| 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)
GENERAL NOTES AND
OBSERVATIONS
* There were no reports
of violations of the child labour laws.
(US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
|
| Child
Slavery |
- |
| Child
Trafficking |
GENERAL NOTES
AND OBSERVATIONS
* Korea ranks
7th in terms of destination of deployed overseas Filipino workers,
closely following Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore and Japan.Illegal
recruitments, allegedly for work abroad, have historically been
exploited to bring women into prostitution or other forms of sexual
exploitation in foreign lands. (CATW-Asia
Pacific, Jean Enriquez, "Filipinos in Prostitution around U.S. Military
Bases in Korea")
|
| Child
Prostitution and
Pornography |
GENERAL NOTES
AND OBSERVATIONS
* Korea ranks
7th in terms of destination of deployed overseas Filipino workers.
Illegal recruitments, allegedly for work abroad, have historically
been exploited to bring women into prostitution or other forms of
sexual exploitation in foreign lands. Current official estimates
place the number of undocumented workers as 14,000. (CATW-Asia
Pacific, Jean Enriquez, "Filipinos in Prostitution around U.S. Military
Bases in Korea")
|
| Children
in Crime |
GENERAL JUVENILE
CRIME STATISTICS
* 8.0% of total
prisoners are juveniles. (UNDP,
Human Development Report, 1999)
* In 1998 there
were 182 reported cases of juvenile crime, representing 6.65% of
all criminal cases. The specific offences were: 79 cases of all
types of theft (6.50% of all cases), 16 cases of aggravated theft
(7.40% of all cases), 19 cases of breaking and entering (8.70% of
all cases), 11 cases of theft of motor cars (5.30% of all cases),
51 cases of other theft (6.5091% of all cases), cases of fraud (28%
of all cases)
(INTERPOL, International Crime Statistics
for 1998, citing National
Statistics)
|
| Child
Soldiers |
RECRUITMENT
LAWS AND REGULATIONS
* The government declared
in 1989 that it had no plans to introduce compulsory military service.
(CSUCS,
Asia Report, July 2000)
NOTES ON
GOVERNMENT FORCES
* It is not
known if there are under-18s in government armed forces due to insufficient
information regarding recruitment age. (CSUCS,
Global Report on Child Soldiers - 2001, 12 June 2001)
|
| Domestic
Child Servants |
- |
Other
Hazardous
Child Labour |
- |
|
