HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION OF THE UNITED NATIONS
ON THE OCCASION OF THE SESSION CHILDREN'S RIGHTS
TO 9 MARCH 2011
Again NNATs Movements in Latin America, ie organizations whose identity is to be publicly recognized as workers and, we are left aside for a United Nations agency says safeguarding the human rights of children, and in this case with reference to working children. The meeting next March 9 and the preparatory documents and call show the prevalence of some inaccuracies that from Latin America we believe do not contribute to a better understanding of the social phenomenon of working children.
1 .- Working Children and Street Children.
These two phenomena, but to be distinguished. In our region the population of street children and adolescents belonging or not reduced population daughter of crime, Aids and crime are the risks point to the text, or exposure to work. We speak of NNA unemployed living on the streets and therefore central problem which is being systematically deprived of activities that allow them to address their situation of extreme poverty. Experience shows that across the street as a habitat, the work is one of the factors reorganization of life.
2 .- In the fuzzy logic of the ILO
ideology behind some of the documents for the meeting of 9 of the currents, which nourishes the ILO Convention 182 and to contrast to the street School Children as a lifeline. The Working Children called on the streets, are not exactly the NNA subject to prostitution, trafficking, are workers. The prevailing view of industrial society daughter of working children in the formal economy and those who do their own on the streets, both reprehensible even to speak of protection, ie disposal.
This session then becomes functional again, the stubborn assertion of an agreement like the 182 that goes into the same bag crimes against children, that is against humanity, and legitimate self-employment activities.
3 .- Beyond the world of big cities
decades ago warned of the reductionist thinking of the Street Children in large avenues, traffic lights, plazas and parks. It is in the suburban world, where almost no state presence, which concentrates most broadly Street Children and Working Children on the corners of the streets. We may ask whether the session in Geneva, will not be "under the guise of linking the working Working Children and Children on the streets - the opportunity to revisit the issues of domestic work for third parties on which the ILO is preparing a new agreement, the Indian child labor, prostitution, child soldiers, slavery, etc, without actually deepen the reality of these children and adolescents working in the street.
Finally, MOLACNATs welcomes the participation of fellow AMWCY Africa, who together with MOLACNATs and Asia move up the Global Movement for Children and Adolescents, and renews its determination to continue alerting public opinion about how society continues to discriminate and under the approval of national and international entities to the millions of NNATs of Our America and their organizations who also have something to say about our reality of life and work.
Defending the right to expression, to comment on matters that concern us is closely linked to the defense of the right to a decent life without exploitation or exclusion of any kind. In this regard, continue to denounce the violation of these rights.
MOLACNATs - Latin American and Caribbean Movement of Children and Young Workers
08/03/2011
This
letter is supported by the following organizations:
- BelgicaNats - Belgium
- EINET (Research Team Working Children-Education) - Peru
- IFEJANT (Institute for training educators of youth, adolescent and child workers) - INFANT
- Peru - Peru
- Italianats - Italy
- Little Hands - Italy Observatory on Latin America
- Peruanim FORESTS - France
- PRONATS - Germany
- Actifs La Voix des Enfants - France
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