| Total
Child Labour |
REGIONAL STATISTICS
*Of the estimated
250 million children between the ages of 5 and 14 who are economically
active, 7% of the world's child labour is found in Latin America. The economic
activity participation rate of children it is one in six (or 17%) in Latin
America. (ILO - IPEC, Kebebew Aghagrie, Statistics on Working Children and Hazardous Child Labour in Brief, Geneva: 1997 revised April 1998 )
|
| Child
Slavery |
-
|
| Child
Trafficking |
-
|
| Child
Prostitution |
REGIONAL STATISTICS
* More than 2 million children are being sexually exploited in Latin America.
(CATW, fact book 2001, citing, Organization of American States)
GENERAL NOTES AND
OBSERVATIONS
* A growing number
of sex tourists are going to Central America, partially as a result of
the recent restrictions and operations against sex tourism in Thailand
and other Asian countries, including Sri Lanka. (CATW, fact
book 2001, citing, Casa Alianza/Covenant House Latin America, "Casa
Alianza Warns That Central America is New Sex Tourism Destination,"
17 November 1997)
|
| Children
in Crime |
-
|
| Child
Soldiers |
GENERAL
NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS
* Although the incidence
of child soldiering has reduced in Latin America as conflicts come to an
end across the region, thousands of children under 18 years of age continue
to fight with both state and non-state armed forces or groups. The countries
most affected by this problem have been Colombia and Peru, although large
numbers of children are serving in the Paraguayan armed forces and problems
persist in Mexico. (CSUCS, Global Report on Child Soldiers
- 2001, 12 June 2001)
|
| Domestic
Child Servants |
GENERAL NOTES
AND OBSERVATIONS
* In Latin America,
virtually all child domestic workers tend to be girls. (Innocenti
Digest 5, Child Domestic Work, UNICEF, May 1999 citing Salter, W., 'Child
Labour in Domestic Service', unpublished research paper on child domestic
workers for ILO, 1993, cited in UNICEF, 1997.)
|
| Other
Hazardous Child Labour |
- |
|
