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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Situation Of Minors In The Organization of American States OAS
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, "Report On The Situation Of
Human Rights In The Dominican Republic", 7 October 1999 --
OEA/Ser.L/V/II.104, Doc. 49 rev. 1 www.cidh.org/countryrep/DominicanRep99/Chapter11.htm [accessed 8 May 2011] E. CHILD
PROSTITUTION - 425 In the ***
ARCHIVES *** UNICEF
– www.unicef.org/infobycountry/domrepublic.html [accessed 8 May 2011] The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/dominican-republic.htm [accessed 2 February 2011] 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. Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61725.htm [accessed 2 February 2011] 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) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child,
26 January 2001 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/dominicanrepublic2001.html [accessed 27 February 2011] [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 Dominican Today, [accessed 8 May 2011] 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 Organization of American States OAS
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, "Report On The Situation Of
Human Rights In The Dominican Republic", 7 October 1999 --
OEA/Ser.L/V/II.104, Doc. 49 rev. 1 www.cidh.org/countryrep/DominicanRep99/Chapter11.htm [accessed 8 May 2011] E. CHILD PROSTITUTION - 425. In the America/ Dominican Republic - “Yo También” R.Z., Agenzia
Fides 2004-04-27 www.fides.org/aree/news/newsdet.php?idnews=2195&lan=eng [accessed 8 May 2011] 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 BBC News, 11 August, 2002 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2187241.stm [accessed 8 May 2011] Traffickers on
either side of the shared border smuggle the youngsters into the Street Children of the Dominican Republic [mp3] World Vision Report www.worldvision.org/worldvision/radio.nsf/0/539826132610670E87256E4F002A334C?OpenDocument [accessed 8 May 2011] Thousands of
children in the Committee On The
Rights Of The Child (CRC) Initial Report Of The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
Press Release, 24 January 2001 www.unhchr.ch/huricane/huricane.nsf/0/C8A148C41578B611C12569DF002EFAA6?opendocument [accessed 8 May 2011] The Treaties and Reports to Treaty Bodies “For the Record 1997” Vol.4 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 8 May 2011] Concern was also
expressed over ... reports received on the occurrence of child labour and
child exploitation, including sexual exploitation; the increasing number of
street children; the low rate of school enrolment ... Protection Project - Country Report [DOC] The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/dominican.doc [accessed 2009] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - Haitian girls
have been trafficked along the border with the All
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