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Big Picture U.S.
Dept of Labor Bureau of International Labor Affairs INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Children also work as street vendors and shoe shiners. Some children also work as domestic
servants in homes of third parties.
Children from poor families are sometimes “adopted” into the homes of
other families, often serving under a kind of indentured servitude, while
other poor and homeless children are sometimes forced to beg and sell goods
on the streets. Bur of Democracy,
Human Rights & Labor - Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 NATIONAL/RACIAL/ETHNIC MINORITIES - The IOM estimated that
approximately 650 thousand Haitian immigrants--or 7.5 percent of the
country's population--lived in shantytowns or sugarcane work camps known as
bateyes, which were harsh environments with limited or no electricity,
usually no running water, and no adequate schooling. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - 2001 [23] In the light of article 2 and
other related articles of the Convention, the Committee recommends that the
State party take, as a matter of priority, effective measures to ensure that
children of Haitian origin born in the State party's territory or belonging
to Haitian migrant families have the same access to housing, education and
health services as other children. The Committee also recommends that the
State party strengthen and increase measures to reduce economic and social
disparities, including between urban and rural areas; to prevent
discrimination against the most disadvantaged groups of children, such as
girls, children with disabilities, children living in and/or working on the
streets; and children living in rural areas; and to guarantee their full
enjoyment of all the rights as recognized in the Convention. [45] Concern is expressed at the
large number of children living and/or working on the streets. Dominican
Tourism Police will ID vendors, rescues street children He said those who result positive
in the dope tests will not be given an ID, and instead be taken to a detox center, so they can again work as vendors.
"This program we are going to develop will be with the utmost possible
respect and using a personal doctor, orientation and psychologists so they
understand the importance of living a completely wholesome life. The official also said the program
to rescue minors who roam the streets, beaches and avenues advances, and the children
are taken to shelters operated by the Office of the First Lady and other
government agencies. He said the program will also include Boca Chica,
Juan Dolio and other places tourists frequent by the thousands. Situation
Of Minors In The Dominican Republic E. CHILD PROSTITUTION -
425. In the America/
Dominican Republic - “Yo También” Nearly all the children who come
to the Yo también Home
are in very poor health. “The most frequent diseases include: parasites,
hearing defects, conjunctivitis, bronchitis and asthma, TB gonorrhoea, syphilis and cancer, trauma due to violence
or accidents, broken limbs, leukaemia, hernia, anaemia, AIDS, hepatitis b, etc. Many suffer from
anxiety, emotional disturbance, neurosis, guilty complex, lack of
concentration, trauma from sexual abuse and therefore sexual problems, brain
damage, intolerance, aggressiveness, regression, many are prone to glue
sniffing and alcohol abuse. Traffickers Target Haitian Children Traffickers on either side of the
shared border smuggle the youngsters into the Street Children of the Dominican Republic [mp3] www.worldvision.org/worldvision/radio.nsf/0/539826132610670E87256E4F002A334C?OpenDocument Thousands of children in the Committee
On The Rights Of The Child (CRC) Initial Report Of The Dominican Republic The Treaties and Reports to Treaty Bodies www.hri.ca/fortherecord1997/vol4/dominicanrep.htm At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] Concern was also expressed over
... reports received on the occurrence of child labor and child exploitation,
including sexual exploitation; the increasing number of street children; the
low rate of school enrolment ... Protection Project - Country Report [DOC] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - Haitian girls have been
trafficked along the border with the Dominican Republic, and thousands of
Haitian children reportedly have been trafficked into the Dominican Republic,
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