Venezuela

By: Stephanie Luciana / 12A

Venezuela
Country on the Northen Coast of South
America
World's largest known oil reserve and world
leading exporting oil
Capital : Caracas
Population : 31.98 million (2017)
Area : 916,445 km2
Language : Spanish
Currencies : Venezuelan Boliva (VES)
 Almost 90% of Venezuelan population live below the poverty line.

• Began in 2010 due to

dependency on oil for the
last 3 decades
• Oil became the primary
sources of income
• Caused other induesties to
suffer and collapse
 VIOLATION
• Human trafficking
• Worker’s right
• The right for education
 Human Trafficking
• Men, women, and children are trafficked for commercial
purposes
• poverty rate are increasing
• Women and girls are trafficked within the country for
sexual exploitation and recruited from false job offer and
forced into prostitution
• They fall for the false job offer since they need to make a
living because there gender inequality in Venezuela so
they find it hard to be recruited or having an equal wage
Lucia Palacios
• Work as prostitute, selling sexual favour to British and German
holidaymakers on Costa de Sol
• “This is the first time and the last time that I will work in this
industry,” she said.
• Work 24 hours without sleep
• Forced to leave Venezuela
 Law
In March 2007, the Venezuelan government enacted the Organic Law on the
Right of Women to a Violence-Free Life.

• Article 56 of the new law prohibits the trafficking of women, girls, and
adolescents for purposes of sexual exploitation, prostitution, forced labor,
or slavery, and prescribes punishments of 15 to 20 years' imprisonment.

• Articles 46 and 47 of the new law prohibit forced prostitution and sexual
slavery and carry penalties of 15 to 20 years' imprisonment.
 Unemployment
• Corruption and mismanagement under
former president Hugo Chávez, and now
Mr Maduro, have created a perfect storm.
• More than 30% of the population is out of
work and, for those in work, the monthly
minimum wage has been so eroded by
inflation that it is only enough to buy single
cup of coffee.
Minimum wage in Venezuela is $6.13.  To control inflation, the minimum
wage in Venezuela was recently raised by 58%.

Based on current exchange rates, this values at about $6.13.

Cases

Yaimy Flores, a Caracas housewife, struggles to provide basic

necessities for her family. Her household income, provided by her
husband’s minimum wage job as a janitor, is 5,196,000 bolivares a
month. That is approximately $20. Much of the food they eat is
dispersed from government programs and hygiene products are
rationed. Despite working long hours in dire conditions, Venezuelans are
barely scraping by on the minimum wage under heavy economic
inflation.
The Rights to have education
• Families haven’t been able to
afford school supplies
• At the beginning of the 2018-2019
school year, teachers in Venezuela
noticed fewer students in
attendance than usual.
• 3 million of the country’s 8
million school-aged children have
dropped out.
• Many school buildings are falling
apart
Example
In the rural town of Caucagua

• a school didn’t have power in

September and the running water only
worked three days a week.

At another school in the border state of

Tachira,

• one teacher said that they couldn’t start

the school year because they lacked
inadequate sanitation and insufficient
food.

Student went to school to eat

 Children are dropping out of
school to work
• Children who live near the border were victims of child labor

• Children migrating without work visas and passports

(exploitation)

• They frequently ask for money on the street, because money for
food is more important than for school
 LAW
Children under 15 are not allowed to work and
no child can be employed in a hazardous job
that poses a risk to health or life.
 Solution
• Raisepublic awareness about the dangers
of human trafficking by airing public service
announcements.

• Create law to maintain the equality of the

wages

• Government subsidies to make better

school
Source
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/02/10-things-you-need-to-know-
about-venezuelas-human-rights-crisis/
https://borgenproject.org/top-10-facts-about-poverty-in-venezuela/
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/women-and-girls/venezuelas-crisis-
fuelling-prostitution-sex-trafficking-costa/
https://www.dlapiperintelligence.com/goingglobal/employment/index.html?t=08-
minimum-employment-rights&c=VE
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-colombia-child-labour-venezuela/hundreds-
of-venezuelan-children-victims-of-child-labor-in-colombia-government-
idUSKBN1J901A
https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/venezuela-crisis-childrens-education/