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FEATURED ARTICLE *** $30m Social Pact To Help Children The Reporter, Belize, 15 October 1996 pangaea.org/street_children/latin/belize.htm [accessed 6 April 2011] On Wednesday, the Government and UNICEF set their formal seal of approval upon a five-year master plan that will guarantee access to education for every child in the country, primary health care for every child and broad-based protection from abuse and neglect. ***
ARCHIVES *** UNICEF
- www.unicef.org/infobycountry/belize.html [accessed 6 April 2011] Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61716.htm [accessed 22 January 2011] CHILDREN
– Education
is compulsory for children between the ages of 5 and 15. After finishing
primary education, children may enter a secondary school, a government-run
apprenticeship program, or a vocational institution. These programs, however,
had spaces for only half of the children completing primary school. SECTION
6 WORKER RIGHTS
– [d] In 2003 the Central Statistical Office issued the findings of an ILO
study that estimated that 6 percent of children between the ages of 5 and 17
were working, half of them in hazardous work. The study did not include the
sizeable population of undocumented minors, many of whom were not in school.
The Department of Labor coordinated with police and social services
authorities to provide health and other services to undocumented foreign
children who worked. Children in rural
areas worked on family plots and businesses after school, on weekends, and
during vacations, and were involved in the citrus, banana, and sugar
industries as field workers. Children in urban areas shined shoes, sold food,
crafts, and other small items, and worked in markets. Adolescent girls, some
of whom were trafficked within the country and to and from neighboring
countries, worked as domestic servants, and some worked in commercial sexual
activities. There were no government-sponsored child labor prevention
programs. $30m Social Pact To Help Children The Reporter, pangaea.org/street_children/latin/belize.htm [accessed 6 April 2011] On Wednesday, the
Government and UNICEF set their formal seal of approval upon a five-year master
plan that will guarantee access to education for every child in the country,
primary health care for every child and broad-based protection from abuse and
neglect. Committee on Rights of Child Concludes
Consideration of UN Convention on the Rights of the Child,
Committee on the Rights of the Child Press Release www.unhchr.ch/huricane/huricane.nsf/0/867CE0D30D363F95802566FA005D38B4?opendocument [accessed 6 April 2011] Regarding street
children, the delegation said that the concept of street children in Christian Orphanages - The King's Childrens Home www.kingschildrenshome.org/about.htm [accessed 6 April 2011] Children who, for
no reason of their own, are not able to be cared for by their parents or
family members. Children who are abandoned, abused, neglected or orphaned.
Children who are in dangerous conditions, either self-imposed or inflicted by
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