| Total
Child Labour |
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| Child
Slavery |
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| Child
Trafficking |
REGIONAL STATISTICS
* It is estimated
that 50,000 women and children alone are trafficked to that country every
year. There have been reports of trafficking in at least 20 states, with
most cases occurring in California, Florida and New York. Primary source
countries for the United States are identified as China, the Czech Republic,
Mexico, the Russian Federation, Thailand, Ukraine and Vietnam. Women have
also been trafficked from Brazil, Honduras, Hungary, the Republic of Korea,
Latvia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Poland, among other countries. Women
have been trafficked primarily for the sex industry, though also to provide
maid services at hotels, peddle trinkets on subways and buses, work in
sweatshops and beg. Their average age is thought to be roughly 20 years
old. (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)
* It is estimated
that 45,000 to 50,000 people, primarily women and children, are trafficked
to the US. annually. Canada is a primarily a transit and destination country
for trafficking in persons, primarily from East Asia (especially China
and Korea), Eastern Europe, Russia, and Honduras. There are also isolated
cases of Canadian minors trafficked by pimps to the United States for the
purpose of sexual exploitation.
(US, State dept, staff '01)
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| Child
Prostitution |
COUNTRY STATISTICS
* 300,000 to 600,000 juveniles are involved in prostitution in the United
States. (CATW, fact book 2001 citing, Gary Costello of the
Exploited Child Unit of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children,
"Danger for prostitutes increasing, most starting younger," Beacon
Journal, 21 September 1997)
* 70 to 80% of those
involved in the Canadian sex industry began as children. (CATW,
fact book 2001, citing Kimberly Daum, "Sexually Exploitated Children
in Canada: The Law is Not on Their Side," Opinion/Essays, 17 October
1996)
GENERAL NOTES AND
OBSERVATIONS
* Girls involved in
prostitution are increasingly getting younger, dropping from 14, to 13
and 12 years of age in the United States. (CATW, fact book
2001 citing, Lois Lee, founder of Children of the Night, Brad Knickerbocker,
"Prostitution's Pernicious Reach Grows in the US," Christian
Science Monitor, 23 October 1996)
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| Children
in Crime |
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| Child
Soldiers |
GENERAL
NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS
* The United States has
acknowledged that 17-year-old soldiers served in US operations in the Gulf
War, Somalia and Bosnia. In June 1999, the Pentagon reported that less than
one hundred 17-year-olds were serving in combat units at that time, primarily
in the Balkans region. Despite being the first country to ratify the new
Optional Protocol, Canada continues to accept voluntary recruits at 16 (although
it has passed legislation to prohibit their deployment).
(CSUCS, Global Report on Child Soldiers - 2001, 12 June 2001)
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| Domestic
Child Servants |
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| Other
Hazardous Child Labour |
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