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FEATURED ARTICLE *** El Salvador: Where are the
"disappeared" children ? Amnesty International, Index Number: AMR
29/004/2003, 28 July 2003 www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AMR29/004/2003 [accessed 3 February 2011] Thousands of people
disappeared in At Luis Galdamez,
Reuters, www.pangaea.org/street_children/latin/elsal4.htm [accessed 10 May 2011] Ever since she was
six, Maria Aguilar has survived on garbage. ``I grew up in the dump,'' the
18-year-old Aguilar told Reuters, recalling that her mother brought her there
one day in 1986. She picks through fetid waste to make a living in the dump,
where many of those who work around her dine on buzzard soup when they can
catch one of the scavengers. ***
ARCHIVES *** UNICEF
– www.unicef.org/infobycountry/elsalvador.html [accessed 10 May 2011] The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/el-salvador.htm [accessed 3 February 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Children from poor families, as well as orphans,
work as street vendors and general laborers in small businesses, primarily in
the informal sector. As of 2000, 72.8
percent of children who started primary school were likely to reach grade 5. Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61727.htm [accessed 3 February 2011] CHILDREN
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There were also reports of PNC abuse of street
children. The government provided street
children with food, shelter, and healthcare. There were 15 street children housed in ISNA
shelters, but ISNA lacked adequate resources to provide assistance to all street children. Child prostitution
was a problem, and included the commercial sexual exploitation of minors for
upper class clients. Children, especially those living on the streets, were trafficked to other
countries, including for the purpose of sexual exploitation SECTION
6 WORKER RIGHTS
– [d] The government did not devote adequate resources to enforce effectively
child labor laws in the sugar plantations and other agricultural activities
and in the large informal sector. Orphans and children from poor families
frequently worked for survival as street
vendors and general laborers in small businesses. The Ministry of Labor
received few complaints of violations of child labor laws because many
citizens perceived child labor as an essential component of family income
rather than a human rights violation. Concluding Observations of the Committee on
the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child,
30 June 2004 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/elsalvador2004.html [accessed 3 February 2011] [4] The Committee
acknowledges that a series of events in the recent history of El Salvador
still have an effect on the implementation of the Convention throughout the
State party, in particular the two earthquakes which occurred in 2001 and
caused widespread damage, leaving more than 1 million people homeless and
destroying many schools. Moreover, it acknowledges that the process of
national reconciliation, after 12 years of armed conflict (1980 1992), still
poses difficulties. Enfants
du Monde Projects in Salvador Enfants du Monde www.enfantsdumonde.ch/en/salvador.php [accessed 10 May 2011] A country, with 47%
of the population under age 17, Child Rights World Vision International, July 2003 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 19 September 2011] [scroll down] Russell Comments
On [access information unavailable] The reality is that
the Panama Government themselves admit that the overwhelming number of crimes
are committed by adults and the evidence in other countries shows that harsh
sentences wont impact on youth crime. In Shifting
Views Of Children Who Work Or Live On The Street Kathleen O'Toole, www.stanford.edu/dept/news/pr/00/streetchild517.html [accessed 10 May 2011] This 12-year-old
Salvadoran boy, shown in April outside a house where he had gone to mourn an
acquaintance who was raped and murdered, lives mostly on the streets of Quezaltepeque, where he begs or steals small amounts of
money for food and glue to sniff. Like many other so-called street children
in The Present Reality of Street Kids Ambassadors for Children At one time this article had been archived and
may possibly still be accessible [here] [Last access date unavailable] [scroll down] CHILD EXPLOITATION - Children are the
cheapest labor around. These homeless children live very near the central
market in the city of San Salvador (the capital city of El Salvador),
specifically in urban parks, such as Plaza del Trovador,
San José and Hula Hula and on the Celis Street. The merchants abuse of the fact that these
children are malnourished, are hungry and anxious to get their hands on more
drugs, to exploit them. The
AMOR Project www.churchinwales.org.uk/swanbrec/s544/amor.html [accessed 11 May 2011] Living on the
streets of the capital Aid for Children of
www.wiserearth.org/organization/view/506163284ad89438388d2415ddbdd991 [accessed 11 May 2011] Tens of thousands
of children in Children
of the Street (COTS) www.giveafuture.org/aboutus.html [Last access date unavailable] COTS is a volunteer
organization formed by professionals that work on a volunteer basis to
deliver 100% of your donations straight into the hand that need the most, the
children of El Salvador. We claim no salaries and have no overhead. At Luis Galdamez,
Reuters, www.pangaea.org/street_children/latin/elsal4.htm [accessed 10 May 2011] Ever since she was
six, Maria Aguilar has survived on garbage. ``I grew up in the dump,'' the
18-year-old Aguilar told Reuters, recalling that her mother brought her there
one day in 1986. She picks through fetid waste to make a living in the dump,
where many of those who work around her dine on buzzard soup when they can
catch one of the scavengers. Deliberate
Plan To Exterminate Street Children Inter Press Service News Agency IPS, pangaea.org/street_children/latin/elsal3.htm [accessed 11 May 2011] The Olof Palme human rights organization claims that there
was a plan in Amnesty International, Index Number: AMR
29/004/2003, 28 July 2003 www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AMR29/004/2003 [accessed 3 February 2011] Thousands of people
disappeared in Prostitution
in Illegal Economy --- Source: www.rnw.nl,
www.lingnet.org www.illegaleconomy.com/prostitution/prostitution_in_san_salvador.php [accessed 11 May 2011] CHILD ABUSE - A 1997 study
estimated that 1,000 children (up to age 16) were living on their own in the
streets, 42 percent of whom were under the age of 5.
Substance abuse (glue and paint sniffing) was an endemic problem among urban
street children. In 1998 the Assembly passed a law regulating the sale of
glue and other substances used as street drugs, prohibiting their sale to
minors. All
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