| 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)
* For the year
2000, 33400 children between 15-19 years were economically active.
(ILO, Yearbook of Labour Statistics, 2001)
* 52,200 people
between 14-19 years of age are economically active. (ILO,
Yearbook of Labour Statistics, 1999)
* 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 legal minimum working
age is 16. Children from 14 years can also work with written parental
permission. (US
Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25
February 2000)
* Available evidence
suggests that child labour in general is rare. (EI, EI Barometer on Human and Trade Union Rights in the Education Sector, 1998)
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| Child
Slavery |
GENERAL
NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS
* No cases of forced
child labour have been reported. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
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| Child
Trafficking |
GENERAL
NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS
* Lithuania
is a source, transit, and destination country for trafficking in
persons, primarily women who are trafficked for purposes of sexual
exploitation. (US
Dept. of State, Trafficking in Persons Report, July 12, 2001)
* Lithuanian
women are trafficked to Western Europe (including Germany, the Netherlands,
Denmark, France, and Austria) and the Middle East (including Israel
and the United Arab Emirates). Trafficking also occurs within Lithuania.
(US
Dept. of State, Trafficking in Persons Report, July 12, 2001)
* Trafficking in women
for the purpose of forced prostitution is a problem.
(US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
* There were three cases involving trafficking in persons revealed during
the year. In November, the Klapeida port police arrested four persons suspected
of trafficking in women. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
* In December
1997, a group of Armenians were caught in Belarus trafficking children
to Brest under false pretenses; their destination was Poland. (CATW
Fact Book, citing Noyan Tapan, "Criminal Group Trading Children
Apprehended in Belarus", 10 December 1997)
* A Lithuanian man
brought approximately 55 women from Russia to the UK to be prostituted
in flats in central London. (CATW
Fact Book, citing Michael Hoskins "Trafficking in Women for Sexual Exploitation",
Metropolitan Police Service, June 1996)
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| Child
Prostitution and
Pornography |
LOCAL STATISTICS
* In Lithuania,
it seems that 20 to 50% of the prostitutes are minors. Some children
(some of them are about 11 or 12 years) work as prostitutes in brothels
houses, and some children living in children's residence (some of
them are about 10 and 12 years old were used in pornography. (A
qui profite le crime ? Enquête sur l'exploitation sexuelle
de nos enfants. UNICEF novembre 2001)
* There are
an estimated 450 child prostitutes in Vilnius. (ECPAT
Bulletin, citing Guardian, August 1996)
*
In the capital city, representatives of local authorities believe that
there are about 1,000 prostitute in the city and that 30% of them are minors.
(ECPAT International, Helena Karlen and Christene
Hagnen, Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in Some Eastern European
Countries, March 1996)
GENERAL
NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS
* There are no specific criminal codes to prevent child pornography,
sex abuse or sex tourism. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
* A number of women, some underage, have been enticed or forced into
prostitution and sold abroad by organised crime figures. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
* Trafficking in women for the purpose of forced prostitution
is a problem.
(US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
* Child prostitution
and child pornography is a problem. (EI, EI Barometer on Human and Trade Union Rights in the Education Sector, 1998)
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| Children
in Crime |
GENERAL JUVENILE
CRIME STATISTICS
* 2.8% of total prisoners
are juveniles. (UNDP, Human Development Report, 1999)
* In 1998 there were
11,456 reported cases of juvenile crime, representing 14.66% of all criminal
cases. The specific offences were: 26 cases of murder
(7.33% of all murders), 14 cases of serious assault (3.89%
of all cases), 10,750 cases of all types of theft (20.73% of all cases),
5,662 cases of aggravated theft (21.38% of all cases), 822 cases of robbery
and violent theft (22.57% of all cases), 4,702 cases of breaking and entering
(20.59% of all cases), 1,208 cases of theft of motor cars (29.02% of all
cases), 4,159 cases of other theft (19.61% of all cases), 138 cases of
fraud (6.10% of all cases), 117 cases of counterfeit currency offences
(8.62% of all cases), 13 cases of drug offences (2.13% of all cases) (INTERPOL,
International Crime Statistics for 1998, citing National
Statistics)
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| Child
Soldiers |
RECRUITMENT
LAWS AND REGULATIONS
* There are no indications
of under-18s in government armed forces. Seventeen-year-olds are able to
enroll in military schools in which they would be considered to be part
of the armed forces during a state of war or aggression. (CSUCS,
Global Report on Child Soldiers - 2001)
* Voluntary recruitment
is possible from the age of 18. (CSUCS,
Europe Report, October 1999, citing Mission of Lithuania to the UN, 30
June 1999)
* All men between
the ages of 19 and 27 are liable for military service. (CSUCS,
Europe Report, October 1999, citing War Resisters' International, The CONCODOC
Project, 1998)
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| Domestic
Child Servants |
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Other
Hazardous
Child Labour |
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