| Total
Child Labour |
REGIONAL
STATISTICS
*Of the estimated 250 million children between the ages of 5 and 14 who
are economically active, the proportion of child labour around the world
is 32% in Africa. In economic activity participation rate of children, which
is estimated at a little more than two children out of five (or 41%) of
the total children 5-14 years old. (ILO - IPEC, Kebebew Aghagrie, Statistics on Working Children and Hazardous Child Labour in Brief, Geneva: 1997 revised April 1998)
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| Child
Slavery |
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| Child
Trafficking |
GENERAL NOTES AND
OBSERVATIONS
* In Africa,
there is limited documentation on labour trafficking within the region.
It is recognized that young African women have been quite widely trafficked
to the European sex trade. In the mid-1990s there was a wave of reported
trafficking from West Africa, in particular Ghana and Nigeria, to Italy,
the Netherlands and other European countries. (ILO. Report
of the Director General, Stopping forced labour, Global Report under the
Follow-up to the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at
Work, International Labour Conference, 89th Session2001, Geneva: ILO)
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| Child
Prostitution |
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| Children
in Crime |
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| Child
Soldiers |
REGIONAL
STATISTICS
* The Coalition to Stop
the Use of Child Soldiers believes that more than 120,000 children under
18 years of age are currently participating in armed conflicts across Africa,
some no more than 7 or 8 years of age. In recent years, the countries most
affected by this problem have been Angola, Burundi, Congo-Brazzaville, the
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Ethiopia, Liberia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone,
Sudan and Uganda.In the past two decades the Middle East and North Africa
region has witnessed some of the worst and most egregious cases of the exploitation
of children as soldiers. . In the early 1980s, during the Iran-Iraq war,
thousands of Iranian children, many straight from school, were used by popular
militias in human wave attacks against Iraqi forces, often given a symbolic
key to the paradise promised them as martyrs. The conflict in Sudan has
long been recognized as one of the worst child soldier problems anywhere
in the world. Thousands of children as young as 12 have been forcibly recruited
into government-aligned and separatist groups in the south of the country.(CSUCS,
Global Report on Child Soldiers - 2001, 12 June 2001)
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| Domestic
Child Servants |
GENERAL
NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS
* The trafficking of child domestic workers - within and across borders
- is a fastgrowing informal-sector activity in West and Central Africa.
In most countries of the region, internal trafficking from rural to urban
areas is common. Cross-border trafficking, instead, occurs mainly from Benin,
Ghana, Nigeria and Togo to the Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, equatorial Guinea,
Gabon and, again, Nigeria, which like Benin is both a country of origin
and a receiving country.( Innocenti Digest 5, Child Domestic
Work, UNICEF, May 1999 citing Veil, L., UNICEF West and Central Africa Regional
Office, 'The Issue of Child Domestic Labour and Trafficking in West and
Central Africa', study prepared for a sub-regional workshop on 'Trafficking
in child domestic workers, in particular girls in domestic service in West
and Central Africa', held in Cotonou, Benin, on 6-8 July 1998.)
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| Other
Hazardous Child Labour |
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