Ecuador´s+Position+paper+(1st+draft)

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Committee: International Labour Organization. Topic: Child Labour. Country: Republic of Ecuador.

In Ecuador, child labour was extended in flower farms, banana plantations and garbage dumps. They are exposed to hazard like sharp knives, dangerous places or toxic substances, this is a bad problem because of this and also for childrens development, they have a lot ofilnesses or dissorders. Other thing is that they often gave a little job security and they don´t contradict because they don´t want to be fired, this childs can´t go to school so they loose their educations and their right to childhood, this would make the children not to earn more money so they cannot take out their family of poorness.

According to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, childrens under fifeteen years old should not be workers. Ecuador´s goverment is showing a good political dedication for the eradication of child labour. They have worked whit United Nations (UN), non-govermental organitations and the private sector (wich is making inciatives by their own) Ecuador’s difficulty in ending this breach of child rights comes from the disparity of incomes between families of indigenous or Afro-Ecuadorean descent and those of European or Mestizo descent. In 2004 the Labour Ministry appointed groups of inspector and set it to twenty-two different provinces, they they need to remove any child under fifteen years old or adolescent who worked more than six hours in a day, they also check dangeorus labor condition for the childrens, these groups have save thousands of childrens in Ecuador.

But child labour is still common, UNICEF and the International Labour Organization (ILO) helped the goverment to get good ideas or solutions; in 2004, under the impetus of a critical report by Human Rights Watch (HRW), the government instituted a strategic plan to monitor a number of workplaces across the country in hopes of reducing the utilization of children in the workplace.

The convention 182 said that the worst works for childrens are: 1.Slavery. 2.Prostitution or pornography. 3.Illegal acitivities such as traffic. 4.Or dangerous jobs that can damage the child.

Considering the statistics only a six percent of child population between the ages of five and fourting are involved in child labour.

Some quotes: “Children remain vulnerable. That’s why national enterprises are urged to adopt codes of conduct guaranteeing that neither they nor their subcontractors will employ children in conditions that violate their rights. Social policies must be developed to take into account the best interests of the child and include measures to protect those interests,” said UNICEF Ecuador Representative, Paul Martin.

-“This inspection has a broader scope than to examine the child worker. It also involves all areas concerning the workplace; health, work policy, social environment, and other related issues,” said Monica Suarez, who wrote the inspection manual used by inspectors.

"is our policy that the company's agricultural farms and plantations of independent producers, all workers must be at least 16 years of age. Official and verifiable documentation must be maintained for each worker. Bonita supports the actions and initiatives taken by the Ecuadorian government aimed at the progressive elimination of child labor in the banana sector, " said Álvaro Noboa (PRIAM). (Some people said he exploted child at his banana plantations).

What we can do to eradicate child labour is to send more people to save the childs who work and to send the ones who make the childrens work, to prison also we can help the poor people economically so they dind´t make their childrens work.

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