Collaborating Researcher in the Health, Work and Environment discipline at the Faculty of Medicine of the Department of Community Medicine at the Federal University of Cariri - UFCA, Brabalha, Ceara, Brazil.
Hospital Regional do Cariri - HRC, Juazeiro do Norte, Ceará, Brazil.
J Pediatr Nurs. 2022 Jul-Aug;65:e17-e18. doi: 10.1016/j.pedn.2021.12.015. Epub 2021 Dec 24.
As the crisis in Venezuela deepens, an increasing number of children urgently needs shelter, protection, and access to basic services, including food, medicine, clean water, and sanitation. Children and young people in transit are particularly at risk of criminal activity or being separated from their families. The consequences of the humanitarian crisis for children could be devastating for the country's future. The child labor problem was fueled by a mass migration of more than five million Venezuelans that turned many children into livelihoods for their families. The pandemic has aggravated risk factors for child labor. The work ranges from working in dumps to agricultural fields, adding that children in rural areas are more likely to depend on public assistance and are at greater risk of being recruited by gangs. Some Venezuelan women and girls are traveling for hours or days to cross the Colombian border and earn money as sex workers. The complex and multifaceted reality of international migration reveals enormous challenges that directly affect the lives of children and adolescents, especially the most vulnerable, and demand urgent responses from the constituted powers and civil society in the face of countless human rights violations those people experience.
随着委内瑞拉危机的加深，越来越多的儿童迫切需要避难所、保护和获得基本服务，包括食物、药品、清洁水和卫生设施。过境的儿童和青少年特别容易遭受犯罪活动或与家人分离的风险。人道主义危机对儿童造成的后果可能对该国的未来造成毁灭性影响。童工问题是由超过 500 万委内瑞拉人大规模移民引发的，这使得许多儿童成为家庭的生计来源。大流行加剧了童工的风险因素。这些工作从垃圾场到农业领域都有，他补充说，农村地区的儿童更依赖公共援助，更容易被帮派招募。一些委内瑞拉妇女和女孩要花数小时或数天时间穿越哥伦比亚边境，以性工作者的身份赚钱。国际移徙的复杂和多方面现实揭示了巨大的挑战，这些挑战直接影响到儿童和青少年的生活，特别是最脆弱的儿童和青少年的生活，并要求组成权力机构和民间社会在面对无数侵犯人权行为时作出紧急反应，这些人都经历过这些行为。
