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Viewing cable 05MANILA5861, HUMAN RIGHTS/LABOR: USG-FUNDED ANTI-CHILD LABOR

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05MANILA5861 2005-12-16 06:22 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED Embassy Manila
This record is a partial extract of the original cable. The full text of the original cable is not available.
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 MANILA 005861 
 
SIPDIS 
 
DEPT FOR EAP/MTS, EAP/MLS, EAP/PD, R, DRL/IL, DRL/SEA 
DEPT OF LABOR/ILAB - C. CASTRO 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PHUM PREL PGOV ELAB KDEM KPAO RP
SUBJECT: HUMAN RIGHTS/LABOR:  USG-FUNDED ANTI-CHILD LABOR 
PROJECT; SHELTER, PRISON VISITS; OUTREACH TO STUDENTS 
 
REF: A. MANILA 5794 
     B. MANILA 3830 
     C. MANILA 2555 
     D. MANILA 1897 
 
1.  (U) Summary:  Focusing on key human rights and labor 
items, poloff and pol LES visited Dumaguete City in Negros 
Oriental Province in the Central Philippines, December 13-14. 
 A USDOL-funded anti-child labor project in the area is 
proceeding well.  Conditions at a local shelter run by the 
GRP for women and children were adequate.  The municipal jail 
was overcrowded and there was one child being held in the 
facility (the team expressed concern about this).  As part of 
Mission's outreach activities for Human Rights Week, poloff 
spoke with students on U.S. support for human rights and 
democracy.  End Summary. 
 
DOL-Funded Anti-Child Labor Project Launched 
-------------------------------------------- 
 
2.  (U) Poloff and pol LES visited Dumaguete City in Negros 
Oriental Province in the Visayan region of the Central 
Philippines, December 13-14.  The visit focused on human 
rights and labor issues.  In Dumaguete, the team met with the 
Goretti Foundation, a local non-governmental organization. 
The Foundation has recently launched a one-year project 
entitled "Implementing and Sustaining the Elimination of 
Child Labor" under the ILO-managed Philippine Time Bound 
Program (PTBP) to combat child labor.  (Note:  The USDOL 
funds several initiatives through the ILO to combat child 
labor in the Philippines -- see refs B and D for background, 
including the Goretti Foundation project.  End Note.) 
 
3.  (U) The project targets 1186 sugarcane plantation child 
laborers working in six municipalities (as well as 1488 
children at risk of becoming child laborers) with the aim of 
removing them from the workplace and enrolling them in formal 
or vocational education.  The project also provides skills 
training and resources to assist the children's families in 
setting up livelihood activities.  According to the 
Foundation, the project's greatest challenge is resistance 
from parents who fear the loss of income from their 
children's labor.  To counter this, the Foundation is 
conducting activities to educate parents on the hazards of 
child labor.  (Note:  Another USDOL-funded project under the 
PTBP is scheduled to end in February 2006.  This project, 
which is run by the Association for the Welfare of Filipino 
Children, has returned approximately 1700 working and at-risk 
children to public schools in four municipalities in Negros 
Oriental, according to the ILO.  End Note.) 
 
4.  (U) The local government has been very supportive of 
anti-child labor programs, according to the Foundation.  The 
local government has agreed to finance regular meetings of 
NGOs working on the issue, for example, and was active in 
urging sugar plantation owners to set aside plots of land 
that families could use as income-generating vegetable 
gardens under the Foundation project.  The local government 
had also pledged to provide seedlings and microfinance for 
livelihood activities.  Contacts noted, however, that both 
the local government and the GRP suffered from serious 
resource constraints, which makes a comprehensive anti-child 
labor effort in the region problematic. 
 
Shelter, Prison Visits 
---------------------- 
 
5.  (U) The team also visited a municipal shelter for women 
and children.  Eleven of the 16 women and children currently 
at the shelter come from areas outside Dumaguete City.  The 
majority of women there, according to a social worker, were 
victims of rape.  The shelter can comfortably hold 40 
occupants.  Shelter staff, however, explained that the 
shelter does not take in older children -- teenage street 
children, for example -- and that there were no facilities 
for these children in the province.  Overall, facility 
conditions appeared to be adequate. 
 
6.  (U) The Dumaguete municipal jail, however, was another 
story.  The dilapidated jail was overcrowded.  According to 
the warden, there were 274 inmates, though the facility was 
originally built to hold 96.  The warden said the facility 
was currently holding one child.  The child (a male; the age 
was not given) had not been charged with any crime, but was 
awaiting psychiatric evaluation.  He was being kept in a 
separate cell, the warden said.  The warden noted that the 
province does not have any separate detention facilities for 
children.  The team expressed concern about the situation 
this minor was in.  The warden indicated that the jail often 
has child prisoners who pass through either because a parent 
was incarcerated or because the child had been accused of 
crimes.  (Note:  See ref C which reviews the status of child 
prisoners in the Philippines.  End Note.) 
Talk at Local University 
------------------------ 
 
7.  (U) Poloff also spoke to a group of approximately 100 
students and professors at Silliman University on the topic 
of "Promoting Human Rights and Democracy:  A Cornerstone of 
U.S. Foreign Policy."  The event was part of Silliman 
University's ongoing lecture series in commemoration of 
International Human Rights Week (ref A).  During the 
hour-long session, students and professors asked 
well-informed and probing questions about the U.S. position 
on the International Criminal Court, the U.S. relationship 
with Saudi Arabia, U.S. advocacy of trade liberalization, the 
Guantanamo Bay detention facility, and situation at the Abu 
Ghraib facility in Iraq.  In response to questions in the 
latter area, poloff reiterated recent remarks that Secretary 
Rice had made on this matter during her recent trip to 
Europe.  Attendees told poloff and pol FSN that they had 
enjoyed the session and looked forward to additional Mission 
visits. 
 
Jones