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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.
(ILO, International Labour Office - Bureau of Statistics, Economically Active Population 1950-2010, STAT Working Paper, ILO 1997)
*
In 1995, there were 0 economically active children between the ages
of 10-14. (ILO, International Labour Office - Bureau of Statistics, Economically Active Population 1950-2010, STAT Working Paper, ILO 1997)
GENERAL NOTES AND
OBSERVATIONS
* The law permits children
to enroll for work with parental consent from the age of 14.
(US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
* Child labour laws are
enforced effectively. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
* The UN Committee
on the Rights of the Child expressed concern that adequate measures are
not being taken to protect children from exploitation through labour. (UN
CRC, Comments on Belarus, 1994)
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Slavery |
GENERAL NOTES
AND OBSERVATIONS
* Workers from
the Philippines, Ethiopia, India, Russia, and Belarus have reported
being forced into domestic servitude and sexual exploitation in
Bahrain. (US
Dept. of State, Trafficking in Persons Report, July 12, 2001)
* No cases of forced
labour or bonded child labour have been reported.
(US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
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Trafficking |
ADULT STATISTICS
* 1,000 Ukrainian
and Belarusan women are in prostitution in Poland. (CATW
Factbook, citing Piotr Bazylko, " Poland, Ukraine to fight sex slave industry
", Reuters,16 July 1998)
GENERAL NOTES AND
OBSERVATIONS
* The country
is both a source and transit point for women and girls being trafficked
to Central and Western Europe for purposes of prostitution. (US
Dept. of State, Trafficking in Persons Report, July 12, 2001)
* Information
from such scattered destinations as the Netherlands, Lithuania,
and Bosnia, refer to Belarus among the source countries for women
being trafficked to or through their countries, and other anecdotal
evidence suggests that the Russian Mafia is active in trafficking
young women, who end up as prostitutes in Cyprus, Greece, Israel,
and Western Europe. (US
Dept. of State, Trafficking in Persons Report, July 12, 2001)
* Russian criminal
organisations actively may try to recruit and lure women into serving
as prostitutes in Western Europe and the Middle East. (US
Dept. of State, Trafficking in Persons Report, July 12, 2001 citing
Ministry of Internal Affairs)
* Although previously
Slovakia was primarily a source country, increasingly women from less prosperous
eastern countries (including the Russian Federation,
Belarus, Ukraine, Romania, and Bulgaria) find themselves trafficked through
and to Slovakia.
(US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
* In December 1997,
a group of Armenians were caught in Belarus trafficking children to Brest
under false pretenses; their destination was Poland. (CATW
Fact Book, citing Noyan Tapan, "Criminal Group Trading Children Apprehended
in Belarus", 10 December 1997)
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