| Total
Child Labour |
NATIONAL STATISTICS
* For the year
2000, 97200 children between 15-19 years were economically active.
(ILO, Yearbook of Labour Statistics, 2001)
* 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)
* 183,200 teenagers between
15-19 years are economically active. (ILO,
Yearbook of Labour Statistics, 1999)
* 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)
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| Child
Slavery |
GENERAL NOTES
AND OBSERVATIONS
* No cases of forced
child labour are reported. (US
Dept of State, Human Rights Report, 1998)
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| Child
Trafficking |
ADULT STATISTICS
* According to various
reports, some 3,500 Bulgarian women are trafficked to Poland, thousands
to the Netherlands and the Czech Republic, while others are trafficked to
Germany, Belgium, Canada, Serbia-Montenegro, Romania, Hungary, TFYR Macedonia,
Italy, Greece, Cyprus and Turkey. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
* Of the total 751 trafficking
victims found from January 1994 to June 1995 in Austria, 133 were from Czech
Republic. (CATW
Fact Book, citing IOM Report 1996)
*
The reported numbers of women trafficked totaled 2 cases in 1992, 8 cases
in 1993, and 10 women in 1994, but knowledge from criminal activity shows
that these are small fractions of the reality.
(CATW
Fact Book, citing "Highway to prostitution", The Euroreporter, 1995)
GENERAL NOTES
AND OBSERVATIONS
*
The Czech Republic is a source, transit, and destination country
for trafficking in persons from the former Soviet Union, Africa,
Asia, and the Middle East. Czech women and girls are trafficked
to Western Europe, such as to Germany. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2000, February 2001)
* The full extent
of trafficking in children is unknown; however, convictions of child
sex offenders are reported routinely in the media. For example,
the May conviction of a group of foreigners for paedophilia was
covered widely. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2000, February 2001)
* In two separate
cases in February, men in the Teplice region were arrested for providing
Czech children to German paedophiles. Despite increased police efforts,
press reports still indicate that in many border regions sexual
tourism with adolescents continues. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2000, February 2001)
*
80% of trafficking victims in Germany come from eastern Europe and
the countries of the former Soviet Union, primarily from Poland,
Ukraine, and the Czech Republic. The other 20% of trafficking victims
come from Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
(US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
* Many of the women
involved in prostitution are Slovak gypsies.
(CATW
Fact Book, citing "Tragedy of orphans left behind in 'sin town'",
BBC, 22 December 1997)
* In the Czech
Republic, the growing organised crime networks have engaged in the
trafficking of young women into Western Europe, especially to Germany,
Italy, Netherlands and Greece. The operation uses Slovakia as a transit
country. (CATW
Fact Book, citing "Highway to prostitution", The Euroreporter, 1995)
* 20 years ago,
Thailand was in the forefront as a sending country for trafficked
women. Thailand has now become a destination country, receiving
women from Russia, Yugoslavia, Poland, and the Czech and Slovak
Republics, South America. (CATW-Asia
Pacific, Trafficking in Women and Prostitution in the Asia Pacific,
1996)
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| Child
Prostitution and
Pornography |
LOCAL STATISTICS
* There are 200 brothels
in Dubi, a small town on the border of the Czech Republic. Czech and Russian
mafia control prostitution. (CATW
Fact Book, citing "Tragedy of orphans left behind in 'sin town'", BBC,
22 December 1997)
GENERAL NOTES
AND OBSERVATIONS
* There is growing evidence
of child prostitution. (ECPAT
Newsletter, May 1999)
* Trafficking in women
and girls for the purpose of forced prostitution is a problem. Law enforcement
officials report that the Czech Republic is both a transit and destination
country for traffickers in women from farther east.
(US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
* Many of the women
involved in prostitution are Slovak gypsies.
(CATW
Fact Book, citing "Tragedy of orphans left behind in 'sin town'", BBC,
22 December 1997)
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| Children
in Crime |
GENERAL JUVENILE
CRIME STATISTICS
* 7.5% of total prisoners are
juveniles.
(UNDP, Human Development Report, 1999)
* In 1998 there
were 63,889 reported cases of juvenile crime, representing 15.00%
of all criminal cases. The specific offences were: 18 cases of murder
(5.80% of all murders), 1,115 cases of serious assault (25.90% of
all cases), 49,570 cases of all types of theft (26.10% of all cases),
29,633 cases of breaking and entering (32.20% of all cases), 7,474
cases of theft of motor cars (26.80% of all cases), 41 cases of
fraud (0.30% of all cases)
(INTERPOL, International Crime Statistics
for 1998, citing National
Statistics)
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| Child
Soldiers |
RECRUITMENT
LAWS AND REGULATIONS
* The Czech Republic
has been a strong supporter of the "straight-18" position.
(CSUCS, Global Report on Child Soldiers - 2001, 12
June 2001)
* The minimum age
for conscription is 18 years. (Guy Goodwin-Gill and Ilene Cohn, Child Soldiers, The Role of Children in Armed Conflicts, A Study on Behalf of the Henry Dunant Institute, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1994)
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| Domestic
Child Servants |
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Other
Hazardous
Child Labour |
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