| 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, 45900 children between 15-19 years were economically active.
(ILO, Yearbook of Labour Statistics, 2001)
*
38,600 teenagers between 15-19 years 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 incidence of children
taking up permanent employment is low, and abuses are almost non-existent.
(US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
* The legal minimum
age for employment is 12 years. (US
Dept of State, Human Rights Report, 1998)
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| Child
Slavery |
GENERAL NOTES AND
OBSERVATIONS
* The government
prohibits forced and bonded labour by children and enforces this
provision effectively. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
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| Child
Trafficking |
GENERAL NOTES
AND OBSERVATIONS
*
There is evidence that the country is a destination for trafficking
in women for the purpose of prostitution, primarily from Thailand
and Malaysia. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2000, February 2001)
*
Singapore is a destination country for women who are trafficked
for sexual exploitation, principally from India but also from Thailand,
China, Sri Lanka, and Indonesia. (US
Dept. of State, Trafficking in Persons Report, July 12, 2001)
*
Indian, Bangladeshi, and Filipino men and women often face coercive
employment situations in indentured servitude due to contracts entered
into abroad. (US
Dept. of State, Trafficking in Persons Report, July 12, 2001)
*
Thousands of girls from China's southern part are trafficked into
Thailand's sex industry; some go on to Malaysia or Singapore.
(CATW Fact Book, citing Supalak Ganjanakhundee,
"Migrant workers booming as Asian economy declines", Kyodo News,
23 September 1998)
* Korea ranks 7th
in terms of destination of deployed overseas Filipinos workers, closely
following Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore and Japan. Illegal recruitment
allegedly for work abroad, have historically been exploited to bring
women into prostitution or other forms of sexual exploitation in foreign
lands. (CATW-Asia
Pacific, Jean Enriquez, "Filipinos in Prostitution around U.S. Military
Bases in Korea")
* Malaysia is
a receiving country for trafficked women from Indonesia, the Philippines,
Thailand, China, India, Taiwan, Singapore, Burma, Vietnam, Sri Lanka
and Laos. (CATW-Asia
Pacific, Trafficking in Women and Prostitution in the Asia Pacific,
1996)
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| Child
Prostitution and
Pornography |
GENERAL
NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS
* There is evidence
that the country is a destination for trafficking in women for the
purpose of prostitution, primarily from Thailand and Malaysia. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2000, February 2001)
* Thousands of girls
from China's southern part are trafficked into Thailand's sex industry;
some go on to Malaysia or Singapore. (CATW
Fact Book, citing Supalak Ganjanakhundee, "Migrant workers booming as Asian
economy declines", Kyodo News, 23 September 1998)
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| Children
in Crime |
GENERAL JUVENILE
CRIME STATISTICS
* 1.2% of total
prisoners are juveniles. (UNDP,
Human Development Report, 1999)
* In 1998 there
were 5,710 reported cases of juvenile crime, representing 14.90%
of all criminal cases. The specific offences were: 13 cases of serious
assault (3.10% of all cases), 6,803 cases of all types of theft
(22.90% of all cases), 492 cases of aggravated theft (18.20% of
all cases), 199 cases of robbery and violent theft (19.60% of all
cases), 259 cases of breaking and entering (15.40% of all cases),
27 cases of theft of motor cars (6.50% of all cases), 6,247 cases
of other theft (23.50% of all cases), 51 cases of fraud (2.30% of
all cases).
(INTERPOL, International Crime Statistics
for 1998, citing National
Statistics)
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| Child
Soldiers |
GOVERNMENT FORCE
STATISTICS
*
The average number of servicemen between 16½ years and 18 years of age
enlisted each year for both National Service and Regular Service in the
last two years is about 300, which form less than 2% of the total enlisted
servicemen. (CSUCS,
Asia Report, July 2000, citing Mission of Singapore to the UN, 25 February
2000)
RECRUITMENT
LAWS AND REGULATIONS
*
The law of the country specifies that conscripts must normally be
at least 18 years of age, though in an emergency this can be reduced
to 16.5 years. Although there is no legal minimum age for volunteers,
according to the authorities, 'administratively' a person must be
over 16.5 years of age in order to enlist. (CSUCS,
Rory Mungoven, e-mail to GMIS, 18 October 2000)
*
The Singapore Armed Forces (Volunteers) Regulations allows a person "who
is not less than 16 years and 6 months of age" to be eligible for enlistment
as a volunteer under the "Voluntary Early Enlistment Scheme" (VEES).
(CSUCS,
Asia Report, July 2000, citing Mission of Singapore to the UN, 25 February
2000)
NOTES
ON GOVERNMENT FORCES
* There are
under-18s in government armed forces as voluntary recruits are accepted
from the age of 16. (CSUCS,
Global Report on Child Soldiers - 2001)
* According to official figures, the average number
of servicemen between 16.5 years and 18 years of age enlisted each
year for both National Service and Regular Service in the last two
years is about 300. (CSUCS,
Global Report on Child Soldiers - 2001)
* Singapore does not
have "under-aged soldiers, i.e. soldiers below the minimum age of 15 years
as stipulated in the Convention on the Rights of the Child." (CSUCS,
Asia Report, July 2000, citing Mission of Singapore to the UN, 25 February
2000)
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| Domestic
Child Servants |
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Other
Hazardous
Child Labour |
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