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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Ricardo:
‘The only thing I hate in the world is the police’ Jenny Smith, New Internationalist Magazine,
Issue 366, April 1, 2004 www.newint.org/features/2004/04/01/uruguay/ [accessed 24 August 2011] Ricardo’s scarred
hands are always busy – wiping the faces of smaller children, opening doors
for others, picking up dropped items and returning them. He is desperately
trying to give to others that which he has never had on ***
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– www.unicef.org/infobycountry/uruguay.html [accessed 8 August 2011] The Department of
Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/uruguay.htm [accessed 7 January 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - The majority of child work occurs in the informal
sector, where children work in agriculture, street vending, garbage
collection, and begging. CURRENT
GOVERNMENT POLICIES AND PROGRAMS TO ELIMINATE THE WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR - In addition, INAU
maintains shelters for at-risk children, operates a confidential hotline for
child victims of domestic abuse, and cooperates with an NGO to provide food
vouchers to parents of street children who are sent to school. INAU also
offers various services for adolescents, such as work training and safety
programs, and educational and placement services. Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61744.htm [accessed 7 January 2011] SECTION
6 WORKER RIGHTS
– [d] The law protects children against exploitation in the workplace,
including a prohibition of forced or compulsory labor, and the Ministry of
Labor and Social Security is responsible for enforcing it. Enforcement was
difficult due to a lack of resources and because most child labor was in the
informal sector (which accounted for 40 percent of total employment in the
country). Some children worked as street
vendors in the expanding informal sector or in agricultural activities, areas
that generally were regulated less strictly and where pay was lower than in
the formal sector. A program by INAU
and an NGO continued to provide food vouchers of $58 (1,360 pesos) per month
to parents who take their children off the streets and send them to school. This
amount approximated what a child might earn working on the street, and the program was
considered successful. Concluding Observations of the Committee on
the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child,
11 October 1996 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/uruguay1996.html [accessed 7 January 2011] [7] The Committee,
while recognizing the efforts undertaken by the authorities in the collection
of data, is concerned at the insufficient measures adopted to collect
disaggregated data on the situation of all children, particularly those
belonging to the most disadvantaged groups, including black children,
disabled children, street children, children placed in institutions,
including institutions of a penal nature, ill-treated and abused children or
children from economically disadvantaged groups, which constitutes a major
obstacle to the effective and full implementation of the provisions of the
Convention. World 4 Kids www.world4kids.org/index.php?pno=21 [Last access date unavailable] i. EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT - Ricardo:
‘The only thing I hate in the world is the police’ Jenny Smith, New Internationalist Magazine,
Issue 366, April 1, 2004 www.newint.org/features/2004/04/01/uruguay/ [accessed 24 August 2011] Ricardo’s scarred
hands are always busy – wiping the faces of smaller children, opening doors
for others, picking up dropped items and returning them. He is desperately
trying to give to others that which he has never had on Statement
to the Twenty-Seventh Special Session of the General Assembly on Children H.E. Luis A. Hierro
Lopez, Vice President of www.un.org/ga/children/uruguayE.htm [accessed 8 August 2011] Since its rankings
began in 1990, the UN/UNDP Human Development Index has placed More
and More Children Help Support Their Families Raul Pierri,
Inter Press Service News Agency IPS, www.aegis.com/news/ips/2004/IP040414.html [accessed 8 August 2011] In the morning the
boys attend school (classes are held in two shifts in Ashoka Fellow Profile -
Mora Ines Podestá Baratta Ashoka International [accessed 8 August 2011] Mora's "street
mentor network" is perhaps her most innovative invention. She identifies
adults who frequently come into contact with street children because of their
daily routines–shop owners, street vendors, mail carriers, delivery persons
or waiters. She trains them and helps them to develop supportive and
mentoring relationships with identified street children. Mora teaches her
mentors how to help the street children and familiarizes them with the
resources available. Caring for Orphans & Vulnerable
Children Social Responsibility, Johnson &
Johnson, February 22, 2005 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 8 August 2011] ASSISTING STREET CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES − All
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