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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early years
of the 21st Century gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Uruguay.htm
Uruguay is primarily a source and transit
country for men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes of commercial
sexual exploitation and forced labor. Most victims are women and girls
trafficked within the country to border and tourist areas for commercial
sexual exploitation; some boys are also trafficked for the same purpose.
Occasionally, parents facilitate the exploitation of their children in
prostitution, and impoverished parents in rural areas have turned over their
children for forced domestic and agricultural labor. Lured by false job
offers, some Uruguayan women have been trafficked to Spain and Italy for
commercial sexual exploitation. - U.S. State Dept Trafficking in Persons
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Child Labour : Various Forms of Child
Labour UNICEF Report 1997 – The State of World’s
children SACCS lokendrakaushik.blogspot.com/2007/07/child-laber-various-forms-of-chield.html [accessed 7 January 2011] Domestic Service -
Children in domestic servitude may well be the most vulnerable and exploited
children of all, as well as the most difficult to protect. They are often
extremely poorly paid or not paid at all, terms and conditions depend on
whims and fancies of their employees and take no account of their legal
rights; they are deprived of schooling, play and social activity, and
emotional support from friends and family. They are vulnerable to physical
and sexual abuse. The isolationism
makes it difficult to discuss exact numbers. Local surveys have however
reflected on the gravity of the problem. ·
A survey of domestic workers in Uruguay
found that 34% had begun working before they were 14. ***
ARCHIVES *** 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] CHILD
LABOR LAWS AND ENFORCEMENT - Forced or bonded labor, including by children, is
prohibited by the Constitution. The
Commercial or Noncommercial Sexual Violence Against Children, Adolescents,
and the Handicapped law addresses pornography, prostitution, and trafficking
involving minors. Prison terms for trafficking children in or out of
the country or contributing to the prostitution of a child range from 2 to 12
years. Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61744.htm [accessed 7 January 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– The country was a source, destination, and transit point for trafficked
persons, and internal trafficking was a problem. Trafficking reportedly
occurred primarily to and from In January
authorities discovered an alien smuggling ring, which had engineered the
illegal entry into the country of more than 100 Chinese citizens, 15 of whom
were found to have been subjected to debt bondage. All victims were males
between the ages of 20 and 38. Under threat of violence, the victims were
forced to work 18 to 20 hours per day on a rice farm while waiting to
complete their onward travel to the 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] [6] The Committee
is concerned at the insufficient measures adopted to harmonize national legislation
with the principles and provisions of the Convention, in spite of the fact
that international treaties ratified by Freedom House
Country Report - Political Rights: 1 Civil Liberties: 1 Status: Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2009/uruguay [accessed 28 June 2012] Human Rights
Overview Human Rights Watch [accessed 7 January 2011] Library of Congress Call Number F2708 .U855
1992 lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/uytoc.html [accessed 7 January 2011] Martín Marzano Luissi, President National Children’s Institute, Regional
Governmental Congress on Sexual Exploitation of Children www.iin.oea.org/Congreso%20Explotation%20Sexual/M.Marzano_Uruguay_ingles.PDF [accessed 7 January 2011] 1.1
NATIONAL CHILDREN’S INSTITUTE - BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE AGENCY - Section 1 of the
Code of Children defines the National Children’s Institute as “the agency
overseeing all aspects of life and welfare of minors from conception until
their majority”. The Institute was
created by law 15977 dated 14 September 1988 as a legal decentralized service
domiciled at Montevideo. Third Report on the Situation of Commercial
Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents in the Americas 2002 [PDF] www.iin.oea.org/Explotacion%20sexual/Informes/tercero/Tercer.Informe.Ex.Sx.Ingles.pdf [accessed 7 January 2011] III.
AREA OF PROTECTION
- The countries were asked if they had recently implemented legal reforms to
combat commercial and noncommercial sexual exploitation based on the
convention on the Rights of the Child and other international juridical
instruments. All the countries responded affirmatively except Uruguay (which has not implemented
reforms yet) and Panama which had no information. Against the Sexual Exploitation of Children Raul Ronzoni,
Inter Press Service News Agency IPS, www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/40/127.html [accessed 7 January 2011] In the only survey
of the issue carried out in Child Labour : Various Forms of Child
Labour UNICEF Report 1997 – The State of World’s
children SACCS lokendrakaushik.blogspot.com/2007/07/child-laber-various-forms-of-chield.html [accessed 7 January 2011] Domestic Service -
Children in domestic servitude may well be the most vulnerable and exploited
children of all, as well as the most difficult to protect. They are often
extremely poorly paid or not paid at all, terms and conditions depend on
whims and fancies of their employees and take no account of their legal
rights; they are deprived of schooling, play and social activity, and
emotional support from friends and family. They are vulnerable to physical
and sexual abuse. The isolationism
makes it difficult to discuss exact numbers. Local surveys have however
reflected on the gravity of the problem. ·
A survey of domestic workers in Uruguay
found that 34% had begun working before they were 14. All
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