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ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/guyana.htm [accessed 8 February 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Girls in the Hinterland area in particular are
recruited to work as domestic servants and waitresses in restaurants. The Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices U.S. Dept of State Bureau of Democracy,
Human Rights, and Labor, March 8, 2006 www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61730.htm [accessed 8 February 2011] SECTION
6 WORKER RIGHTS
– [d] According to the 2001 UNICEF-sponsored Multiple Indicator Cluster
Survey, 27 percent of children between the ages of 5 and 14 were economically
active. The majority of children started working between the ages of 10 and
14. Approximately 45 percent of children worked in the interior regions. The
report indicated that most children were not involved in the worst forms of
child labor, and estimated that 3 percent of the children were involved in
commercial sexual activity. Teenage prostitution
was a problem. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child,
30 January 2004 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/guyana2004.html [accessed 8 February 2011] [53] The Committee
notes the results of the studies on the problem of sexual exploitation in the
State party and expresses its concern at the lack of specific data on this
issue and of targeted measures to address it. [59] The Committee notes
that the State party has not ratified the Optional Protocols to the
Convention on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography,
and on the involvement of children in armed conflict. Report by Special
Rapporteur [DOC] UN Economic and Social Council Commission
on Human Rights, Fifty-ninth session, 6 January 2003 www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/0/217511d4440fc9d6c1256cda003c3a00/$FILE/G0310090.doc [accessed 21 May 2011] [45] Protection Project Report - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/guyana.doc [accessed 2009] GOVERNMENT RESPONSES - The Criminal Law
Offence Act criminalizes abduction of an unmarried girl. It also outlaws child
prostitution by prohibiting an owner, occupier, or manager of any premises to
cause or allow a girl younger than 13 to be on a premises for the purpose of
having unlawful sexual intercourse. Committee On The Rights Of The Child (CRC)
Concludes Thirty-Fifth Session UN Convention on the Rights of the Child,
Press Release, 30 January 2004 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 21 May 2011] With regard to the
report of Guyana … the Committee recommended, among other things, that the
State party raise the age of the minimum sexual consent and the minimum age
of criminal responsibility to an internationally acceptable one; and continue
to strengthen measures aimed at increasing enrolment rates in primary and
secondary education and to further increase attempts to bring dropouts back
to school and other training programs. All
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