The+Bolivarian+Republic+of+Venezuela's+Position+paper

This page has been created by María Rodríguez toc Commitee: International Labor Organization Topic: Child Labor Country: Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

The socio-economic reality in Venezuela has force many families to look for any means to generate income, which involves that any family member, children included, must go and look for a job. This situation causes children to be subjected to different ways of violence and labor or sexual exploitation.

Accordig to the OIT (International Labor Organization) in Venezuela 14% of the boys and a 4% of the girls between 5 and 17 years are working. To solve this problem Venezuela has created specializes committees to formulate national plans of prevention and erradication os child labour; the responsabilty of this rests over the Judiciary Power. It has been also created the LOPNA, which is an organic to guarantee to all children its rights. Various organizations like: UNICEF, Save The Children and Amnistia Internacional, are helping Venezuela to solve the problem with child labour. In 1973 in the International Labour Conference is adopted an agreement about the minimun age to work, establishing it in 15 years for normal works and in 18 for dangerous ones. According to the OIT, in 1997 in Venezuela was created a national comitee for the erradication of child labour and the protection of the working children. It was written an initial memorandum which hasn't been renew nowadays. A year later, the 6th December 1998, Hugo Chávez says: "Me Hugo Chavéz, I forbid to myself that there are children in the streets.If there were children in the streets I'll be the first guilty." And he promised he will create a reeducatio centre for abandoned children, but he didn't carry out that promise.

Hugo Chavéz should carry out what he says,"no more child labour", which is totally posible in Venezuela. But to do this is needed the colaboration of the society to know better the causes of this problen, and the establishment of plans to solve it. I think that are certain types of jobs, like mining or working in fields, shouldn't be done by children, because they are to hard for little persons which are growing. School should be the only work children should do and the goverment should provide financial resources to the families who are sending their children to work because of their lack of money.

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