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in *** ARCHIVES *** UNICEF
– Panama www.unicef.org/infobycountry/panama.html [accessed 3 July 2011] The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/panama.htm [accessed 15 December 2010] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Children are also found working in urban areas in Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61736.htm [accessed 15 December 2010] SECTION
6 WORKER RIGHTS
– [d] Many children continued to work in the informal sector of the economy
as street vendors, shoe shiners, cleaning car windows, washing cars, bagging
groceries in supermarkets, picking trash, or simply begging for money. A 2005
ILO survey estimated 52 thousand children between the ages of 5 and 17 worked
in the informal sector. The government estimated there were 15 thousand
children employed or working on their own informally in urban areas of the
country. Approximately 45 percent of these children did not attend school. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 4
June 2004 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/panama2004.html [accessed 15 December 2010] [17] The Committee
acknowledges the newly created Integrated System of Indicators for
Development and the data collection by, inter alia, the centre
for information and the Social Cabinet, but it is concerned about the
continuing insufficiency of measures to collect disaggregated statistical
data and other information on the situation of children belonging to the most
vulnerable groups, in particular girls, street children, disabled children,
children living in rural areas, refugees, asylum-seekers and indigenous
children. Feature Stories on Human Development Themes
in LAC Region The World Bank Group, Latin America and the
At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 3 July 2011] Organization
Created To Defend Children And Youth Eva Aguilar, De La Prensa,
13 August 1996 pangaea.org/street_children/latin/panama.htm [accessed 3 July 2011] [Every second para in English] The Municipal Council of Panama has
created the Municipal Board for the Defense and Development of Childhood and
Youth, with the purpose of promoting the defense of rights of the child and
young person. The expect, also, to bring special attention to the minors who
work in the streets and who suffer mistreatment. ROPE - Relief for Oppressed People
Everywhere www.rope.org.uk/newsamericaspanama.html At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 3 July 2011] [05/00] The area where our
ROPEHOLDERS work is one of the poorest in All
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