| 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)
* Official data
indicates the main activities which children perform, include agriculture,
where 18,528 worked, of which 1,745 were 14 years old, manufacturing,
where 10,871 young people were employed, of which 836 were 14 years
old, wholesale and retail trade employing 16,154 young workers, of
which 512 were aged 14. Other important sectors were construction,
hotels and restaurants. (EFCW, Children
Who Work in Europe, June 1998)
* For the year
2000, 100626 children between 15-19 years were economically active.
(ILO, Yearbook of Labour Statistics, 2001)
*
4,316 in 1996 and 1,666 in 1997. (ILO,
Yearbook of Labour Statistics, 1998)
* Officially in
1996, there were 72,347 children aged 14-19 who were working. (EFCW,
Children Who Work in Europe, June 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 * The most common sectors where children
are employed are agriculture, wholesale and retail trade, repair
of motor vehicles, production of household goods, manufacturing,
construction, hotels and restaurants.
(EFCW, Children Who Work in
Europe, June 1998)
* Findings of the
NOW survey revealed the presence of child workers in different fields,
and particularly in agriculture. (EFCW, Children
Who Work in Europe, June 1998)
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| Child
Slavery |
GENERAL NOTES
AND OBSERVATIONS
* There is a rising
phenomenon of 'children in the street' the majority of whom carry out forms
of forced labour. (EFCW,
Children Who Work in Europe, June 1998)
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| Child
Trafficking |
NATIONAL STATISTICS
* An academic
observer estimated that approximately 40,000 women, most between
the ages of 12 and 25, are trafficked to the country each year for
prostitution. (US
Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2001,
March 2002)
* Around 3,000
Albanian children are trafficked to Italy and Greece and are used
for begging and cleaning windows of cars without payment.
(CRCA,
The Vicious Circle, 2000)
*
40% of the minors in prostitution in Greece are from Uzbekistan,
Kazakhastan, Armenia, Albania and Iraq.
(ECPAT
International, A Step Forward, 1999)
ADULT STATISTICS
*
According to a Panteion University study, over 85,000 trafficked
women have worked in the country in the past decade. Of female prostitutes,
75 percent are not told why they are being brought to Greece. (US
Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2001,
March 2002)
*
Greece is both a transit and destination country for trafficked
women. Trafficking in women for prostitution in Greece has increased
sharply in recent years. At any give time, some 16,000 to 20,000
trafficked women are in the country, according to unofficial estimates.
Approximately 2,400 trafficked women were deported from Greece during
the year; many are quickly brought back into the country, according
to official sources. (US
Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2000,
February 2001)
GENERAL
NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS
* Greece is
a transit and destination country for trafficking. Most victims
are women who are trafficked for sexual exploitation through Greece
to Western Europe from Ukraine, Russia, Bulgaria, Albania, and Yugoslavia.
(US
Dept. of State, Trafficking in Persons Report, July 12, 2001)
*
Trafficking in women for prostitution in Greece has increased sharply in
recent years. While the government is stiffening its border controls, in
part because of the EU Schengen agreement, there are figures suggesting
that many women are brought into the country from neighbouring Bulgaria,
Albania, or the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. The victims of this
practice are often minors. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
* Moldova is a source
country for trafficking of women and girls. Women and girls reportedly are
trafficked to Israel, Turkey, Italy and Greece through Romania, Serbia-Montenegro,
Slovakia and Albania. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
* Relief agencies warned
that criminal gangs were trying to abduct young girls from Kosovo and traffic
them to Italy and Greece for forced prostitution.
(US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
* There are increasing
numbers of illegal immigrant women from the Balkan states and Eastern Europe
being trafficked to Greece. (CATW
Fact Book, citing "Greece cracks down on prostitution", UPI, 17 December
1997)
* The main concentrations
of prostituted Dominican women working abroad are in Austria, Curacao, Germany,
Greece, Haiti, Italy, the Netherlands, Panama, Puerto Rico, Spain, Switzerland,
Venezuela and the West Indies. (CATW
Fact Book, citing "Trafficking in Women From the Dominican Republic for
Sexual Exploitation", IOM, June 1996)
* In the Czech Republic,
the growing organised crime networks have engaged in the trafficking of
young women into Western Europe, especially to Germany, Italy, Netherlands
and Greece. The operation uses Slovakia as a transit country.
(CATW
Fact Book, citing "Highway to prostitution", The Euroreporter, 1995)
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| Child
Prostitution and
Pornography |
NATIONAL
STATISTICS
* Findings indicate that
the number of minor children in prostitution has tripled during the last
5 or 6 years. (ECPAT
International, A Step Forward, 1999)
*
In Greece, more than 40% of the minors in prostitution are from
neighbouring or regional countries, including Uzbekistan, Kazakhastan,
Armenia, Albania and Iraq which are suffering from conflicts and
lack of social cohesion. (ECPAT
International, A Step Forward, 1999)
*
A study in Greece from 1995-97 identified almost 2,900 minors in
prostitution. More than 200 of them were under 12 years old. (ECPAT
International, A Step Forward, 1999)
*
5,500 cases of sexual exploitation were reported in the last 3 years.
(International Save the Children Alliance, Children's Rights: Reality
or Rhetoric?, 1999)
LOCAL
STATISTICS
* Prostitution is now
legal in Greece. In December 1997, there were 160 brothels in Athens, 24
operating without permits. (CATW
Fact Book, citing "Greece cracks down on prostitution", UPI, 17 December
1997)
*
A survey by the Maragopoulos Foundation for Human Rights, carried out from
September 1995 to March 1997 in Athens, revealed the presence of around
3,000 children and young persons involved in prostitution.
(EFCW, Children Who Work in Europe, June
1998) GENERAL NOTES AND
OBSERVATIONS
* Child prostitution
is a growing phenomenon, particularly in some parts of immigrant communities
of central Athens. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
* Trafficking in women
for prostitution in Greece has increased sharply in recent years. While
the government is stiffening its border controls, in part because of the
EU Schengen agreement, there are figures suggesting that many women are
brought into the country from neighbouring Bulgaria, Albania, or the Former
Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. The victims of this practice are often minors.
(US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
* Relief agencies
warned that criminal gangs were trying to abduct young girls from Kosovo
and traffic them to Italy and Greece for forced prostitution.
(US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
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| Children
in Crime |
NATIONAL
STATISTICS
* Nearly 3,000 children
are reported to be peddling in city intersections, a section of them do
this on behalf of criminal gangs. Of the total 3,000, 78% are Albanian,
12% Balkan and 10% Romanian. (US
Dept of State, Human Rights Report, 1998)
GENERAL
JUVENILE CRIME STATISTICS
* 5.9% of total
prisoners are juveniles. (UNDP,
Human Development Report, 1999)
* In 1998 there
were 23,912 reported cases of juvenile crime, representing 6.20%
of all criminal cases. The specific offences were: 10 cases of murder
(3.00% of all murders), 69 cases of serious assault (1.00% of all
cases), 8,746 cases of all types of theft (10.00% of all cases),
498 cases of aggravated theft (13.10% of all cases), 171 cases of
robbery and violent theft (7.60% of all cases), 4,510 cases of breaking
and entering (10.50% of all cases), 2,152 cases of theft of motor
cars (12.80% of all cases), 3,178 cases of other theft (14.70% of
all cases), 1 cases of fraud (0.20% of all cases), 13 cases of counterfeit
currency offences (0.50% of all cases), 289 cases of drug offences
(4.40% of all cases) (INTERPOL,
International Crime Statistics for 1998, citing National
Statistics)
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| Child
Soldiers |
RECRUITMENT
LAWS AND REGULATIONS
* There are
indications of under-18s in government armed forces as volunteers
may serve from the age of 17. (CSUCS,
Global Report on Child Soldiers - 2001, 12 June 2001)
* Volunteers from
16 years of age are taken in the government armed forces. (Rädda
Barnen, Childwar database)
* The minimum age for conscription is 18 years.
(Guy Goodwin-Gill and Ilene Cohn, Child Soldiers, The Role of Children in Armed Conflicts, A Study on Behalf of the Henry Dunant Institute, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1994)
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| Domestic
Child Servants |
GENERAL NOTES
AND OBSERVATIONS
* Findings of the
NOW survey revealed the presence of child workers in different fields including
domestic work. (EFCW,
Children Who Work in Europe, June 1998)
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Other
Hazardous
Child Labour |
ASSORTED STATISTICS
*
In August police detained a group of 35 Roma children from Albania,
between the ages of 3 months and 11 years old, who were begging
or being exploited by beggars in the streets. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2000, February 2001)
* Findings of
a research carried out by Pedagogical Institute reveals that the
construction sector employs around 27% of working adolescents and
young people (aged 12-21), followed by the agricultural and food
production sector (16,3%), and car jobs (12,1%).
(EFCW, Children Who Work in Europe,
June 1998)
GENERAL NOTES
AND OBSERVATIONS
*
In recent years, the number of street children who panhandle or
peddle at city intersections on behalf of adult family members or
for criminal gangs increased. According to the Ministry of Public
Order, 78% of these children are Albanian, 12% are from other Balkan
countries, and 10% are Romani. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2000, February 2001)
*
Findings of the NOW survey revealed the presence of child workers in different
fields, and particularly in domestic work, manufacturing industries, markets
and retails, street services, etc. (EFCW,
Children Who Work in Europe, June 1998)
SPECIFIC
SECTORS
* Begging - Around 3,000
Albanian children are trafficked to Italy and Greece and are used for begging
and cleaning windows of cars without payment.
(CRCA,
The Vicious Circle, 2000)
* Construction - In 1996, in Greece, 70 children under the age of
15 years were employed in the construction sector.
(EFCW, Children
Who Work in Europe, June 1998)
* Leather Tannery - Reports
exist of child labour in the tannery sector.
(EI, EI Barometer on Human and Trade Union Rights in the Education Sector, 1998)
* Street Children - The
migratory flows from the new European democracies in recent years has led
to the dramatic increase of children and young people on the streets. Some
of them fall into prostitution and are sexually exploited.
(EFCW, Children Who Work in Europe, June 1998)
* Street Children
- Rising phenomenon of "children in the street", the majority of these
carry out forms of forced labour. (EFCW,
Children Who Work in Europe, June 1998)
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