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FEATURED ARTICLES *** The Specific Situation Of The Street Children TOS Ministries International, www.tos-ministries.org/index.php?id=324&L=1 [accessed 3 July 2011] More than 50% of Don Bosco Roga Project for the People of At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 5 July 2011] In ***
ARCHIVES *** UNICEF – www.unicef.org/infobycountry/paraguay.html [accessed 5 July 2011] The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms
of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/paraguay.htm [accessed 16 December 2010] CURRENT
GOVERNMENT POLICIES AND PROGRAMS TO ELIMINATE THE WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR - The Ministry of Public Health’s Social Welfare Office
has developed ongoing programs that offer financial help to vulnerable groups
including street children. The
Government of Spain’s Development Agency is supporting a program to reform
curriculum, provide educational services to adolescents who do not have a
primary school education, and address the educational needs of street
children. Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61737.htm [accessed 16 December 2010] SECTION 6
WORKER RIGHTS – [d]
Although the labor code prohibits work by children under age 14, in August
the press reported government research documenting that approximately 40
percent of the children in primary grades worked in street vending jobs
during school hours in Ciudad del Este. The 2001 census reported that 5
percent of the workforce was under the age of 14. According to the NGO
Organization for the Eradication of Child Labor (COETI), 265 thousand
children, or 13.6 percent of those between the ages of 5 and 17, worked
outside their homes, many in unsafe conditions. In supermarkets, boys as
young as age 7 bagged and carried groceries to customers' cars for tips.
Thousands of children in urban areas, many of them younger than 12 years of
age, were engaged in informal employment, such as selling newspapers and
sundries and cleaning car windows. Many of the children who worked on the
streets suffered from malnutrition and disease and lacked access to
education. Some employers of the estimated 11,500 young girls working as criadas denied them access to education and mistreated
them. According to the Secretariat for Children and Adolescents, many of
these children were also sexually abused. Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of
the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 12 October 2001 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/paraguay2001.html [accessed 16 December 2010] [47] The Committee expresses its
deep concern at the increasing number of children who are exploited
economically, in particular those under 14 years of age. In particular, it
notes cases of abuse of girls in domestic service and a large number of
children working in the streets, often at night and in unhealthy conditions,
especially in the capital, Asunción. It also notes that ILO Convention No.
138 concerning Minimum Age for Admission to Employment has not been ratified. David Vargas, Inter Press Service News Agency IPS, www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=43576 [accessed 5 July 2011] According to the last census,
there are 87,000 indigenous people in Lugo also reaffirmed his campaign
pledge to put top priority on fighting poverty. He said he would
"personally" take a hand in improving the lot of the army of street
children cleaning windshields for a few coins or hawking candy on the streets
of the capital. But with regard to solving this
problem, he said "It would not be prudent or responsible to announce a
timeframe. I don't know how long it will take to provide a response to this
situation, and I don't know if we will be able to definitively do away with
the monster of poverty, but I want you to know that the children will be the
personal concern of this president." The Specific Situation Of The Street Children TOS Ministries International, www.tos-ministries.org/index.php?id=324&L=1 [accessed 3 July 2011] More than 50% of The Boys
From Polly Curtis, The Guardian, 14 March 2003 www.guardian.co.uk/education/2003/mar/14/gapyears.students1 [accessed 5 July 2011] Most of the children there had
parents who lived in the city but couldn't afford to look after them, were in
prison, or had left for Facts -
An International Perspective Re-Solv www.re-solv.org/international.asp [accessed 5 July 2011] The problem of solvent abuse isn’t
confined to the The protection of street children ECPAT International Newsletters, Issue No : 47 1/April/2004 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 5 July 2011] The game of realities is terrible.
It is to be hoped that a country that has a National Plan of Action against
CSEC (Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children) would search for real
solutions to its social problems. Yet plans, codes and laws run the risk of
being little more than papers filed away in bureaucratic offices, and the
media’s coverage of issues related to these plans, codes and laws is fleeting. El Embudo (The Funnel) Ashoka, Changemakers,
April 1999 proxied.changemakers.net/studio/99april/embudo.cfm [accessed 5 July 2011] In 1998, La Casa launched the publication
of the book El Embudo, which focuses on the experiences and serious problems facing boys and
adolescents in prison. Excerpts from El Embudo
are presented here. This is a clandestine book, assembled over two years. It
documents, through secret interviews and hidden-camera photographs, the abuse
and neglect of kids in juvenile prisons. We started to look at the rural
youth who come to the city, face miserable conditions, have no work and enter
into prostitution or delinquency," explained Soares.
"We're trying to stimulate a discussion on the concepts of justice – and
how our society condones its own wrong doings” Recommendations on the Rights of Children - Street
Children Org of American States - Inter-American Commission on
Human Rights, Annual Report 2001 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 5 July 2011] 126. The Commission cannot neglect
to mention an extremely serious act that was harmful to street children,
which led to a petition that it received on December 23, 2000. The arrest on
November 27, 28, and 29, 2000, of boys and girls who work in the streets by
juvenile court judge Mercedes Brítez de Buzó ”was a poverty cleansing operation on the streets of
the capital” Rights Of The Child Statement by the Consortium for Street Children to the
fifty-seventh session of the UN Commission on Human Rights, 7 April 2001 www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/0/e1f099b6b3dbc071c1256ae0004932c1?Opendocument [accessed 5 July 2011] Specific examples of alleged
violations that have come to the attention of the Consortium for Street
Children over the past year include: Paraguay
– the inhuman conditions and ill-treatment, sometimes amounting to torture,
endemic in the Panchito López
Juvenile Detention Center, as highlighted in a recent report by Amnesty
International (April 2001) and in the report of the Special Rapporteur on Torture (E/CN.4/2001/66, para. 835) Committee
on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights CESCR Concluding Observations International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights, 14 May 1996 sim.law.uu.nl/SIM/CaseLaw/uncom.nsf/0/e18a32513b924936c125663c00343b4c?OpenDocument [accessed 5 July 2011] 15. The Committee is particularly
concerned about the large number of child workers and street children in 27. The Committee recommends that
the State party should launch a program, in cooperation with UNICEF and ILO,
to combat the exploitation of child labor and the abandonment and
exploitation of street children. The Institute del Manana ( Project for the People of At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 5 July 2011] The Institute del Manana ( El Abrigo www.projectpy.org/elabrigo.htm [Last access date unavailable] El Abrigo (The House of Shelter and Care) is
operated by a group of Mennonites in Asuncion. The shelter is designed for
street kids and provides a loving, predictable atmosphere in which young
children thrive. El Abrigo houses boys and girls
ages 6-13 in clean, well kept rooms equipped with showers, toilets, bunk beds
and desks for studying. The staff at the shelter use a point system with the
children to motivate appropriate behavior. Don Bosco Roga Project for the People of At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 5 July 2011] In All material used herein
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