| Total
Child Labour |
NATIONAL STATISTICS
* Statistics shows
that of about 7 million children between 5-14 years old working in
Nepal, about 3 million are found to be regularly working and 1.7 million
children are found to be economically active. ("Nepal,
ILO Sign Agreement to Eliminate Child Labor", Xinhua: Comtex, 8/9/2000)
* For the year 2000, the
ILO projects that there will be 1,277,000 economically active children,
553,000 girls and 724,000 boys between the ages of 10-14, representing
42.07% of this age group.
(ILO, International Labour Office - Bureau of Statistics, Economically Active Population 1950-2010, STAT Working Paper, ILO 1997)
* Almost two fifths children
of school-going age are economically active. (ILO-IPEC,
Child Bonded Labour: Nepal, September 1999)
* The number of child
labourers is estimated at around 2,060,000 where about, 94.7% are
involved in agriculture and household work and the remaining 5% are
engaged in service and manufacturing industries. For every 100 children
in the 6-14 years age group, 4-5 are engaged in paid work. (ILO-IPEC,
Country Paper: Nepal, September 1999)
* CWCD in 1998
found that 71% of rural, 52% of urban and 63% of Kamaiya children
are economically active. (National
Plan of Action Against Child Bonded Labour, Nepal)
* According to the ILO-sponsored
national survey, of the 6.2 million children between the ages of 5-14
years, 2,596,000 are child workers, which forms 41.7% of this age
group. (US
Dept of Labor, Sweat and Toil of Children: Efforts to Eliminate Child
Labour, 1998)
* Of 2.59 million
working children, 278,000 or 4.5% of all Nepali children are in paid
work and 1.38 million or 22.2% of all children are in unpaid work.
(Central
Department of Population Studies of Tribhuvan University and ILO-IPEC,
Child Labour Situation in Nepal, October 1998)
* Of all children
aged 10-14 years, about 40.8% are economically active. The corresponding
figure for the 5-9 age group is 12.5%. (Central
Department of Population Studies and ILO-IPEC, Child Labour Situation
in Nepal, October 1998)
* About 1.7 million
children in Nepal are estimated to be involved in economic activities.
(Central
Department of Population Studies and ILO-IPEC, Child Labour Situation
in Nepal, October 1998)
* About 70% of
the economically active children are between 10-14 years old. (Central
Department of Population Studies and ILO-IPEC, Child Labour Situation
in Nepal, October 1998)
* About 95% (1.58
million) of the economically active children in rural areas perform
agriculture related work, in comparison to 78.5% in urban areas. Some
1.6% (27,000) of economically active children work as service workers.
5.3% (87,000) are involved in non-agricultural work. 1.6% (26,000)
are in construction, transportation and communication. Children who
work as general technical workers constitute 0.8% (14,000). Another
0.8% work as production workers and 0.4% as sales workers.
(Central
Department of Population Studies and ILO-IPEC, Child Labour Situation
in Nepal, October 1998)
* According to Tribhuvan
University estimates there were 261,000 children working for wages
in Nepal in 1997. (ILO-IPEC,
Child Bonded Labour: Nepal, September 1999)
* According to
recent statistics availed by CBS (1996), of total wage earners in
the country, about 4% belong to the 10-14 age group. (National
Plan of Action Against Child Bonded Labour, Nepal)
* Of Nepal's 2,596,000
working children between the ages of 5-14 years, 2,407,000 are non-migrant
and 162,000 are migrant. (ILO-SIMPOC,
Migration of Working Children in Nepal, December 1997, citing Report
from Migration and Employment Survey, 1995-1996)
* It is estimated that
migrant child labourers, those who moved due to economic reasons and
those who moved due to non-economic reasons but were working in economic
activities before and after migration, number about 120,000, of which
68,000 were boys and 51,000 girls. Of the total children aged 5-17
years, migrant child labourers constituted 1.58%. The corresponding
proportions for male and female are 1.77 and 1.39% respectively. (ILO-SIMPOC,
Migration of Working Children in Nepal, December 1997, citing Report
from Migration and Employment Survey, 1995-1996)
* Rural areas overwhelmingly
dominate urban areas in terms of migrations of child labourers who
move for economic reasons. Of the 80,000 migrant child labourers who
migrated for economic reasons, 76,000 (1.12% of all children) moved
from rural areas and 3,000 (0.048% of all children) moved from urban
areas. (ILO-SIMPOC,
Migration of Working Children in Nepal, December 1997, citing Report
from Migration and Employment Survey, 1995-1996)
* In 1995, there
were 1,200,000 economically active children, 521,000 girls and 678,000
boys between the ages of 10-14, representing 45.21% of this age group.
(ILO, International Labour Office - Bureau of Statistics, Economically Active Population 1950-2010, STAT Working Paper, ILO 1997)
*
Based on the 1991 Census, there were 531,835 economically active
children between 10-14 years of age, or 22.85% of the total age
group. (ILO-IPEC, Country Report: Nepal, October
1998, citing the 1991 Census)
LOCAL
STATISTICS
*
According to a study by CWIN, about 62,000 children are working in urban
areas among whom 20,000 are in Kathmandu Valley. 50% of these child workers
are below 14 years. (ILO-IPEC,
Country Paper: Nepal, September 1999)
GENERAL
NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS
* Up to half of all children
work, mostly in agriculture. (EI, EI Barometer on Human and Trade Union Rights in the Education Sector, 1998)
* 473,492 children
between 10-14 years working in the agricultural sector. (ILO-IPEC,
Trafficking in Children and their Exploitation in Prostitution in
Nepal)
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Slavery |
NATIONAL STATISTICS
* The number of
bonded children is estimated as 33,000.
(ILO-IPEC,
Child Bonded Labour: Nepal, September 1999)
* 40,000 children
are estimated to be in debt-bondage.
(ILO-IPEC, Country Report: Nepal, October
1998, citing CWIN)
* 40,000 Nepalese
girls under 16 in Indian brothels are forced into prostitution.
(Penelope
Saunders, "Sexual Trafficking and Forced Prostitution of Children",
29 October 1998)
*
More than 9,000 girls are trafficked each year from Nepal and Bangladesh
into bondage in India and Pakistan, often with the acquiescence
or cooperation of state officials.
(CATW
Fact Book, citing Amnesty International press release, 22 April
1998)
* It is estimated
that at least 1 million children in Nepal are working as child labourers
in difficult circumstances, often as slaves in carpet factories, brick
kilns, domestic service, agriculture, plantation, construction, transportation,
stone quarry, mines and as migrant workers.
(CWIN,
Gauri Pradhan, State of the Rights of the Child in Nepal, 1998)
* Available data
suggests that approximately 7,000 girls between 10 -18 are lured or
abducted into prostitution each year. In many cases, parents or relatives
sell young girls into sexual slavery.
(EI, EI Barometer on Human and Trade Union Rights in the Education Sector, 1998)
*
Among the Kamaiya families the number of children working under
the system is reported to be about 13,000.
(National
Plan of Action Against Child Bonded Labour, Nepal)
GENERAL
NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS
* Children are
bound to work in brick kilns, carpet or garment factories.
(ILO-IPEC, Country Paper: Nepal, September
1999)
*
The system of bonded labour (Kamaiya) is predominant in four districts
of western Nepal. (ILO-IPEC,
Country Paper: Nepal, September 1999)
*
The Kamaiya system has recently been abolished.
(GMIS, 1 November 2000)
* Forced child
labour exists in many sectors of the economy.
(EI, EI Barometer on Human and Trade Union Rights in the Education Sector, 1998)
* Children employed
in carpet factories in India are believed to be working under slave
like conditions. Nepalese children who have experience in weaving
Nepalese carpets are in demand in India.
(CWA,
Child Workers in Nepal (CWIN), "Nepal-India Cross Border Child
Labour Migration", Child Workers in Asia, Vol. 13, Nos. 2 &
3, April - September 1997)
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Trafficking |
NATIONAL STATISTICS
* The study
findings estimated that 12,000 children are trafficked every year
from Nepal. (ILO-IPEC,
Bal Kumar KC et all, Nepal, Trafficking in Girls with Special Reference
to Prostitution: A Rapid Assessment, Geneva, November 2001)
* The trafficking
of children is a considerable problem. While accurate numbers are
not available, it is estimated that 5000-7000 Nepalese girls are
annually trafficked out of Nepal to India, and increasingly, to
the Gulf States for prostitution purposes.(ECPAT,
CSEC Database, http://www.ecpat.net/eng/ecpat_inter/projects/monitoring/online_database/index.asp)
* As an illustration, it is believed that 200,000 of the prostitutes
in India are Nepalese. 20% are thought to be under 16. (ECPAT,
CSEC Database, http://www.ecpat.net/eng/ecpat_inter/projects/monitoring/online_database/index.asp)
* A survey by the Central Social
Welfare Board indicated that the population of Nepalese women and child victims
of commercial sexual exploitation in Indian brothels would be between 70,000 to
100,000 of which 30% were below 18. (ILO-IPEC,
Country Report: Nepal, October 1998)
* The number of Nepalese girls
and women engaged in prostitution in Calcutta exceeds 27,000, in Delhi it is more
than 21,000, in Gorakhpur it is 4,700 and in Banaras it is 3,480.
(ILO-IPEC, Country Report: Nepal, October 1998)
* In Bombay, India, at least
half of the city's 100,000 prostitutes are believed to be Nepalese girls.
(ILO-IPEC, Country Report: Nepal, October 1998)
* More than 9,000 girls are
trafficked each year from Nepal and Bangladesh into bondage in India and Pakistan,
often with the acquiescence or cooperation of state officials.
(CATW
Fact Book, citing Amnesty International press release, 22 April 1998)
*
Half of 100,000 girl prostitutes between 10-14 in Bombay are from
Nepal and are kept in brothels against their will.
(Penelope Saunders, "Sexual Trafficking
and Forced Prostitution of Children", 29 October 1998)
*
CWIN's studies have revealed that Nepalese children are involved
in different labour sectors in India. Most prominent is the carpet
industry. CWIN estimates that there are 5,000-7,000 children working
in Bhadohi and Mirzapur in Benaras district bordering Nepal.
(CWA,
Child Workers in Nepal (CWIN), "Nepal-India Cross Border Child
Labour Migration", Child Workers in Asia, Vol. 13, Nos. 2 &
3, April - September 1997)
* 15,000 Nepalese women and 19,000 children are kidnapped, lured,
trafficked and sold into different cities of India. (Lawyers
for Human Rights and Legal Action, The Flesh Trade Report, 1995-1996)
* An
estimated 40,000 to 45,000 of these girls are in Bombay brothels
and also nearly an equal number of them are in Calcutta.
(Lawyers for Human Rights and Legal
Action, The Flesh Trade Report, 1995-1996)
*
In Calcutta, in various studies conducted by the All India Institute
of Hygiene and Public Health in 1993 estimate that 20% of the 5,000
sex workers in the Sonagachi red light area are Nepalese.
(Human
Rights Watch/Asia, Rape and Profit, June 1995)
ADULT
STATISTICS
* 20%-30% of commercial
sex workers in India have been trafficked from Nepal.
(World
Vision, David Westwood, Child Trafficking in Asia, 1998)
* 2.5% of prostitutes
in India are Nepalese. (CATW
Fact Book, citing "Devadasi System Continues to Legitimise Prostitution:
The Devadasi Tradition and Prostitution", Times of India, 4 December
1997)
* Approximately
50,000, or half of the women in prostitution in Bombay, are trafficked
from Nepal. (CATW
Fact Book, citing Robert I. Freidman, "India's Shame: Sexual Slavery
and Political Corruption Are Leading to an AIDS Catastrophe", The
Nation, 8 April 1996)
*
160,000 Nepalese women are held in India's brothels.
(CATW
Fact Book, citing SANLAAP India, Indrani Sinha, "Paper on Globalization
& Human Rights")
*
5,000 Nepalese women are trafficked into India yearly. There are
now 100,000 Nepalese women in India in prostitution.
(CATW-Asia
Pacific, Trafficking in Women and Prostitution in the Asia Pacific,
1996)
GENERAL
NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS
* Nepal is a
source country for internationally trafficked women and children.
(US Dept. of State, Trafficking in Persons Report, July 12, 2001)
* Poor, uneducated young women from Nepal's rural regions are trafficked
to India to work as prostitutes and for bonded labour. Nepalese
citizens also are trafficked to Hong Kong, Thailand, and countries
in the Middle East. Government officials suspect that organised
crime groups and "marriage brokers" are the primary traffickers
in Nepal and state that parents and other relatives of trafficking
victims are sometimes complicit. (US
Dept. of State, Trafficking in Persons Report, July 12, 2001)
*
Nepalese girls as young as 11 years are trafficked into India to work as
prostitutes.(Will Dunham, "U.S. grapples with 'modern-day
slavery'", 1 September 2000, reprinted in Stop Trafficking Archive, September
2000)
* Nepalese, Bangladeshi
and Pakistani women are trafficked to India, and through India they
are trafficked to Eastern Europe and Saudi Arabia.
(CATW
Fact Book, citing Meena Oudel, Oxfam Nepal, 18 March 1998)
* Notorious in
their own right for appalling working conditions, Nepalese carpet
factories, where 50% of the workers are estimated to be children,
are common sites of sexual exploitation by employers as well as recruitment
centres for Indian brothels. (UNICEF,
State of the World's Children, 1997)
* The trafficking
of girls from Nepal into India for the purpose of prostitution is
probably the busiest 'slave traffic' of its kind anywhere in the world.
(CATW
Fact Book, citing Tim McGirk, "Nepal's Lost Daughters", 27 January
1997)
* Hong Kong is
the second biggest market for trafficked Nepalese women.
(CATW-Asia
Pacific, Trafficking in Women and Prostitution in the Asia Pacific,
1996)
* The problem of
sale and trafficking of children, especially girls is rampant.
(UN
CRC, Concluding observations on Nepal, 1996)
* In cross-border
trafficking, India is a sending, receiving and transit nation. Receiving
children from Bangladesh and Nepal and sending women and children
to Middle Eastern nations is a daily occurrence. (CATW
Fact Book, citing SANLAAP India, Indrani Sinha, "Paper on Globalisation
and Human Rights")
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| Child
Prostitution and
Pornography |
NATIONAL
STATISTICS
* In Nepal,
between 5,000 and 7,000 girls are believed to be trafficked every
year across the border to neighbouring countries. (UNICEF,
Progress of Nations 2000, New York, 2000)
* About 200,000
girls are involved in prostitution. Among them, 25,000 are living
in Kathmandu and the rest are supposed to be living in big cities
of India. (ILO-IPEC,
Country Paper: Nepal, September 1999)
*
A survey by the Central Social Welfare Board indicated that the population
of Nepalese women and child victims of commercial sexual exploitation
in Indian brothels would be between 70,000 to 100,000 of which 30%
were below 18 years. (ILO-IPEC,
Country Report: Nepal, October 1998)
*
Every year around 10,000 Nepalese girls, most between the age of nine
and 16, are sold to brothels in India.
(CATW
Fact Book, citing Tim McGirk, "Nepal's Lost Daughters", 27 January
1997)
*
20% of 25,000 commercial sex workers are below 16 years.
(ILO, Fighting Child Labour at National
Level: Action in Nepal, citing UNICEF)
LOCAL
STATISTICS
*
Half of 100,000 girl prostitutes between 10-14 in Bombay are from
Nepal and are kept in brothels against their will.
(Penelope Saunders, "Sexual Trafficking
and Forced Prostitution of Children", 29 October 1998)
*
In Bombay, India, at least half of the city's 100,000 prostitutes are believed
to be Nepalese girls. (ILO-IPEC,
Country Report: Nepal, October 1998)
* According to
UNICEF there are 1,000 children in the sex trade in Kathmandu.
(ILO-IPEC, Country Report: Nepal, October
1998)
* A survey done
in Kathmandu on 52 commercial sex workers by the Department of Research
and Planning suggests that out of the total commercial sex workers
surveyed, 13% were between 13-17 years.
(ILO-IPEC, Country Report: Nepal, October
1998)
* The number of
Nepalese girls and women engaged in prostitution in Calcutta exceeds
27,000, in Delhi it is more than 21,000, in Gorakhpur it is 4,700
and in Banaras it is 3,480. (ILO-IPEC,
Country Report: Nepal, October 1998)
* Thousands of
girls are trafficked to urban areas to practice prostitution.
(Lawyers for Human Rights and Legal
Action, The Flesh Trade Report, 1995-1996)
*
About 45,000 Nepalese girls are in the brothels of Bombay and 40,000
in Calcutta. (CATW
Fact Book, citing UBINIG, Trafficking in Women and Children: The
Cases of Bangladesh, 1995, citing women's groups in Nepal)
ADULT
STATISTICS
*
20%-30% of commercial sex workers in India have been trafficked
from Nepal. (World
Vision, David Westwood, Child Trafficking in Asia, 1998)
*
2.5% of prostitutes in India are Nepalese.
(CATW
Fact Book, citing "Devadasi System Continues to Legitimise Prostitution:
The Devadasi Tradition and Prostitution", Times of India, 4 December
1997)
* 7,000 Nepalese
women and girls are trafficked for prostitution to the Asia Pacific
area. (CATW
Fact Book, citing CATW-Asia Pacific and Philippine Women's Groups,
4th International Congress on AIDS in the Asia Pacific, 29 October
1997)
* Approximately
50,000, or half of the women in prostitution in Bombay, are trafficked
from Nepal. (CATW
Fact Book, citing Robert I. Freidman, "India's Shame: Sexual Slavery
and Political Corruption Are Leading to an AIDS Catastrophe", The
Nation, 8 April 1996)
* 5,000 Nepalese
women are trafficked into India yearly. There are now 100,000 Nepalese
women in India in prostitution. (CATW-Asia
Pacific, Trafficking in Women and Prostitution in the Asia Pacific,
1996)
* In Calcutta,
various studies conducted by the All India Institute of Hygiene and
Public Health in 1993 estimate that 20% of the 5,000 sex workers in
the Sonagachi red-light area are Nepalese.
(Human
Rights Watch/Asia, Rape and Profit, June 1995)
*
160,000 Nepalese women are held in India's brothels. (CATW
Fact Book, citing SANLAAP India, Indrani Sinha, "Paper on Globalization
& Human Rights")
GENERAL
NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS
* The NGO CWIN
alleges that 2000 brothels exist in Nepal and a high percentage
of the prostitutes working were children. (ECPAT,
CSEC Database, http://www.ecpat.net/eng/ecpat_inter/projects/monitoring/online_database/index.asp)
* Nepal is a source country for internationally
trafficked women and children. (US
Dept. of State, Trafficking in Persons Report, July 12, 2001)
* Poor, uneducated young women from Nepal's rural regions are trafficked
to India to work as prostitutes and for bonded labour. Nepalese
citizens also are trafficked to Hong Kong, Thailand, and countries
in the Middle East. Government officials suspect that organised
crime groups and "marriage brokers" are the primary traffickers
in Nepal and state that parents and other relatives of trafficking
victims are sometimes complicit. (US
Dept. of State, Trafficking in Persons Report, July 12, 2001)
* Nepalese girls
as young as 11 years are trafficked into India to work as prostitutes.
(Will Dunham, "U.S. grapples with
'modern-day slavery'", 1 September 2000, reprinted in Stop Trafficking
Archive, September 2000)
* Notorious in
their own right for appalling working conditions, Nepalese carpet
factories, where 50% of the workers are estimated to be children,
are common sites of sexual exploitation by employers, as well as
recruitment centres for Indian brothels.
(UNICEF,
State of the World's Children, 1997)
*
The trafficking of girls from Nepal into India for the purpose of
prostitution is probably the busiest 'slave traffic' of its kind
anywhere in the world. (CATW
Fact Book, citing Tim McGirk, "Nepal's Lost Daughters", 27 January
1997)
* The average
age at which the Nepalese girls are recruited is significantly lower
than it was ten years ago, dropping from 14 to 16 years in the 1990s
to 10 to 14 years in 1994. (Human
Rights Watch/Asia, Rape and Profit, June 1995)
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| Children
in Crime |
GENERAL JUVENILE
CRIME STATISTICS
* In 1998, there
were 18 reported cases of juvenile crime, representing 0.92% of all
criminal cases. The specific offences were: 5 cases of murder (0.96%
of all murders), 11 cases of all types of theft (2.00% of all cases),
5 cases of fraud (5.44% of all cases), 0 cases of drug offences (0.13%
of all cases)
(INTERPOL,
International Crime Statistics for 1998, citing National Statistics)
*
2.7 million children were involved in petty crimes.
(CWIN,
State of the Right of the Child in Nepal, 1996)
GENERAL NOTES
AND OBSERVATIONS
* Mostly street children
are used for such activities as drug trafficking and smuggling.
(ILO-IPEC,
Country Paper: Nepal, September 1999)
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| Child
Soldiers |
RECRUITMENT
LAWS AND REGULATIONS
* A person must be at
least 18 years old to be recruited into the army. (CSUCS,
Asia Report, July 2000, citing Report of Nepal to the UN CRC, 10 May 1995)
*
The 1971 Young Boys' Recruitment and Conditions of Service Rules state
that young boys must be between 15 and 18 years old to be recruited. The
government explained that this means that "young Nepalese men could enlist
from the age of 15 years in order to follow military training, but nobody
under 18 years of age could be recruited into the army". (CSUCS,
Asia Report, July 2000, citing UN CRC, Consideration of Report of Nepal,
24 June 1996)
OPPOSITION
GROUP STATISTICS
*
In August 2000, Amnesty International warned of a rising tide of recruitment
of children by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)/United People's Front
. At least 30 children had reportedly been abducted in June and July by
members of the armed group. Although it had not been confirmed whether
these children were abducted to be trained and deployed as combatants.
(CSUCS,
Asia Report, July 2000, citing Amnesty International, 9 August 2000)
NOTES ON OPPOSITION GROUPS
*
Children as young as 14 have been recruited, sometimes forcibly, by the
underground Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist). The CPN (Maoist) leadership
made a commitment not to recruit children in August 2000. (CSUCS,
Global Report on Child Soldiers - 2001)
*
Press articles have likewise asserted that the Maoists are using
"school and college students and even young children in their
guerrilla activities." The Himalaya Times claimed the Maoists
are recruiting children between 14 and 18 years of age who are then
sent out in groups of six or seven on guerrilla operations. (CSUCS,
Global Report on Child Soldiers - 2001 citing "Reports from
the Battlefield", The Worker, No. 4, Publications Department
Central Committee Communist Party of Nepal, 5/98, http://www.maoism.org)
* On 19 March 1999,
it was reported that "seven Maoists were killed in an encounter with
the police at Ankot village of Kavre district. Six of them have been found
to be students and young people. Four of them were girls." Among these
"young people" was a 17-year-old and a 14 year-old. Two other
young people, aged 15 and 16, were killed in the operation. (CSUCS,
Global Report on Child Soldiers - 2001)
* In October 2000,
the Kathmandu Post reported the surrender of a 14-year-old Maoist worker
to the district administration after 6 months service with the CPN. (CSUCS,
Global Report on Child Soldiers - 2001)
* In Nepal, evidence
mounted that children as young as fourteen, including girls, were recruited
by members of the armed opposition group, the Communist Party of Nepal
(CPN) (Maoist). (HRW,
World Report 2001)
*
The recruitment of children is not yet a widespread problem, but the 'symptoms'
are present. Most children taking part in the armed conflict are believed
to be between 14 and 18 years of age, but the use of even younger children
cannot be ruled out. Children are also reportedly used as messengers, sentries
and spies, and involved in cultural or propaganda activities. The Maoists
are said to have formed "a youth wing to reach out to school children."
(CSUCS,
Asia Report, July 2000)
* In Nepal, the Kathmandu
Post reported on the surrender of a 14-year-old Maoist worker Pushpa to
the district administration. She had reportedly been recruited about six
months ago . Following appeals by Amnesty International, the Coalition and
Nepal NGOs, the CPN (Maoist) leadership in
August publicly denied the recruitment of children and said it would turn
away volunteers. (CSUCS, Update 6, 19 October
2000)
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| Domestic
Child Servants |
NATIONAL
STATISTICS
* 31,000 children
and adolescents work as domestic servants.
(US
Dept of Labor, Sweat and Toil of Children: Efforts to Eliminate Child
Labour, 1998, citing Sinaga Women and Child Labour Resource Centre,
"Domestic Child Workers", July 1997)
* Some 62,000 urban
domestics are under the age of 14. (UNICEF
Innocenti Digest on Child Domestic Work, May 1999, citing CWIN,
Urban child domestic labour in Nepal, 1995)
*
On the basis of a survey, it can be estimated that at least, 10,600
children are working as domestics in Kathmandu, Bhaktapur and Lalitpur
in Kathmandu valley and over 31,000 are in the 33 municipalities
of Nepal. (CWA,
Child Workers in Nepal (CWIN), "Domestic Child Workers in the
Kathmandu Valley", Child Workers in Asia, Vol. 10, No. 1, January
- March 1994)
LOCAL
STATISTICS
*
In Pokhara, 5.5 percent, in Butwal, 5.6 percent and in Siddharthanagar,
8.1 perxcent of households are reported to employ domestic child
labourers. (ILO-IPEC,
Shiv Sharma et all, Nepal, Situation of Domestic Child Labourers
in Kathmandu: A Rapid Assessment, Geneva, November 2001)
*
In the Kathmandu Valley, more than half of the domestic workers
were boys. (UNICEF
Innocent Digest on Child Domestic Work, May 1999, citing CWIN,
Urban child domestic labour in Nepal, 1995)
GENERAL
NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS
* A large number
of children are involved in child labour, including in the informal
sector, particularly as domestic servants, in agriculture and in
the family context. (UN
CRC, Concluding observations on Nepal, 1996)
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Other
Hazardous
Child Labour |
ASSORTED NOTES
*
It is estimated that at least 1 million children in Nepal are working
as child labourers in difficult circumstances, often as slaves in
carpet factories, brick kilns, domestic service, agriculture, plantation,
construction, transportation, stone quarry, mines and as migrant
workers. (CWIN,
Gauri Pradhan, State of the Rights of the Child in Nepal, 1998)
GENERAL
NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS
* Research has
shown that child labour exists in large numbers in labour-intensive
industries like carpet, stone and brick crushing, candle making, bidi
making and furniture industries. (ILO-IPEC,
Country Paper: Nepal, September 1999)
* Nepalese children
are employed in India in wood-cutting and construction work, specially
in cold places such as Shimla and Kashmir.
(CWA,
Child Workers in Nepal (CWIN), "Nepal-India
Cross Border Child Labour Migration", Child Workers in Asia,
Vol. 13, Nos. 2 & 3, April - September 1997)
*
The Indian catering industry is another sector which absorbs a large
number of Nepalese migrant child labourers. Children also are engaged
in shoe shining, factory work, portering or working as coolies in
the railway stations. Some children are also employed to work in
circuses and magic shows. (CWA,
Child Workers in Nepal (CWIN), "Nepal-India Cross Border Child
Labour Migration", Child Workers in Asia, Vol. 13, Nos. 2 &
3, April - September 1997)
SPECIFIC
SECTORS
*
Wool Factory - According to a February 1999 press report, police
found 14 boys aged 15 to 17 years who were employed forcibly in
a wool factory in Jorpati. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2000, February 2001)
*
Brick Kilns - In the brick factories of Kathmandu alone 2,500 children
between 9-14 year were working. (ILO-IPEC,
Country Report: Nepal, October 1998)
* Carpet Industry
- According to a study by BISCON about 1.62% of child labour exists
in carpet industries. (ILO-IPEC,
Country Paper: Nepal, September 1999)
* Carpet Industry
- Child rights groups estimate that 23,000 children work in carpet
industry which amounts to one third of the industry's total work force.
The numbers are believed to have come down to 6,000 following international
campaign against child labour. (US
Dept of State, Human Rights Report, 1998)
* Carpet Industry
- CWIN's studies have revealed that Nepalese children are involved
in different labour sectors in India. Most prominent is the carpet
industry. CWIN estimates that there are 5,000-7,000 children working
in Bhadohi and Mirzapur in Benaras District bordering Nepal.
(CWA,
Child Workers in Nepal (CWIN), "Nepal-India Cross Border Child
Labour Migration", Child Workers in Asia, Vol. 13, Nos. 2 &
3, April - September 1997)
*
Carpet Industry - The estimated number of child labourers in the
carpet industry is 3,000. (US
Dept of Labor, Sweat and Toil of Children: Consumer Labels and Child
Labor, 1997, citing AAFLI, Survey of Child Workers In Nepal Carpet
Factories, 1996)
*
Carpet
Industry
2,891 children are in the carpet industry.
(ILO-IPEC, Country Report: Nepal,
October 1998, citing AAFLI, 1996)
* Carpet Industry
- 200,000 children are working in the carpet industry.
(US
Dept of Labor, Sweat and Toil of Children: Agricultural Imports &
Forced and Bonded Child Labour, 1995)
* Carpet Industry
- The official estimate states the percentage of child workers in
the carpet industry is 9%. (US
Dept of Labor, Sweat and Toil of Children, 1994, citing Nepal Ministry
of Labour, "A Glimpse of Carpet Industries in Kathmandu Valley", July
1993)
* Carpet Industry
- In 1992, based on a sample survey, Child Workers in Nepal(CWIN)
estimated the number of children working in carpet factories of
Kathmandu Valley as 150,000 or 50% of the total work force.
(CWA,
Child Workers In Nepal (CWIN), "Carpet Children in Nepal",
Child Workers in Asia, Vol. 9 No. 2, April - June 1993)
*
Carpet Industry - The percentage of child workers in the carpet
industry is estimated as 50%.
(US
Dept of Labor, Sweat and Toil of Children, 1994, citing CWIN, "Carpet
Factory: A Source of Foreign Currency and the Misery of our Children",
1992)
Portering
- The total number of child porters working in Nepal is estimated
at 46,029, based on the results of this study. (ILO-IPEC,
Bal Kumar KC et all, Nepal, Situation of Child Porters: A Rapid
Assessment, Geneva, November 2001)
* Portering
- There are 550 child porters in Kathmandu.
(ILO-IPEC
and Foundation For Economic And Social Change, Annotated Bibliography
on Child Labour in Nepal, citing Concern for Children and Environment,
Nepal, Burden on Childhood, 1997)
* Portering - In
the Kathmandu Valley, portering is currently the major form of employment
for children. (CWA,
Bijaya Sainju, Concern for Children and Environment - Nepal, "Child
Porters in Kathmandu", Child Workers in Asia, Vol. 10, No. 3,
July - September 1994)
* Restaurants and
Hotels - 7,665 children work in hotels and restaurants.
(ILO-IPEC, Country Report: Nepal, October
1998)
* Scavenging
- The findings are based on the interviews of 300 children ages
5-17 years working currently as ragpickers in six major municipalities.
Based on respondents' and key informants' assessment, the total
number of child ragpickers was estimated to be 2,969 for the sample
sites and 3,965 overall for urban centers in Nepal, with the highest
concentration in the Kathmandu Valley and Dharan. (ILO-IPEC,
Bal Kumar KC et all, Nepal, Situation of Child Porters: A Rapid
Assessment, Geneva, November 2001)
*
Scavenging - An estimated 1,500 children are engaged as rag-pickers.
(ILO-IPEC, Country Report: Nepal,
October 1998)
* Street Children
- Street Children earn their living by selling newspaper, cleaning
garbage and even begging. (ILO-IPEC,
Country Paper: Nepal, September 1999)
* Street Children
- In Nepal, it is estimated that there are 5,000 children who have
landed on the streets of cities due to various socio-economic and
socio-psychological reasons and family violence. In the year 1997,
CWIN recorded 330 street children in Kathmandu, similarly it recorded
66 street children in Pokhra, 107 in Menayanghat, 103 in Dharan and
31 boys in Patan and 45 in Biratnagar. Population of street children
in Kathmandu was 1,000 in 1992. (CWIN,
Gauri Pradhan, State of the Rights of the Child in Nepal, 1998)
* Tempo Helpers
- According to the CWIN report 65% of the children working as tempo
helpers are below the age of 14 and the remaining 35% belong to
the age group of 14-18 years. (CWIN,
Gauri Pradhan, State of the Rights of the Child in Nepal, 1998)
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