Highlights
- •As the crisis in Venezuela deepens, an increasing number of children urgently needs shelter and protection.
- •Children and young people are particularly at risk of criminal activity or being separated from their families.
- •Women and girls will continue affected in terms of the risk of gender-based violence and human trafficking.
Abstract
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.
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Published online: December 23, 2021
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