Echoes of Global Silence: Is there protection and safety for Venezuelan children and adolescents?

Autor: Pires JP; 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. Electronic address: pediatra2021@bol.com.br., Feitosa PWG; Hospital Regional do Cariri - HRC, Juazeiro do Norte, Ceará, Brazil., da Silva CGL; Director of the Faculty of Medicine, Coordinator of the Pathology Laboratory of the Federal University of Cariri-UFCA, Barbalha, Ceará, Brazil., Araújo JEB; Researcher for the Master in Health Sciences at the Faculty of Medicine, UFCA and Infectologist at the Federal University of Campina Grande - UFCG, Cajazeiras, Paraiba, Brazil., Lima DGS; Researcher at the Faculty of Medicine of Juazeiro do Norte - FMJ/IDOMED, Juazeiro do Norte, Ceará, Brazil., Cavalcanti SP; Specialist in Clinical Medicine by the Faculty of Medicine of the Federal University of Cariri -UFCA, Graduate Degree in Psychiatry at Santa Casa de Misericórdia de São Paulo - SCMSP, Brazil., Castro G; Intensive Care Unit of Hospital Guarás, Program Management in Health Services at the University Ceuma Maranhão, Piauí, Brazil., Vieira NB; School of Medicine, Federal University of Cariri - UFCA, Barbalha, Ceará, Brazil., Neto MLR; Scientific Writing Laboratory, School of Medicine, Federal University of Cariri, Barbalha, Ceara, Brazil., de Menezes HL; Julio Alves de Lira Hospital and Maternity Hospital, Belo Jardim, Pernambuco, PE, Brazil., Lima NNR; Graduate Program in Neuropsychiatry, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco - UFPE, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil., Reis AOA; School of Public Health, University of São Paulo - USP, São Paulo, SP, Brazil., E Silva SQG; Researcher and Lawyer at Gurgel & Quezado Advocacy, Juazeiro do Norte, Ceará, Brazil., de Matos AAG; School of Medicine, Federal University of Cariri - UFCA, Barbalha, Ceará, Brazil., Pereira YTG; Mais Médicos Program - Federal Government of Brazil, Ministry of Health, Iguatú, Ceará, Brazil., da Silva UP; Doctoral Program in Nuerosciences and Human Development - Logos University International - UNILOGOS, Miami, FL, United States of America.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of pediatric nursing [J Pediatr Nurs] 2022 Jul-Aug; Vol. 65, pp. e17-e18. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Dec 24.
DOI: 10.1016/j.pedn.2021.12.015
Abstrakt: 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.
Competing Interests: Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
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