| Total
Child Labour |
NATIONAL STATISTICS
* For the year
2000, 597000 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)
GENERAL
NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS
* The Ministry of
Labour enforces child labour laws, and generally they were respected. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
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| Child
Slavery |
GENERAL NOTES
AND OBSERVATIONS
* No cases of forced
child labour have been reported. (US
Dept of State, Human Rights Report, 1998)
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| Child
Trafficking |
GENERAL NOTES AND
OBSERVATIONS
* Information
on trafficking is difficult to obtain, and little, if any research
is done on the subject. Anecdotal reports indicate that the country
is both a source and transit country for trafficking. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2000, February 2001)
* Georgia is
a source and a transit country for trafficking in both men and women.
Georgians are mostly trafficked to Turkey, Greece, Israel, and Western
Europe for work in bars, domestic service, and prostitution. Russian
and Ukrainian women are trafficked through Georgia to Turkey. (US
Dept. of State, Trafficking in Persons Report, July 12, 2001)
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| Child
Prostitution and
Pornography |
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| Children
in Crime |
GENERAL JUVENILE
CRIME STATISTICS
* 0.9% of total
prisoners are juveniles. (UNDP,
Human Development Report, 1999)
GENERAL NOTES
AND OBSERVATIONS
* Children are involved
in narcotic trade. (US
Dept of State, Human Rights Report, 1998)
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| Child
Soldiers |
RECRUITMENT
LAWS AND REGULATIONS
* UNICEF confirmed
in 1999 that law prohibits the recruitment of children under the
age of 18 and their participation in military activities in Georgia.
(CSUCS,
Global Report on Child Soldiers - 2001, 12 June 2001 citing information
provided by UNICEF, 25/6/99)
* According
to UNICEF, there are currently no under-age recruits in the country.
(CSUCS,
Global Report on Child Soldiers - 2001, 12 June 2001 citing UNICEF
op. Cit)
* The participation
of under-18s is prohibited by law. (CSUCS,
Europe Report, October 1999, citing UNICEF, 25 June 1999)
NOTES ON GOVERNMENT
FORCES
* It is alleged
that during the civil war in Abkhazia, illegal recruitment methods,
including press-ganging, were used by the armed forces when legal
forms of recruitment failed to achieve the necessary number of recruits.
There were reports that children under 18 were among those forcibly
recruited. (CSUCS,
Global Report on Child Soldiers - 2001, 12 June 2001 citing Horeman
and Stolwijk op. cit.)
* There are
no indications of under-18s in government armed forces. Children
were reportedly recruited forcibly during the civil war in Abkhazia.
(CSUCS,
Global Report on Child Soldiers - 2001, 12 June 2001)
*
Allegedly, there were instances of children under 18 years of age being
forcibly recruited. Yet, according to information provided by UNICEF, there
are currently no under-age recruits in the country. (CSUCS,
Europe Report, October 1999, citing UNICEF, 25 June 1999)
NOTES ON OPPOSITION GROUPS
* It is not known
how many children are members of Abkhazia and South Ossetia groups. (CSUCS,
Europe Report, October 1999)
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| Domestic
Child Servants |
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Other
Hazardous
Child Labour |
SPECIFIC
SECTORS
* Street Children
- The private voluntary organisation Child and Environment noted
a significant increase in the number of homeless children following
the collapse of the Soviet Union. It estimated that there are currently
more than 2,500 street children in Tbilisi. The children increasingly
survive by turning to criminal activity, narcotics, and prostitution.
(US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2000, February 2001, citing Child and Environment
report)
* Street Children
-It estimated that there
were currently more than 2,500 street children in Tbilisi.
(US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
* Street Children
- Street children and children turned homeless are found in hazardous employment
situations. (US
Dept of State, Human Rights Report, 1998)
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