| Total
Child Labour |
NATIONAL STATISTICS
* For the year 2000, the ILO projects that
there will be 44,000 economically active children, 21,000 girls
and 23,000 boys between the ages of 10-14, representing 36.25% of
this age group.
(ILO, International Labour Office - Bureau of Statistics, Economically Active Population 1950-2010, STAT Working Paper, ILO 1997)
* In 1995, there
were 39,000 economically active children between the ages of 10-14,
representing 38.05% of this age group. Of these, 19,000 were girls
and 21,000 were boys. (ILO, International Labour Office - Bureau of Statistics, Economically Active Population 1950-2010, STAT Working Paper, ILO 1997)
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| Child
Slavery |
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| Child
Trafficking |
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| Child
Prostitution and
Pornography |
LOCAL STATISTICS
* There were
numerous international media reports that in 1999 over 40 East Timorese
children were flown from refugee camps in West Timor, Indonesia,
for the domestic sex trade. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2000, February 2001)
GENERAL NOTES AND
OBSERVATIONS
* East Timorese girls
and women became prostitutes as a consequence of rape by Indonesian soldiers,
high levels of unemployment and the need to support themselves and their
children, often in the absence of their men who are away fighting or have
been killed. (CATW
Fact Book, citing East Timor Human Rights Centre, Newcastle University,
Australia, "Violence By The State Against Women In East Timor", 7 November
1997)
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| Children
in Crime |
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| Child
Soldiers |
OPPOSITION GROUP
STATISTICS
* In October
1999, a French journalist reported about 250 guerrilla members were
living in one FALINTIL camp, among them girls wearing berets and
teenagers in tracksuits carrying machetes. As FALINTIL refused to
lay down its arms after the independence vote, reports of child
recruitment have continued until as recently as February 2000. (CSUCS,
Global Report on Child Soldiers - 2001, 12 June 2001 citing Weber,
O., "Timor-Oriental: dans les sanctuaires de la guérilla",
Le Point, 22/10/99)
* Pro-Indonesian
groups have reportedly abducted at least 130 East Timorese children
from refugee camps in West Timor in October 2000 in order to train
them as anti-independence activists. Pro-Indonesian groups are also
reported to have subjected East Timorese children removed from the
refugee camps with their parents' permission to orphanages in central
Java to intimidation and indoctrination. (CSUCS,
Global Report on Child Soldiers - 2001, 12 June 2001 citing JRS-AP
Information Update 19/3/01)
NOTES ON OPPOSITION
GROUPS
* 1,000 children,
aged 6 to 17, are thought to be removed from refugee camps in West
Timor. (CSUCS, Update 7, 7 November
2000, citing a BBC report on 26 October 2000)
* Both pro-independence
and pro-integration armed groups in East Timor used children during
the conflict. The age range on both sides was 10 to 18 although
most children involved tended to be between 15 and 18. (CSUCS,
Global Report on Child Soldiers - 2001, 12 June 2001 citing Lyndal
Barry op cit.)
NOTES FROM PREVIOUS ARMED CONFLICTS
* East Timorian
militias had children below 18. (Rädda Barnen, Childwar
database, citing CSUCS 2000)
* The Revolutionary
Front for Independent East Timor (Fretilin), a militant
force, recruited child soldiers below 18 years. (Rädda
Barnen, Childwar database)
* Children participated
in Intifada-like protests in East Timor, sometimes with lethal outcomes.
(Rädda Barnen, Childwar database)
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| Domestic
Child Servants |
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Other
Hazardous
Child Labour |
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