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FEATURED ARTICLE *** El Salvador: Where are the "disappeared" children ? Thousands of people disappeared in El Salvador during the armed conflict that shattered the country between 1980 and 1991. Hundreds, probably thousands, of them were children. Their families have been looking for them, as experience has shown that many are alive but unaware of their circumstances and identity. Government authorities are not helping. At El Salvador Dump, Buzzard Soup on Menu 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 - The Big Picture U.S.
Dept of Labor Bureau of International Labor Affairs 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. Bur of Democracy,
Human Rights & Labor - Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 CHILDREN - 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) - 2004 [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 A country, with 47% of the
population under age 17, El Salvador has far too many working children,
especially street children, left without parental care. Moreover, in spite of
certain reforms and of an increase in spending for teaching since 1994, there
still remains much to do to increase access and increase the quality of
education, which remains overall poor. Child Rights www.wvi.org/wvi/global/child_rights.htm At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] Russell Comments On South American Street Children 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 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 Ambassadors for Children - Other Information on www.ambassadorsforchildren.org/ElSalvadorInfo.htm At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] THE PRESENT REALITY OF STREET KIDS
- 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. Living on the streets of the
capital Aid for Children of
El Salvador (ACES) Tens of thousands of children in 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 El Salvador Dump, Buzzard Soup on Menu 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 The Olof
Palme human rights organization claims that there
was a plan in El Salvador: Where are the "disappeared" children ? Thousands of people disappeared in El Salvador during the armed conflict that shattered the country between 1980 and 1991. Hundreds, probably thousands, of them were children. Their families have been looking for them, as experience has shown that many are alive but unaware of their circumstances and identity. Government authorities are not helping. 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 material used herein
reproduced under the fair use exception of 17 USC § 107 for noncommercial,
nonprofit, and educational use. PLEASE
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