| Total
Child Labour |
NATIONAL
STATISTICS
* For the year
2000, the ILO projects that there will be 0 economically active children
between the ages of 10-14, representing 0% of this age group. (ILO, International Labour Office - Bureau of Statistics, Economically Active Population 1950-2010, STAT Working Paper, ILO 1997)
*
In 1995, there were 58,000 economically active children, most of
them girls between the ages of 10-14, representing 1.63% of this
age group. (ILO, International Labour Office - Bureau of Statistics, Economically Active Population 1950-2010, STAT Working Paper, ILO 1997)
GENERAL NOTES
AND OBSERVATIONS
* The minimum employment
age is not enforced effectively in the agricultural or private sectors.
(US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
* Economic necessity
compels many children to resort to informal employment, such as
street vending. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
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| Child
Slavery |
GENERAL NOTES
AND OBSERVATIONS
* Armed terrorist
groups reportedly kidnap young women and keep them as sex slaves. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
* The Government prohibits
forced and bonded labour by children and generally enforces this prohibition.
(US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
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| Child
Trafficking |
GENERAL NOTES AND
OBSERVATIONS
* There are unconfirmed
reports that young Algerian girls are trafficked to Italy and other Western
countries. The girls are sometimes forced into prostitution or marriage.
(ECPAT, CSEC Database, http://www.ecpat.net/eng/ecpat_inter/projects/monitoring/online_database/index.asp)
* Algerian women are
trafficked to Italy. (CATW
Fact Book, citing IOM, European Race Audit Bulletin, 25 November 1997)
* The country is reported
as a place of transit for traffickers. (US
Dept of Labor, Prostitution of Children, 1996)
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| Child
Prostitution and
Pornography |
GENERAL NOTES AND
OBSERVATIONS
* In Algeria,
like most of Africa, child prostitution is increasing.
(ECPAT,
CSEC Database, http://www.ecpat.net/eng/ecpat_inter/projects/monitoring/online_database/index.asp)
* In the cities
and the tourist areas, increase in tourism is related to the growth
of commercial sexual exploitation of children. (ECPAT,
CSEC Database, http://www.ecpat.net/eng/ecpat_inter/projects/monitoring/online_database/index.asp)
* Not
only girls, but also boys that work as vendors, couriers or domestic
helps, are vulnerable to sexual exploitation in the cities.
(ECPAT,
CSEC Database, http://www.ecpat.net/eng/ecpat_inter/projects/monitoring/online_database/index.asp)
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| Children
in Crime |
GENERAL JUVENILE
CRIME STATISTICS
* In 1998, the
specific offences involving juveniles were: 20 cases of murder (6.00%
of all murders) 2,014 cases of all types of theft (8.28% of all
cases), 1,341 cases of aggravated theft (13.09% of all cases), 108
cases of breaking and entering (4.00% of all cases), 54 cases of
drug offences (1.94% of all cases)
(INTERPOL, International Crime Statistics
for 1998, citing National
Statistics)
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| Child
Soldiers |
RECRUITMENT
LAWS AND REGULATIONS
*
The minimum age for recruitment (conscription)
is 19 years. (CSUCS,
Africa Report, April 1999, citing Ordinance 74-103 of 15 November 1974)
COMBINED
NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS
*
It has been reported that children and youth are actively participating
both in the local militias linked to the government and in the armed groups
opposed to the governmental armed forces. (CSUCS,
Africa Report, April 1999, citing Peter Strandberg, Swedish freelance journalist)
NOTES
ON OPPOSITION GROUPS
*
Armed opposition groups are widely reported to have children in
their ranks. (CSUCS,
Global Report on Child Soldiers - 2001, 12 June 2001)
A
journalist who secretly visited an AIS (the Islamic Salvation Army)
camp in 1997 reported the presence of boys, some as young as 15,
among the movement's soldiers. (CSUCS,
Global Report on Child Soldiers - 2001, 12 June 2001 citing Dennis
M., Newsweek, 30/6/97)
* Another source
has claimed that The Armed Islamic Group, Groupe Islamique Armés,
uses young boys, mainly in their early teens, to plant bombs and
carry out surprise attacks.
(CSUCS,
Global Report on Child Soldiers - 2001, 12 June 2001 citing information
received from reliable source that requests confidentiality)
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| Domestic
Child Servants |
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Other
Hazardous
Child Labour |
SPECIFIC
SECTORS
* Street Vending -
Economic necessity compels many children to resort to informal employment,
such as street vending. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
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