Mexico City: Enslavement via new official ID

Subject: Mexico City: Enslavement via new official ID Sun Jan 20, 2008 6:24 am

In Mexico City, a drive for proper ID

Silvia Bazua helps indigenous families get the papers they need for children to access school and services.

Mexico City - High in the hills outside Mexico City, Silvia Bazua has put in a long day at the Bonampak school in Iztapalapa, one of the city's roughest districts, helping mothers overcome a key obstacle confronting their children – the lack of an official identity.

One in 6 Latin American children have no identification, according to UNICEF. In Mexico, children without birth certificates may not register in public schools, forcing many of them to work as soon as they can hawk a box of chocolates, wash the windshield of a car, or ask for a few pesos from passersby.

Ms. Bazua, a former government employee turned activist, hopes to change this. "It's a personal decision," she says. "You can either leave and forget about the problem, or you can start to fight to solve it."

Since 2001, when a census she conducted revealed large numbers of unregistered children in some of Mexico City's most marginalized areas, Bazua has been helping residents obtain birth certificates so that they can get a driver's license, register for health insurance, or attend public school.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0117/p07s01-woam.html

Mexico City: Enslavement via new official ID

Mexico City: Enslavement via new official ID

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