| Total
Child Labour |
NATIONAL STATISTICS
* Children work
informally in petty trade, scavenging in dumpsites, scavenging coal
from abandoned mines and herding animals. Figures vary as to the
number of children in the labor force, but estimates are as high
as 58,000. (US
Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2001,
March 2002)
* For the year
2000, the ILO projects that there will be 5,000 economically active
children, 2,000 girls and 3,000 boys between the ages of 10-14,
representing 1.35% of this age group. (ILO,
International Labour Office - Bureau of Statistics, Economically
Active Population 1950-2010, STAT Working Paper, ILO 1997)
* 1,695 children
between the ages of 0-14 and 91,841 between 15-19 years are economically
active. (ILO, Yearbook of Labour Statistics,
1999)
* It is estimated
that there are only about 5,000 children involved in regular labour
activities, most of them in the informal sector. (ILO-IPEC,
Country Paper: Mongolia, September 1999)
*
In 1995 there were 6,000 economically active children, 2,000 girls
and 3,000 boys between the ages of 10-14, representing 1.90% 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
* The minimum age for
employment is 16 years, but children between 14-16 years can work with parental
consent. (US
Dept of State, Human Rights Report, 1998)
* Abuse of the child
labour laws is common. (EI, EI Barometer on Human and Trade Union Rights in the Education Sector, 1998)
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| Child
Slavery |
GENERAL NOTES
AND OBSERVATIONS
* Street children
are more likely to get involved in slavery-like conditions.
(ILO-IPEC, Country Paper: Mongolia, September
1999)
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| Child
Trafficking |
GENERAL NOTES
AND OBSERVATIONS
* It is believed
that the primary targets of trafficking schemes are young women,
ranging in age from 14 years to the mid-20s, who come from the middle
class. These girls and women are lured abroad by offers to study
or work. (US
Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2001,
March 2002)
* The law does
not specifically prohibit trafficking in persons and there is evidence
that Mongolian women and teenagers are working in the sex trade
in Asia and Eastern Europe. (US
Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999,
25 February 2000)
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| Child
Prostitution and
Pornography |
GENERAL NOTES
AND OBSERVATIONS
* Child prostitution,
especially procuring and offering of child prostitution.
(ILO-IPEC, Country Paper: Mongolia, September
1999)
* The law does not
specifically prohibit trafficking in persons and there is evidence that
Mongolian women and teenagers are working in the sex trade in Asia and
Eastern Europe. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
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| Children
in Crime |
GENERAL JUVENILE
CRIME STATISTICS
* In 1998 there
were 1,682 reported cases of juvenile crime, representing 7.40%
of all criminal cases. The specific offences were: 13 cases of murder
(2.30% of all murders); 54 cases of serious assault (3.10% of all
cases); 1327 cases of all types of theft (11.10% of all cases);
1,323 cases of aggravated theft (11.10% of all cases); 58 cases
of robbery and violent theft (15.80% of all cases); 1,103 cases
of breaking and entering (10.70% of all cases); 38 cases of fraud
(3.10% of all cases)
(INTERPOL, International Crime Statistics
for 1998, citing NATIONAL
STATISTICS)
GENERAL NOTES
AND OBSERVATIONS
* Street children
more likely to become victims of crime. (ILO-IPEC,
Country Paper: Mongolia, September 1999)
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| Child
Soldiers |
RECRUITMENT
LAWS AND REGULATIONS
* Conscription is
practiced in Mongolia in accordance with the 1993 Universal Military Service
Law. The minimum age for military service is 18 years and the government
has asserted that the common age for military service is 19-20 years. (CSUCS,
Asia Report, July 2000, citing Report of Mongolia to the UN CRC, 3 February
1995)
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| Domestic
Child Servants |
GENERAL NOTES
AND OBSERVATIONS
* Children are employed
informally as domestics and usually receive little or no wage. The practice
of adoptive servitude, in which families adopt young girls who serve as
domestic servants, is socially accepted.
(EI, EI Barometer on Human and Trade Union Rights in the Education Sector, 1998)
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Other
Hazardous
Child Labour |
GENERAL NOTES
AND OBSERVATIONS
* The use of minors
is common in the rug-making industry and also exists to some extent in
the textile and leather goods industries.
(EI, EI Barometer on Human and Trade Union Rights in the Education Sector, 1998)
SPECIFIC
SECTORS
* Street Children - There
are an estimated 2,000 street children. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
* Street Children - In
Ulaanbaatar and major urban centres there are growing populations of street
children. There are an estimated 3,000 street children.
(EI, EI Barometer on Human and Trade Union Rights in the Education Sector, 1998)
* Street Children
- 3,133 were registered as permanent street children at the Policy Department
in 1997. (ILO-IPEC,
Country Paper: Mongolia, September 1999)
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