Worst Forms of Child Labour Data

Europe
Total Child Labour -
Child Slavery -
Child Trafficking

REGIONAL STATISTICS

* Approximately 500,000 women are annually trafficked into Western Europe. (CATW, fact book 2001, citing, International Organization for Migration, Michael Specter, "Traffickers' New Cargo: Naive Slavic Women," New York Times 11 January 1998)

GENERAL NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS

* In several European Union Member States, prostitution has become increasingly dominated by foreign women. In many areas within the European Union the number of migrant prostitutes is higher than the number of local prostitutes. (CATW, fact book 2001, citing, "Trafficking of Women to the European Union: Characteristic, Trends and Policy Issues," European Conference on Trafficking in Women, (June 1996), IOM, 7 May 1996)

* Women from Africa (Ghana, Nigeria, Morocco), Latin America (Brazil, Colombia, the Dominican Republic), South East Asia (the Philippines, Thailand), and Central and Eastern Europe (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia, Ukraine) are the largest groups of women being trafficked into the European Union. (CATW, fact book 2001, citing, Europe national data, "Trafficking of Women to the European Union: Characteristics, Trends and Policy Issues," European Conference on Trafficking in Women, (June 1996), IOM, 7 May 1996)
Child Prostitution

REGIONAL STATISTICS

* 500,000 women from Central and Eastern Europe are in prostitution in European Union nations. (CATW, fact bookt,www.catw.ap.org citing Roland-Pierre Paringaux, "Prostitution Takes a Turn for the West," Le Monde, 24 May 1998)
Children in Crime

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Child Soldiers GENERAL NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS

* Alone among European States, the United Kingdom routinely sends 17-year-olds into combat -even though they are not allowed under domestic legislation to drink, vote in elections, or even join the police force. British child soldiers were killed in the Gulf War as well as the Falklands conflict, some 50 under-18s served among the British contingent in the KFOR peacekeeping force in Kosovo (despite the ban on under-18s in UN peacekeeping forces). Between March 1998 and March 1999, 36 per cent (or 9,466 recruits) of the total annual recruits were under 18. (CSUCS, Global Report on Child Soldiers - 2001, 12 June 2001)

Domestic Child Servants

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Other Hazardous Child Labour -

 

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