| Total
Child Labour |
NATIONAL STATISTICS
* Official statistics
are provided by Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes
Economiques (INSEE). In 1998 they estimated 129,155 paid workers
under 18, a total of 0.65% of the labor force. (ILO-IPEC, Peter
Dorman, Working Paper, Child Labour in Developed Economies, Geneva,
January 2001)
* For the year
2000, 341110 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)
*
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)
LOCAL
STATISTICS
*
5,000 boys and 3,000 girls were working on the streets in Paris
alone in 1988. (Human Rights Watch)
GENERAL
NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS
* Laws prohibiting child
employment are enforced effectively. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
* Child
workers are not a significant phenomenon.
(EFCW, Children Who Work
in Europe, June 1998)
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| Child
Slavery |
GENERAL
NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS
* Trafficking
for domestic slavery is present. (US
Dept. of State, Trafficking in Persons Report, July 12, 2001)
* Some diplomats have domestic slaves. They are usually foreign
nationals and diplomats from places where slavery already exists,
such as the Gulf and North Africa, but also include native French.
(American Anti-Slavery Group, Jesse
Sage, e-mail to GMIS, 6 November 2000, citing Kevin Bales, Disposable
People)
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| Child
Trafficking |
GENERAL NOTES
AND OBSERVATIONS
* Trafficking
for domestic slavery is present. (US
Dept. of State, Trafficking in Persons Report, July 12, 2001)
* France is
a destination and transit country for trafficked victims, primarily
women from Africa, South America, Eastern and Southern Europe, and
the New Independent States. In general, victims are trafficked into
sexual exploitation or domestic slavery. (US
Dept. of State, Trafficking in Persons Report, July 12, 2001)
* In May the
magazine Le Nouvel Observateur quoted the Commissaire of OCRTEH
as saying that two-thirds of the foreign prostitutes in the country
were from Eastern Europe (including the former Soviet Union), whereas
in the previous few months, they represented only one-third. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2000, February 2001 citing Le Nouvel Observateur)
* The law prohibits
trafficking; however, there were reports that women and girls were trafficked
from Madagascar to the nearby islands of Reunion and Mauritius for prostitution.
(US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
* According
to OCRTEH, nearly a third of female victims of trafficking were
foreigners, and the number of minors who were victims remained constant
from 1996 to 1998. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
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| Child
Prostitution and
Pornography |
GENERAL NOTES
AND OBSERVATIONS
* France is
a destination and transit country for trafficked victims, primarily
women from Africa, South America, Eastern and Southern Europe, and
the New Independent States. In general, victims are trafficked into
sexual exploitation or domestic slavery. (US
Dept. of State, Trafficking in Persons Report, July 12, 2001)
* Child prostitution seems to be a phenomenon of concern.
(EFCW, Children Who Work in Europe,
June 1998)
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| Children
in Crime |
GENERAL JUVENILE
CRIME STATISTICS
* In 1998, there
were 777,284 reported cases of juvenile crime, representing 21.80%
of all criminal cases. The specific offences were: 144 cases of murder
(6.70% of all murders), 3,800 cases of serious assault (15.90% of
all cases), 781,368 cases of all types of theft (34.10% of all cases),
188,024 cases of aggravated theft (38.10% of all cases), 34,222 cases
of robbery and violent theft (40.60% of all cases), 146,883 cases
of breaking and entering (37.10% of all cases), 112,445 cases of theft
of motor cars (35.20% of all cases), 481,976 cases of other theft
(32.60% of all cases), 12,589 cases of fraud (4.40% of all cases),
189 cases of counterfeit currency offences (14.70% of all cases),
17,921 cases of drug offences (19.30% of all cases).
(INTERPOL, International Crime Statistics
for 1998, citing National
Statistics)
* 513 minors
were imprisoned in Paris in 1995.
(DCI,
International Child Rights Monitor, October 1994 to March 1995)
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| Child
Soldiers |
GOVERNMENT
FORCE STATISTICS
* According
to the Permanent Mission of France in Geneva, in 1997 there were
456 recruits under 18, or 2% of annual recruits. In 2000, between
2 and 3% of all male recruits were between the ages of 16 and 19,
and a slightly higher proportion of females were in that age grouping.
(CSUCS,
Global Report on Child Soldiers - 2001, 12 June 2001)
* 456 under 18s were
recruited in 1997, which represented 2% of the annual recruitment. (CSUCS,
Europe Report, October 1999, citing Mission of France to the UN)
RECRUITMENT LAWS
AND REGULATIONS
*
By 2002, conscription will be suspended as decided in 1997 by a law passed
by the Parliament.
(CSUCS,
Europe Report, October 1999)
* The latest
legislation has fixed the age of military service at 18 years but
young men could ask to be enlisted from October
1 of the year during which they turn 18. (CSUCS,
Europe Report, October 1999)
NOTES ON
GOVERNMENT FORCES
*
There are indications of under-18s in government armed force, some
several hundred per year. The PKK, a Kurdish opposition group from
Turkey, is known to have recruited children in France. (CSUCS,
Global Report on Child Soldiers - 2001, 12 June 2001)
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| Domestic
Child Servants |
GENERAL
NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS
* Some diplomats
have domestic slaves. They are usually foreign nationals and diplomats
from places where slavery already exists, such as the Gulf and North
Africa, but also include native French.
(American
Anti-Slavery Group, Jesse Sage, e-mail to GMIS, 6 November 2000,
citing Kevin Bales, Disposable People)
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Other
Hazardous
Child Labour |
SPECIFIC
SECTORS
* Street Children - The
recent migration from former East Germany and from other former countries
of the Council for Mutual Economic Co-operation
(COMECON) is expected to affect the number of street children.
(EFCW, Children Who Work in Europe, June 1998)
* Street Children - The presence of street children began
to constitute a significant problem starting from the 1980s. Some
authorities consider that street children amount to 10,000.
(EFCW,
Children Who Work in Europe, June 1998)
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