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ARCHIVES *** UNICEF – www.unicef.org/infobycountry/suriname.html [accessed 26 July 2011] The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms
of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/suriname.htm [accessed 27 December 2010] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - In 2000, the net primary attendance rate was 78 percent. School
attendance is significantly lower in the rural interior than in the rest of
the country at 61.2 percent. As of 2000, 84.0 percent of children who
started primary school were likely to reach grade 5. Although the government covers the majority
of primary school costs, parents must pay school registration fees and
provide school supplies and uniforms. These costs limit access to
education for children from poor and large families. Lack of transportation, appropriate
facilities, and a teacher shortage also present barriers to school attendance The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms
of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/suriname.htm [accessed 27 December 2010] SECTION 6
WORKER RIGHTS – [d]
Children under 14 worked as street vendors, newspaper sellers, rice and
lumber mill workers, packers for traders, or shop assistants. Working hours
for youths were not limited in comparison with the regular work force.
Employers in these sectors did not guarantee work safety, and children often
worked barefoot and without protective gloves, with no access to medical
care. Although government figures reported that only 2 percent of children
were economically active, a 2002 survey conducted by the Institute for
Training and Research found that 50 percent of children between the ages of 4
and 14 were economically active, working mainly in the informal sector. Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of
the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 2 June 2000 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/suriname2000.html [accessed 27 December 2010] [23] The Committee notes that
education is compulsory for children between the ages of 7 and 12 years and
that the legal minimum age for employment is 14 years. The Committee is
concerned that insufficient legal and other measures have been taken to
protect adequately the rights of children between the ages of 12 and 14
years, who are beyond the age of compulsory education but too young to be
legally employed. [49] The Committee notes with
concern the increasingly high number of children living in households below
the poverty line. The Committee is also concerned about the poor housing
situation and living standards of families who fled their homes in the
interior during the civil unrest of the 1980s and are currently living in
urban squatter communities. Concern is also expressed at the large and
increasing number of children living and/or working on the streets. [53] In light of the current
economic situation, the increasing number of school drop-outs and the
increasing number of children living and/or working on the streets, the
Committee is concerned about the lack of information and adequate data on the
situation of child labor and economic exploitation within the State party. [55] The Committee is concerned
with the high incidence of drug, alcohol and substance abuse among youth and
the limited psychological, social and medical programs and services available
in this regard. The State of the World's Children 2002 Carol Bellamy, Executive Director, United Nations
Children's Fund UNICEF, 2002 www.unicef.org/sowc02/pdf/sowc2002-final-eng-allmod.txt [accessed 26 July 2011] CHILDREN'S PARTICIPATION - When UNICEF in Suriname
consulted primary-school-age children during a child rights promotion
campaign in Marowijne in July 1999, it found that
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