| 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)
* Estimates based on school attendance and dropout rates suggest that between
20,000 and 30,000 children are engaged in labour, mostly in the informal
sector, in family businesses and on family farms. (EI, EI Barometer on Human and Trade Union Rights in the Education Sector, 1998)
*
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)
GENERAL
NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS
* Child labour laws
are enforced effectively. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
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| Child
Slavery |
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| Child
Trafficking |
GENERAL
NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS
*Some Asian
women brought to Fiji as garment workers are believed to be engaged
in prostitution. Most of them are believed to be from China.
("Fiji Investigates Asian Sex Trade in Garment Industry", Fiji's Daily Post/Pacific News Online, 24 March 2000, reprinted in Pacific Islands Report)
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| Child
Prostitution and
Pornography |
NATIONAL
STATISTICS
* 12% of 47
Commercial sex workers in Urban centres were under 19 year. (ECPAT-
Australia, AusAID, First Pacific Regional Conference on Preventing
the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Pacific Children, citing,
Nii. K Plange, Commercial Sex Workers in Fiji (1996), June 1998)
GENERAL NOTES
AND OBSERVATIONS
* Some Asian women brought to Fiji as garment workers are believed
to be engaged in prostitution. Most of them are believed to be from
China. ("Fiji Investigates Asian Sex Trade in Garment Industry", Fiji's Daily Post/Pacific News Online, 24 March 2000, reprinted in Pacific Islands Report)
* There are reports of parents offering the sexual services of
their own children for money to sailors from Korea and Taiwan who
come to Fiji for refueling. (UN Special Rapporteur on the Sale of
Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography, Report on Fiji,
27 December 1999)
* Boys and girls in Fiji become involved in prostitution because
of poverty, boredom, desire to earn money for extra spending, demand
by tourists and lack of enforcement of education. (UN
Special Rapporteur on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and
Child Pornography, Report on Fiji, 27 December 1999)
* Child prostitution is happening in urban centres, says Adi Vulase
of Safetynet Care Fiji, a non-profit organisation that looks into
the welfare of homeless children. ("Fiji Kids in Sex Trade", Fiji
Times, 29 October 1999, reprinted in Pacific Islands Report)
* Street children
in Fiji are in danger of sexual exploitation and being involved
in prostitution for Western tourists.
("Fiji Kids
in Sex Trade", Fiji Times, 29 October 1999, reprinted in Pacific
Islands Report)
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| Children
in Crime |
GENERAL JUVENILE
CRIME STATISTICS
* In 1998 there
were 215 reported cases of juvenile crime, representing 1.00% of
all criminal cases. The specific offences were: 7% of all cases
of murder; 9 cases of serious assault
(0.30% of all cases), 37 cases of all types of theft
(0.74% of all cases), 21 cases of aggravated theft (2.00% of all
cases), 3 cases of robbery and violent theft (0.39% of all cases),
8 cases of breaking and entering (0.32% of all cases), 0.18% of
all cases of theft of motor cars 16 cases of other theft (3.00%
of all cases), 25 cases of drug offences (6.00% of all cases).
(INTERPOL, International Crime Statistics
for 1998, citing National
Statistics)
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| Child
Soldiers |
OPPOSITION
GROUP STATISTICS
*There have
been about 200 youths between 10 and 30 years old in military training
of the rebel army. ("Fiji Rebels Train Child Soldiers",
USP Journalism/Fiji's Daily Post/Pasifik Nius/Niuswire, 24 June
2000, reprinted in Pacific Islands Report)
RECRUITMENT
LAWS AND REGULATIONS
* A person must be at least 18 years of age to be recruited into the
army. (CSUCS,
Asia Report, July 2000, citing Report of Fiji to the UN CRC, 24 September
1996)
*
There is no conscription in Fiji. (CSUCS,
Asia Report, July 2000, citing Rachel Brett and Margaret McCallin,
Children: The Invisible Soldiers, 1998)
NOTES
ON GOVERNMENT FORCES
* There is no evidence
of underage recruitment. (CSUCS,
Asia Report, July 2000)
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| Domestic
Child Servants |
- |
Other
Hazardous
Child Labour |
SPECIFIC
SECTORS
* Garment Manufacturing - The garment industry in Fiji is suspected
to employ about 1,500 children. However, Fiji's Textile, Clothing
and Footwear Council denied the allegation.
("Fiji Garment Council Denies Child Labour Claims", PACNEWS, 6 January
1999, reprinted in Pacific Islands Report)
* Street Children
- In November 1999, 73 street kids were found in Suva, Fiji.There
is a growing number of women and children on the street.
("Concern Over Children and Women
and the Streets of Fiji", The Fiji Times/PINA Nius Online, 10 March
2000, reprinted in Pacific Islands Report)
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