| 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.
(ILO, International Labour Office - Bureau of Statistics, Economically Active Population 1950-2010, STAT Working Paper, ILO 1997)
*
In 1995, 0.02% of the children between the ages of 10-14 were economically
active. (ILO, International Labour Office - Bureau of Statistics, Economically Active Population 1950-2010, STAT Working Paper, ILO 1997)
GENERAL NOTES AND
OBSERVATIONS
* Children sometimes
assisted their families with farm work and other odd jobs.
(US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
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| Child
Slavery |
GENERAL NOTES
AND OBSERVATIONS
* A significant
number of women are manipulated or coerced into situations in which
they work in brothels in conditions close to slavery. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2000, February 2001)
* Child servitude
or forced labour is not known.
(US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
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| Child
Trafficking |
ADULT STATISTICS
* As many as
5,000 trafficked women may be working in the country. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2000, February 2001)
* From March
1999 to January 2001, there were 384 confirmed cases of women trafficked
for sexual exploitation; 236 women were returned to their home countries.
(US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2000, February 2001)
* The IPTF reports
that they have encountered approximately 4,000 women in their raids of
bars and estimate that 10% of the women have been trafficked. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2000, February 2001 citing IPTF reports)
GENERAL NOTES
AND OBSERVATIONS
* Trafficking in girls
for the purpose of forced prostitution is a problem. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2000, February 2001)
* The country is mainly
a destination point, and to a lesser extent an origin and transit point,
for women and girls who are trafficked for the purpose of forced prostitution.
Most victims are from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2000, February 2001)
* There have been
credible but unconfirmed reports that children are trafficked to work in
begging rings. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2000, February 2001)
* The majority of
trafficked women in Bosnia come from Moldova, Romania, and Ukraine, but
also come from Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Bulgaria. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2000, February 2001)
* The ages of the
trafficked women averaged 22.8 years, ranging between 16 and 33 years of
age. Less than 5% of the women were minors. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2000, February 2001)
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| Child
Prostitution and
Pornography |
GENERAL NOTES
AND OBSERVATIONS
* Trafficking
in girls for the purpose of forced prostitution is a problem. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2000, February 2001)
* A significant number
of women are manipulated or coerced into situations in which they work
in brothels in conditions close to slavery.(US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2000, February 2001)
* The country is an
origin, transit, and destination point for women and girls trafficked for
the purpose of forced prostitution. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
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| Children
in Crime |
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| Child
Soldiers |
RECRUITMENT
LAWS AND REGULATIONS
*
It is asserted that voluntary recruitment can take place for young men
in the calendar year when they turn 17 i.e., at the age of 16. (CSUCS,
Europe Report, October 1999, citing UNICEF, 22 June 1999)
NOTES ON GOVERNMENT
FORCES
* According to UNICEF,
children under 18 years were not obliged to participate in military forces,
very few of them joined the military forces as volunteers, and they were
accepted only if they were older than 16 years. (CSUCS,
Global Report on Child Soldiers - 2001, 12 June 2001 citing information
provided by UNICEF, 22/6/99)
* It is claimed that all men above the age of 18 are liable for military
service. This has been confirmed by UNICEF. (CSUCS,
Europe Report, October 1999, citing War Resisters' International, The CONCODOC
Project, 1998)
NOTES FROM PREVIOUS
ARMED CONFLICTS
* According
to sources including the UN, some 3,000 to 4,000 children participated
in hostilities between 1992-1995 in the former Yugoslavia, the vast
majority in Bosnia and Croatia. (CSUCS,
Global Report on Child Soldiers - 2001, 12 June 2001 citing Brett
and McCallin op. cit quoting UN Study on the Impact of Armed Conflict
on Children)
* One source
estimated that more than 20,000 children between 13 and 16 were
involved in the conflict (CSUCS,
Global Report on Child Soldiers - 2001, 12 June 2001 citing N. Dokovska,
Journalists for the Rights of Women, Children and the Environment)
* The Croatian Ministry
of Defence strongly denied such recruitment occurred. (CSUCS,
Global Report on Child Soldiers - 2001, 12 June 2001 citing remarks to
the draft report 'The Use of Children as Soldiers in Europe', communication
to the CSC, 12/11/99.)
*
The country case study conducted for the UN Study on the Impact of Armed
Conflict on Children quoted one instance of a 10-year-old child taking
part in the hostilities. Rädda Barnen's Swedish magazine, Barnen och vi,
also quoted the enrolment of children as young as 11 in the regular forces.
In 1995, the magazine contained an interview with a 15-year-old from Bosnia-Herzegovina
who became a soldier during the war. (CSUCS,
Europe Report, October 1999, citing Rädda Barnen, Children of War, No.
2/96.)
* According to UNICEF,
during the war from 1992 to 1995, "children under 18 were not obliged to
participate in military forces" and "very few of them joined the military
forces as volunteers and they were accepted only if they were older than
16." This is however is contested by another source, which alleges that
between 3,000 and 4,000 children participated in the 1992-1995 war in the
former territory of Yugoslavia, the vast majority in Bosnia and Croatia.
(CSUCS,
Europe Report, October 1999, citing UN Study on the Impact of Armed Conflict
on Children)
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| Domestic
Child Servants |
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Other
Hazardous
Child Labour |
SPECIFIC
SECTORS
* Begging -
There have been credible but unconfirmed reports that children are
trafficked to work in begging rings. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2000, February 2001)
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