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FEATURED ARTICLE *** (III) Mussie Hadgu
, Asmarino Independent, 16 April 2009 [accessed 12 January
2015] COPING STRATEGIES
THAT ARE COMMON BOTH TO URBAN AND RURAL SETTING AREA 7. Prostitution and
child labour: As the bread winners of the households are absent, families resort
to sending their children to work in different economic activities such as
restaurants, bars, and other activities such as being street vendors. Some of
the underage girls finally end up as sex workers. Many adult women also
resort to the prostitution as a coping strategy. However, as the government
targets and sends the sex workers and children who are street vendors or
street children or any child or adult person out of school to military
training, mere observation of the number of sex workers and of children
engaged in the above mentioned activities does not give the actual picture of
the scale of child labour and prostitution in the country. - sccp ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2006 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor [PDF] www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/tda/tda2006/eritrea.pdf [accessed 4 February
2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - In Human Rights
Reports » 2008 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2008/af/119000.htm [accessed 8 February
2020] CHILDREN
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During the year humanitarian groups and interlocutors anecdotally noted an
increase from previous years in the amount of street children due in part to
an increase in economic hardship. The government did not provide services to
abate the increase. Further, there were no known reports of security forces
abusing the children. SECTION
6 WORKER RIGHTS
– [d] It was common for rural children who did
not attend school to work on family farms, fetching firewood and water, and
herding livestock, among other activities. In urban areas children could be
seen in auto mechanic outfits working in car repair shops. Some children
worked as street vendors of cigarettes, newspapers, or chewing gum to either
supplement household income or at the behest of older children. There were no
known instances of forced child labor. The Protection
Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/eritrea.doc [accessed 2009] FACTORS CONTRIBUTING
TO THE TRAFFICKING INFRASTRUCTURE - Several factors contribute to the
existence of trafficking within Skills for
Disadvantaged Children Yoseph Tekle,
Shaebia, Dec 22, 2008 www.shaebia.org/artman/publish/article_5730.shtml [accessed 12 May
2011] Meron Kifle is a 13 years old boy who is receiving training as
auto-electrician at the Harat Garage in streetchildrennews.wordpress.com/category/1/africa/eritrea-streetkid-news/ [accessed 12 May
2011] The branch office
of the Ministry of Labor and Welfare in the The trainees on
their part thanked the Ministry for providing the training and extending the
necessary care and support. Meanwhile, financial assistance has been extended
to 420 street children in Massawa and Ginda for baying school materials, according to reports. Worst Forms of
Child Labour Data beta.globalmarch.org/worstformsreport/world/eritrea.html [accessed 11 October
2012] TOTAL CHILD LABOUR - GENERAL NOTES AND
OBSERVATIONS - It is common for rural children who do not attend
classes to work on family farms, fetching firewood and water, and herding livestock
among other activities. In urban areas, some children work as street vendors
of cigarette newspapers, or chewing gum. Children also work as child-minders,
traders, and domestic accountants and in small-scale manufacturing. Child Soldiers
Global Report 2004 - Eritrea Coalition to Stop
the Use of Child Soldiers www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4988065f2d.html [accessed 11 October
2012] CHILD RECRUITMENT
AND DEPLOYMENT
- Despite the December 2000 peace treaty, compulsory military service was
extended repeatedly, with aggressive roundups of new recruits and evaders,
forcible conscription, detentions and ill-treatment.9 Street children and
other under-18s were reportedly used as forced labour in military camps. All
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