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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Ricardo:
‘The only thing I hate in the world is the police’ Jenny Smith, New Internationalist Magazine, Issue 366,
April 1, 2004 www.newint.org/features/2004/04/01/uruguay/ [accessed 24 August 2011] Ricardo’s scarred hands are always
busy – wiping the faces of smaller children, opening doors for others,
picking up dropped items and returning them. He is desperately trying to give
to others that which he has never had on ***
ARCHIVES *** UNICEF – www.unicef.org/infobycountry/uruguay.html [accessed 8 August 2011] The Department of Labor’s 2004
Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/uruguay.htm [accessed 7 January 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - The majority of child work occurs in the informal sector, where
children work in agriculture, street vending, garbage collection, and
begging. CURRENT
GOVERNMENT POLICIES AND PROGRAMS TO ELIMINATE THE WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR - In addition, INAU maintains shelters for at-risk
children, operates a confidential hotline for child victims of domestic
abuse, and cooperates with an NGO to provide food vouchers to parents of
street children who are sent to school. INAU also offers various services for
adolescents, such as work training and safety programs, and educational and
placement services. Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61744.htm [accessed 7 January 2011] SECTION 6
WORKER RIGHTS – [d]
The law protects children against exploitation in the workplace, including a
prohibition of forced or compulsory labor, and the Ministry of Labor and
Social Security is responsible for enforcing it. Enforcement was difficult
due to a lack of resources and because most child labor was in the informal
sector (which accounted for 40 percent of total employment in the country).
Some children worked as street
vendors in the expanding informal sector or in agricultural activities, areas
that generally were regulated less strictly and where pay was lower than in
the formal sector. A program by INAU and an NGO
continued to provide food vouchers of $58 (1,360 pesos) per month to parents
who take their children off the streets
and send them to school. This amount approximated what a child might earn
working on the street, and the
program was considered successful. Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of
the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 11 October 1996 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/uruguay1996.html [accessed 7 January 2011] [7] The Committee, while
recognizing the efforts undertaken by the authorities in the collection of
data, is concerned at the insufficient measures adopted to collect
disaggregated data on the situation of all children, particularly those
belonging to the most disadvantaged groups, including black children,
disabled children, street children, children placed in institutions,
including institutions of a penal nature, ill-treated and abused children or
children from economically disadvantaged groups, which constitutes a major
obstacle to the effective and full implementation of the provisions of the
Convention. World 4 Kids www.world4kids.org/index.php?pno=21 [Last access date unavailable] i. EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT - Ricardo:
‘The only thing I hate in the world is the police’ Jenny Smith, New Internationalist Magazine, Issue 366,
April 1, 2004 www.newint.org/features/2004/04/01/uruguay/ [accessed 24 August 2011] Ricardo’s scarred hands are always
busy – wiping the faces of smaller children, opening doors for others,
picking up dropped items and returning them. He is desperately trying to give
to others that which he has never had on Statement
to the Twenty-Seventh Special Session of the General Assembly on Children H.E. Luis A. Hierro Lopez, Vice
President of www.un.org/ga/children/uruguayE.htm [accessed 8 August 2011] Since its rankings began in 1990,
the UN/UNDP Human Development Index has placed More and
More Children Help Support Their Families Raul Pierri, Inter Press Service
News Agency IPS, www.aegis.com/news/ips/2004/IP040414.html [accessed 8 August 2011] In the morning the boys attend
school (classes are held in two shifts in Ashoka Fellow Profile - Mora Ines Podestá Baratta Ashoka International [accessed 8 August 2011] Mora's "street mentor
network" is perhaps her most innovative invention. She identifies adults
who frequently come into contact with street children because of their daily
routines–shop owners, street vendors, mail carriers, delivery persons or
waiters. She trains them and helps them to develop supportive and mentoring
relationships with identified street children. Mora teaches her mentors how to
help the street children and familiarizes them with the resources available. Caring for Orphans & Vulnerable Children Social Responsibility, Johnson & Johnson, February 22,
2005 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 8 August 2011] ASSISTING
STREET CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES − All material used herein
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