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)

* In 1995, there were 2,000 economically active children between the ages of 10-14, representing 0.25% of this age group. (ILO, International Labour Office - Bureau of Statistics, Economically Active Population 1950-2010, STAT Working Paper, ILO 1997)

GENERAL NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS

* Reports of bonded labour are frequent. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)

* There have been reports of trafficking in persons. Libyans have been implicated in the purchase of Sudanese slaves, mainly southern Sudanese women and children, who were captured by Sudanese government troops in the ongoing civil war in Sudan. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)

GENERAL NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS

* There have been reports of trafficking in persons. Libyans have been implicated in the purchase of Sudanese slaves, mainly southern Sudanese women and children, who were captured by Sudanese government troops in the ongoing civil war in Sudan. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)

* In 1998 there were 1,110 reported cases of juvenile crime, representing 2.30% of all criminal cases. The specific offences were: 8 cases of serious assault (3.40% of all cases), 425 cases of all types of theft (2.70% of all cases), 0.17% of all cases of aggravated theft (0.17% of all cases), 442 cases of other theft (2.90% of all cases), 7 cases of fraud (0.39% of all cases) (INTERPOL, International Crime Statistics for 1998, citing National Statistics)

* The minimum age for conscription is unclear. According to Act No. 9 of 1987 (as amended) concerning national service, national service is compulsory for all citizens who have attained 18 years of age. (CSUCS, Global Report on Child Soldiers - 2001 citing Initial Report of Libya to the Committee on the Rights of the Child, UN Doc. CRC/C/28/Add.6, 26, 9/96)

* Volunteers from 14 years of age are in the 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) 

GENERAL NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS

* There are indications of under-18s in government armed forces as conflicting information suggests that recruitment under 18 is possible, but children are reportedly not deployed. (CSUCS, Global Report on Child Soldiers - 2001)