| 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)
* 218,481 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)
*
53,443 of 0-15-year-olds in 1991, and 0 in 1997 were economically active.
(ILO, Yearbook of Labour Statistics, 1998)
GENERAL
NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS
* The UN Committee
on the Rights of the Child expressed its concern about the problem of child
labour. (UN
CRC, Concluding observations on Denmark, 1995)
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| Child
Slavery |
GENERAL NOTES AND
OBSERVATIONS
* No instances of
forced child labour are cited. (US
Dept of State, Human Rights Report, 1998)
|
| Child
Trafficking |
GENERAL
NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS
* Trafficking
involved the importation of women mostly from Eastern Europe and
Southeast Asia. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2000, February 2001)
* In July one
non-governmental organisation assisted a Colombian trafficking victim
in a precedent-setting case in which the woman testified against
her traffickers and subsequently received asylum in Denmark. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2000, February 2001)
* Germany, Israel,
the Netherlands, Denmark and Austria are major destinations for women trafficked
from Lithuania, based on the figures of women subsequently deported from
these countries to Lithuania. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
* Sweden is used as
a transit country for trafficking Latin American women to brothels in Denmark,
Germany and the Netherlands. (CATW
Fact Book, citing European Conference on Trafficking in Women, Trafficking
of Women to the European Union, June 1996)
|
| Child
Prostitution and
Pornography |
GENERAL NOTES AND
OBSERVATIONS
* The Committee expressed
its concern about the occurrence of the sexual exploitation of children.
(UN
CRC, Concluding observations on Denmark, 1995)
|
| Children
in Crime |
GENERAL JUVENILE
CRIME STATISTICS
* 7,740 children came in conflict
with law.
(International Save the Children Alliance, Children's
Rights: Reality or Rhetoric?, 1999)
* 1.3% of total
prisoners are juveniles. (UNDP,
Human Development Report, 1999)
|
| Child
Soldiers |
RECRUITMENT
LAWS AND REGULATIONS
* In June 1998,
the minimum legal age for voluntary recruitment into the armed forces
was raised to 18 years without any exceptions. (CSUCS,
Europe Report, October 1999, citing Mission of Denmark to the UN,
23 July 1999)
* The minimum age to
join the Danish Home Guard has been raised to 18 years. (CSUCS,
Europe Report, October 1999, citing Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
18 October 1999)
* 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)
NOTES
ON GOVERNMENT FORCES
* There are no indications of under-18s in government armed forces. The
minimum age for voluntary recruitment has recently been raised to 18. (CSUCS,
Global Report on Child Soldiers - 2001, 12 June 2001)
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| Domestic
Child Servants |
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Other
Hazardous
Child Labour |
ASSORTED
STATISTICS
* 10,000 children,
mainly older boys, are employed in the industrial sector.
(EFCW, Children Who Work in Europe, June
1998)
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