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following links and accompanying text have been culled from the web to
illuminate the situation in HOW TO USE THIS WEBPAGE Students If you are looking
for material to use in a term-paper, you are advised to scan the postings on this
page and others to see which aspect(s) of street life are of particular
interest to you. You might be
interested in exploring how children got there, how they survive, and how
some manage to leave the street.
Perhaps your paper could focus on how some street children abuse the
public and how they are abused by the public … and how they abuse each
other. Would you like to write about
market children? homeless children? Sexual and labor exploitation? begging? violence? addiction? hunger? neglect? etc. There is a lot to the subject of Street
Children. Scan other countries as well
as this one. Draw comparisons between
activity in adjacent countries and/or regions. Meanwhile, check out some of the Term-Paper resources
that are available on-line. Teachers Check out some of
the Resources
for Teachers attached to this website. *** ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/panama.htm [accessed 15
December 2010] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Children are also found working in urban areas in Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61736.htm [accessed 10
February 2020] SECTION
6 WORKER RIGHTS
– [d] Many children continued to work in the informal sector of the economy
as street vendors, shoe shiners, cleaning car windows, washing cars, bagging groceries
in supermarkets, picking trash, or simply begging for money. A 2005 ILO
survey estimated 52 thousand children between the ages of 5 and 17 worked in
the informal sector. The government estimated there were 15 thousand children
employed or working on their own informally in urban areas of the country.
Approximately 45 percent of these children did not attend school. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 4 June 2004 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/panama2004.html [accessed 15
December 2010] [17] The Committee
acknowledges the newly created Integrated System of Indicators for
Development and the data collection by, inter alia, the centre
for information and the Social Cabinet, but it is concerned about the
continuing insufficiency of measures to collect disaggregated statistical
data and other information on the situation of children belonging to the most
vulnerable groups, in particular girls, street children, disabled children,
children living in rural areas, refugees, asylum-seekers and indigenous
children. Feature Stories on
Human Development Themes in LAC Region The World Bank
Group, Latin America and the At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 3 July
2011] Organization
Created To Defend Children And Youth Eva Aguilar, De La Prensa, 13 August 1996 pangaea.org/street_children/latin/panama.htm [accessed 3 July
2011] [Every second para
in English]
The Municipal Council of Panama has created the Municipal Board for the
Defense and Development of Childhood and Youth, with the purpose of promoting
the defense of rights of the child and young person. The expect, also, to
bring special attention to the minors who work in the streets and who suffer
mistreatment. ROPE - Relief for
Oppressed People Everywhere www.rope.org.uk/newsamericaspanama.html At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 3 July
2011] [05/00] The area where our
ROPEHOLDERS work is one of the poorest in All
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