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Child Labour |
NATIONAL STATISTICS
* For the year 2000,
the ILO projects that there will be 20,000 economically active children,
17,000 girls and 3,000 boys between the ages of 10-14, representing 0.64%
of this age group. (ILO, International Labour Office - Bureau of Statistics, Economically Active Population 1950-2010, STAT Working Paper, ILO 1997)
* 69,292 children between
0-14 years are economically active. (ILO, Yearbook of Labour
Statistics, 1999)
* In 1995, there were
172,000 economically active children, 127,000 girls and 45,000 boys between
the ages of 10-14, representing 5.61% of this age group. (ILO, International Labour Office - Bureau of Statistics, Economically Active Population 1950-2010, STAT Working Paper, ILO 1997)
* 14% of 10-14 year olds
are found working. (FNV, Eliminating Child Labour, 1995)
* More than
538,000 children in Morocco are working and more than half of them
are girls, a survey has revealed, according to new figures published
by the Moroccan Government. ("Child
Labour Rife in Morocco")
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| Child
Slavery |
GENERAL
NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS
* The Government
prohibits forced and bonded labour by children, but does not enforce
this prohibition effectively. The practice of adoptive servitude,
in which families adopt young girls and use them as indentured domestic
servants, is socially accepted, and the Government does not regulate
it. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
* Forced prostitution
is prevalent, particularly in cities with large numbers of tourists,
as well as near towns with large military installations.
(US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
* No effective
enforcement of laws against forced labour is undertaken.
(US
Dept of State, Human Rights Report, 1998)
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| Child
Trafficking |
GENERAL NOTES
AND OBSERVATIONS
*
Moroccan women are trafficked abroad to the Middle East and Europe
under the guise of legitimate job offers and then sexually exploited.
There is also internal trafficking of women and children; girls
are trafficked primarily for domestic servitude and women are trafficked
for sexual exploitation. (US
Dept. of State, Trafficking in Persons Report, July 12, 2001)
* Forced prostitution
involving Moroccans also occurs abroad. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
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| Child
Prostitution and
Pornography |
NATIONAL
STATISTICS
* Teenage prostitution
in urban centers has been estimated in the tens of thousands by NGO activists.
(US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
GENERAL
NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS
*
There is also internal trafficking of women and children; girls
are trafficked primarily for domestic servitude and women are trafficked
for sexual exploitation.
(US Dept. of State, Trafficking in Persons Report, July 12, 2001)
*
Forced prostitution is prevalent, particularly in cities with large numbers
of tourists, as well as near towns with large military installations.
(US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
* Forced prostitution
involving Moroccans also occurs abroad. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
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| Children
in Crime |
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| Child
Soldiers |
RECRUITMENT
LAWS AND REGULATIONS
*
18 years is the minimum age for voluntary or compulsory recruitment in
the armed forces as fixed by the Royal Decree of 9 June 1966. (CSUCS,
Africa Report, April 1999, citing Report of Morocco to the UN CRC, 19 August
1995)
NOTES
ON GOVERNMENT FORCES
*
There is no evidence of underage recruitment into the Moroccan armed forces.
(CSUCS,
Africa Report, April 1999, citing UNICEF)
NOTES
ON OPPOSITION GROUPS
* In Polisario or Popular
Front for the Liberation of Saguia el Hamra and Rio de Oro Mil wing of
Sahrawi People's Liberation Army the age of conscription is 17; they become
combatants at 19. (Rädda
Barnen, Childwar database, citing Quaker Peace and Service Report, Child
Soldiers, September 1993)
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| Domestic
Child Servants |
NATIONAL STATISTICS
* Another study
estimated that 20,000 child maids are working in Morocco's other
major cities. According to the survey, over 80 percent of the child
maids are illiterate and over 80 percent are from rural areas. (US
Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2001,
March 2002)
* Children
in Morocco are also exploited in domestic servitude and trafficked
internally for that purpose. It is estimated that more than 50,000
children, work as child domestics in that country. (ILO-IPEC,
Trafficking of Children, The problem and responses worldwide, citing
Anti Slavery International: Reporter- July 2001, 2001)
* A sample survey
shows that of the domestic workers 27% are under 10 years and 73%
are under 12 years. (ILO, Child Labour: What Is To Be Done?, June
1996, citing Moroccan League for the Protection of Children in collaboration
with the Ministry of Health); 70% of housemaids interviewed in 1995
were under the age of 13 with a quarter of them below 10. (Anti-Slavery
International, Children working as domestic servants: progress and
challenges, submission to the UN, May 1998)
*
A survey found that 72% of child domestic workers began their day
before 7am and went to bed after 11pm.
(ILO,
Targeting the Intolerable, November 1996)
LOCAL
STATISTICS
*
The Ministry of Planning and Economic Forecasting, with funding
from UNICEF and through collaboration with domestic NGO's, conducted
a survey from April to June 2000 of domestic employees in Casablanca.
The study concluded that there are approximately 13,000 girls under
age 15 employed as child maids in Casablanca. (US
Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2001,
March 2002)
GENERAL
NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS
* Children, particularly rural girls, are employed informally as domestics.
(US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
* The practice of
adoptive servitude, in which families adopt young rural girls and use them
as domestic servants in their homes, is prevalent.
(US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
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Other
Hazardous
Child Labour |
GENERAL NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS
* In practice children often are apprenticed before age 12, particularly
in the informal handicraft industry. The use of minors is common in the
small family-run workshops that produce rugs, ceramics, wood work, and
leather goods. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
*
Small leather tanning and manufacturing workshops, use child labour.
(US
Dept of Labor, Sweat and Toil of Children, 1994, cited by the Congress
on the Rights of the Child, Casablanca, May 25-27, 1994)
SPECIFIC
SECTORS
* Carpet Industry - It is estimated that 5,000 to 10,000 children between
the ages of 8 and 14 work in the artisan carpet industry and between 2,000
and 3,000 work in the export-oriented carpet industry. (US
Dept of Labor, Sweat and Toil of Children, 1994, citing` the L'Union Marocaine
du Travail(UMT) in a letter to International Child Labour Study, 22 June
1994)
* Garment Manufacturing
- Children are employed in the sub-contracting units of the garment industry.
(US
Dept of Labor, Sweat and Toil of Children, 1994, citing L'Union Marocaine
du Travail (UMT) in a letter to International Child Labour Study, 22 June
1994)
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