| Total
Child Labour |
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| Child
Slavery |
- |
| Child
Trafficking |
NATIONAL
STATISTICS
* Around 40
Indonesian females are sent to Taiwan and Hong Kong every month.
(UNICEF
Indonesia, Mohammad Farid, "Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children
in Indonesia", Child Workers in Asia, January-March 2000)
GENERAL NOTES AND
OBSERVATIONS
* Taiwan is a destination
point for internationally trafficked persons. Some young women from Southeast
Asia, primarily China and Thailand, are trafficked for the purpose of sexual
exploitation. (US
Dept. of State, Trafficking in Persons Report, July 12, 2001)
* Girls are lured
from Burma, Cambodia, Laos and south China for the sex markets in Taiwan.
("Human Trafficking: Gangs make Thailand
a regional hub", Bangkok Post, 6 September 2000, reprinted in Stop Trafficking
Archive, September 2000)
* NGOs and the media
report that Indonesian women and girls are trafficked to Malaysia, Taiwan
and Japan as sex workers.
(US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
* Malaysian women
are trafficked for sexual purposes not only to Singapore, Macau, Hong Kong,
and Taiwan, but also to Japan, Australia, Canada and the United States.
(US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
* Malaysian children
are trafficked into Japan, Hongkong, Taiwan and Australia. (Lawyers
for Human Rights and Legal Action, The Flesh Trade Report, 1995-1996)
* Malaysia is a receiving
country for trafficked women from Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand,
China, India, Taiwan, Singapore, Burma, Vietnam, Sri Lanka and Laos. (CATW-Asia
Pacific, Trafficking in Women and Prostitution in the Asia Pacific, 1996)
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| Child
Prostitution and
Pornography |
NATIONAL
STATISTICS
* There are 30,000
minors in prostitution in Taiwan according to government estimates.
(CATW,
The Fact Book on Global Sexual Exploitation, 1999, 1999, citing
government estimates)
* In Taiwan, between 40,000 and 60,000 children are sex workers.
(UNICEF, Children on the Edge, citing, UNICEF Issue Brief (1999),
Child Protection Section, UNICEF East Asia and Pacific)
*
Child prostitution is a problem in the wider community and involves between
40,000 and 60,000 children. Most child prostitutes range from 12 to 16
years of age. (EI, EI Barometer on Human and Trade Union Rights in the Education Sector, 1998)
* 60,000 children
are involved in prostitution in Taiwan. (June Kane, Sold for Sex, Aren Ashgate Publising Limited Gower House, 1998)
* 40% of young prostitutes
in the main red-light district are aboriginal girls. (CATW-Asia
Pacific, Trafficking in Women and Prostitution in the Asia Pacific, 1996)
* There are an estimated
100,000 children in prostitution. (UNICEF
Report, December 1994)
GENERAL NOTES AND
OBSERVATIONS
* Girls are lured from Burma,
Cambodia, Laos, and south China for the sex markets in Thailand or to be
diverted to Malaysia, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan. ("Human
Trafficking: Gangs make Thailand a regional hub", Bangkok Post, 6 September
2000, reprinted in Stop Trafficking Archive, September 2000)
* Child prostitution
is a serious problem among Aborigine Malayo-Polynesians children. (US
Dept of State, Human Rights Report, 1998)
* The sale of Aboriginal girls into prostitution by their parents is a serious
social problem. (EI, EI Barometer on Human and Trade Union Rights in the Education Sector, 1998)
* Girls under 13 have
been made to undergo hormone injections by brothels owners to hasten their
physical development. (CATW-Asia
Pacific, Trafficking in Women and Prostitution in the Asia Pacific, 1996)
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| Children
in Crime |
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| Child
Soldiers |
GOVERNMENT
FORCE STATISTICS
* 140,000 men between
15 to 24 enter military service annually for two years. ("Children
of War", Far Eastern Economic Review, October 1995, Rädda Barnen)
* From 1990-1995,
2,355 young conscripts died in the course of their military service. (CSUCS,
Asia Report, July 2000, citing Rädda Barnen database, citing L'état du
monde 1997, Editions Découverte)
NOTES ON
GOVERNMENT FORCES
*
It is not known if there are any under-18s in the armed forces due to a
lack of information on the minimum voluntary recruitment age. (CSUCS,
Global Report on Child Soldiers - 2001)
*
Reports from the early 1990s indicated that children as young as 15 have
in the past been recruited into the armed forces despite a minimum age
of 18 for compulsory recruitment. (CSUCS,
Global Report on Child Soldiers - 2001 citing Radda Barnen, http://www.rb.se)
* It
is unclear to what extent underage recruitment continues to be a problem
in Taiwan. Human rights observers say they are not aware of such reports.
(CSUCS,
Global Report on Child Soldiers - 2001 citing Communication from Brian
Kennedy, Taiwan Association of Human Rights to CSC, 2/3/01)
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| Domestic
Child Servants |
- |
Other
Hazardous
Child Labour |
- |
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