.
*** ARCHIVES *** U.S.
Dept of Labor Bureau of International Labor Affairs 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. Bur of Democracy,
Human Rights & Labor - Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 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) - 2001 [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 - Lesotho [DOC] FACTORS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO THE
TRAFFICKING INFRASTRUCTURE - In Lesotho and four other African countries—Botswana, Swaziland,
Zambia, and Zimbabwe—at least 20 percent of adults are infected with
HIV/AIDS. Lesotho has one of the
highest HIV/AIDS infection rates in the world, at about 30 to 35 percent. As
many as 14,000 children have been orphaned by the disease. The orphans must
then provide for themselves and younger siblings. In Lesotho, Botswana, Swaziland, and
Zimbabwe, more than 20 percent of children will be orphaned by 2010. These children often turn to the streets,
where they are vulnerable to exploitation and trafficking. The Protection Project - Zambia [DOC] TRAFFICKING
ROUTES – Aids
orphans abandoned on Lesotho's streets to die alone In Nazareth Haphloane
and other districts of Consortium for Street Children - Lesotho www.streetchildren.org.uk/resources/details/?type=country&country=139 At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
The age expectancy in LESOTHO - Every day I come across small
signs of hope. The young people I have met from the many high schools
involved in the HIV/AIDS courses deserve special praise for their integrity
and determination to change their behaviour and
cultural traditions in order to rescue their country from the AIDS pandemic. Education will tackle HIV/AIDS www.uspg.org.uk/our_work/our_work_lesotho.php Between 70 and 100 people are
dying every day in Lesotho as a result of HIV/AIDS and poverty. The numbers
of street children and orphans are on the increase, as is lawlessness. In Seduction, Sale & Slavery: Trafficking In Women & Children For Sexual Exploitation In Southern Africa [PDF] www.iom.org.za/Reports/TraffickingReport3rdEd.pdf At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] 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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