5E RENCONTRE DES ENFANTS TRAVAILLEURS D’AMERIQUE DU SUD ET DES CARAÏBES, 1997
Extraits :
“Our organisations are struggling day to day for the improvement of our condicions of work and life, for our rights to have education of quality and adapted to our needs, free health care, to get organised and share our actions, to be protagonists of our lives in our societies as social subjects.”
“YES to work –NO to exploitation!
YES to work in DIGNITY – NO to conditions without dignity!
YES to work –NO to marginalisation!
YES to work –NO to discrimation
“We, Latin American and Caribbean NAT’s (=working children and adolescents), tpgether with African and Asian NATs, in opposition to the culture of death which deprives us of our rights and our full integration in society, consider ourselves producers of life. Not to recognise this fact is to increase the marginalisation which we already suffer and which gives the lie to any talk of citizenship.”
“Our organisations have proved to be the best means to protect ourselves against exploitation, ill treatment and marginalisation from society. In our organisations, we are full persons, in dignity, capable, proud of our work; in them, we educate ourselves and we create a space for solidarity and for alternative proposals against the violence and poverty that the present system imposes on us and are unacceptable.”
