Human Trafficking in [Uruguay Street Children in [Uruguay] [other countries]Child Prostitution in [Uruguay] [other countries] |
Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early years of the 21st
Century - 2000 to 2010 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
Report, June, 2009 [full country report] |
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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/template.cfm?page=363&year=2009&country=7730 [accessed 7 January 2011] 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 material used herein
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