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FEATURED ARTICLE *** The Protection
Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/lesotho.doc [accessed 2009] FACTORS THAT
CONTRIBUTE TO THE TRAFFICKING INFRASTRUCTURE - In *** ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/lesotho.htm [accessed 18 February 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - A January 2004 study by UNICEF, Save the Children,
and the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare estimates the number of
HIV/AIDS orphans to be 92,000. Children in families affected by the
disease often drop out of school to become caregivers of sick parents or care
for younger siblings. Children also
work as domestic workers, car washers, taxi fare collectors, and street
vendors. Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61576.htm [accessed 18 February 2011] CHILDREN
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Familial stress, poverty, the spread of HIV/AIDS, and divorce led to a rise
in child homelessness and abandonment, creating a growing number of street
children and families headed by children. Street children were constrained
due to their relative lack of finances from access to government services,
such as medical care and school. Street children were not informed about
their rights or access to government services. There were no reports of abuse
of street children by security forces. SECTION
6 WORKER RIGHTS
– [d] Many urban street children worked in the informal sector. Most jobs
performed by children were gender‑specific: boys as young as ages four
and five were livestock herders, carried packages for shoppers, washed cars,
and collected fares for minibus taxis; girls were domestic servants; teenage
girls (and a few boys) were involved in prostitution; and both boys and girls
worked as street vendors. 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/lesotho2001.html [accessed 18 February 2011] [55] Labor laws regulating child labor do
exist in the State party, but the Committee notes with concern the high and
increasing number of children, especially boys, employed as animal herders,
inter alia, and children employed as street traders, porters and in textile
and garment factories. The Committee is concerned, in addition, at the number
of children working in potentially dangerous conditions and at the lack of
monitoring and supervision of the conditions in which they work. [59] The Committee notes with concern the
increasing number of children living and/or working on the streets in The Protection
Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/lesotho.doc [accessed 2009] FACTORS THAT
CONTRIBUTE TO THE TRAFFICKING INFRASTRUCTURE - In The Protection
Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/zambia.doc [accessed 2009] TRAFFICKING
ROUTES
– Aids orphans
abandoned on Basildon Peta,
The Independent, [accessed 13 June 2011] In Nazareth Haphloane and other districts of Consortium for Street Children – Consortium for Street Children 2004 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 25 September 2011] The age expectancy
in Access to Education - Support children in China,
Lesotho and Madagascar United Society for the Propagation of the
Gospel USPG www.uspg.org.uk/article.php?article_id=33 [accessed 13 June 2011] Education will tackle HIV/AIDS United Society for the Propagation of the
Gospel USPG www.uspg.org.uk/our_work/our_work_lesotho.php [Last access date unavailable] Between 70 and 100
people are dying every day in The Tzu Chi Foundation taipei.tzuchi.org.tw/tzquart/book/book2/6d.htm [accessed 13 June 2011] In Seduction, Sale
& Slavery: Trafficking In Women & Children For Sexual Exploitation In
Jonathan Martens, Maciej
‘Mac’ Pieczkowski & Bernadette van Vuuren-Smyth, International Organization for Migration
IOM, Pretoria SA, May 2003 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 25 September 2011] EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - The major findings may be summarized as follows: In Lesotho,
children from rural areas gravitate to Maseru to escape domestic violence,
and the effects of HIV/AIDS. As street children, they are coerced or forcibly
abducted by white men before being taken across the border with the consent
of border officials to border towns and asparagus farms in the Eastern Free
State. There they are held captive in private houses where they are sexually
and sadistically assaulted over several days by small groups of men. These
children are finally returned to the border, or deposited on the streets of
towns in the Eastern Free State to find their own way home. Street children
in All
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