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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Child Labor
Increasing in Equatorial Guinea afrol News (African News
Agency), 21 November 2000 At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 13 June
2013] According to more
recent news from the Equatorial Guinean opposition, the current crisis in the
educational sector effects more than 80 percent of the population, living in
poverty and without the means to send their children to foreign boarding
schools. According to the representative of UNICEF in Equatorial Guinea, 50
per cent of school-age children do not attend primary school. ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/equatorial-guinea.htm [accessed 3 February
2011] CHILD
LABOR LAWS AND ENFORCEMENT - In 2001, the government passed a measure banning all
children under the age of 17 years from being on the streets and working
after 11 p.m. This measure was undertaken by the Ministry of the
Interior to curb growing levels of prostitution, delinquency, and alcoholism
among youths employed in bars, grocery stores, and as street hawkers.
The new law calls for arrest of violators and fining of parents as punishment
for violations. There is no available
information assessing the government’s enforcement or the impact of this
measure. Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61567.htm [accessed 8 February
2020] CHILDREN
- The
government devoted little attention to children's rights or their welfare and
had few policies in this area, although it sponsored a few seminars, media
programs, and announcements on the Convention on the Rights of the Child. In
2004 the parliament passed a trafficking in persons law, focused almost
exclusively on trafficked children; however, no other provisions for the
welfare of children were legislated. There are instances
of street children living in the country. The average age was 10. They have
been the targets of police sweeps in an effort to reduce trafficking in
persons. SECTION
6 WORKER RIGHTS
– [d] In June the government issued a decree relating to child labor,
forbidding the employment of children in street vending, car‑washing,
and selling or attending in bars and restaurants, but this law was rarely and
only periodically enforced. According to a 2001 child labor study by UNICEF,
the most recent information available, child labor existed primarily in the
form of children working as farmhands and market vendors in family
businesses. In addition during the year there were unconfirmed reports that
foreign children were used as market vendors by non-relatives and had no
access to schooling. Concluding
Observations Of The Committee On The Rights Of The Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 3 November 2004 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/guinea2004.html [accessed 3 February
2011] [56] The Committee welcomes
the State party’s ratification of ILO Conventions No. 138 and No. 182 in 2001
and takes note of the adoption in 2004 of the new law against smuggling of
migrants and trafficking in persons. Nevertheless, it remains concerned at
the significant number of children, especially girls, working on the street
and as domestic servants and about the lack of effective implementation of
the labor laws and mechanisms to control child labor. [58] The Committee
is concerned at the growing number of child prostitutes in the streets of the
State party’s capital. It is also concerned that the State party’s report
lacks specific data on sexual exploitation and trafficking of children and
information on legislation on sexual exploitation. Consortium for
Street Children At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 11 May
2011] The poverty and
status of street children does not appear to be a concern of the
government. Most international NGOs in
the country are currently focusing on street girls, because of the common
discrimination they face, along with dealing overall health issues and HIV
care. Committee
On Rights Of Child Considers Report Of UN Committee On The
Rights Of The Child (CRC) Press Release, 24 September 2004 www.unhchr.ch/huricane/huricane.nsf/0/FCB1CB8986DAF743C1256F1C00347C02?opendocument [accessed 11 May
2011] Since the
exploitation of hydrocarbons in Committee On Rights
Of Child Concludes Thirty-Seventh Session Press Release
HR/4796, UN Information Service, www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2004/hr4796.doc.htm [accessed 7 Aug 2013] Given the significant
growth rate of the gross domestic product in the State party, the Committee
was deeply concerned about the persistence of widespread poverty and the
still high number of children who did not enjoy the right to an adequate
standard of living, including adequate housing and other basic services. All
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