AUSTRALIA NETWORK NEWS
A GOVERNMENT REPORT in Papua New Guinea has raised concerns about child labour in Port Moresby. The International Labour Organisation, which undertook the report for the government, says it interviewed more than 400 children working in the sex industry, selling drugs and stealing for a living.
AIDS Holistics typed Australia Network News into Google and searched for Child Prostitution and drug dealing in Moresby which was the title that appeared on the Jackson Blog. The Australia Network News advised the report did not exist. Is this a fake report? Shame lesbians. Please keep reading:
National Program Coordinator Marie Jane Fatiaki told Radio Australia that family poverty was involved in many of the cases.
"The majority of children have parents that (sic) knew about the work they did on the streets," she said.
Were the parents interviewed. AH? The implication here is that the parents support their child's activities. It may be the cause of severe family problems.
Some children may have been punished. Parents reach the point that they can not stop what their children do. They may kick them out. That is discrimination. They may reason with their children which may be a waste of time.
They may hit them. That is violence and abuse. They may accept their lifestyle and their money. The lesbians have been working to tie the hands of the parents. Then they will steal the kids.
"And even with some children who were in commercial sexual exploitation, this was with the knowledge of the parents, as well as their involvement in getting clients for these children."
The report is based on interviews with 175 child sex workers, mainly girls, and over 200 children working on the streets.
Nearly 70% of the children were found to be involved in hazardous work, including chopping firewood for sale, moving furniture, loading and unloading boxes from containers, controlling traffic and scrap metal scavenging.
This report has an air of unreality in that the young people interviewed were in the sex industry, selling drugs and stealing. So who were chopping firewood? moving furniture, unloading containers, controlling traffic and scavenging for scrap metal?
Very few children are seen chopping wood in the firewood selling sites. Where were they moving furniture and unloading containers? Where was traffic controlled? and scrap metal being scavenged?
It all sounds a little imaginary. Were they working for long hours in these activities? Were they helping their parents? If the report is fake, it may mean that all statiistics are fake too. AH
They also worked very long hours and were subjected to physical and verbal abuse.
It was probably those terrible abusive fathers. Only real abuse of young workers comes from many Chinese store owners. The food bars specialize in teenage pretty girls. AH.
Children were also engaged in illicit activities including begging, stealing and selling drugs.
"Poverty is one of the main reasons why these children are working," Ms Fatiaki said.
"There are other reasons, such as family breakdown, parental neglect, abuse, peer pressure...but poverty, as well as a lack of opportunity for parents, and children who have dropped out of school, has been the main reason.
How does an unemployed family find money for food if their only asset is their young daughter? Morality runs last in the decisions of parents.
If a family is starving and the son comes home with money, who is to reject the money because it was stolen? How old are these children?
What of the reports we read of young girls with mobile phones soliciting sex from men? They are not poor. This is their way of having hundreds of kina in their hands every week. AH.
PNG Labour Minister, Martin Aini, says the country's labour laws are being reformed to try and prevent child labour.
"Judging by the incredible facts, statistics, figures and discoveries in this report, it is crucial for us to plan a way forward to address this situation through practical approaches, policies and interventions," he said.
The words of the Labour Minister above sound fake. These are not a fabulous discovery. Yet the minister talks of incredible facts, statistics and discoveries. It does not sound like a politician. AH.
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