| Total
Child Labour |
NATIONAL STATISTICS
* For the year 2000, the ILO projects that
there will be 14,000 economically active children, 6,000 girls and
8,000 boys between the ages of 10-14, representing 12.25% of this
age group.
(ILO, International Labour Office - Bureau of Statistics, Economically Active Population 1950-2010, STAT Working Paper, ILO 1997)
*
In 1995, there were 15,000 economically active children, 6,000 girls
and 9,000 boys between the ages of 10-14, representing 13.73% 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
* Employment of children
in the formal sector is not customary. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
* Children below the
minimum age are frequently employed in the agricultural sector, particularly
in the eastern cotton-growing region. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
* Children also are
employed as herd boys in rural areas. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
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| Child
Slavery |
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| Child
Trafficking |
GENERAL
NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS
* The law does not
prohibit trafficking in persons, although there are laws prohibiting procurement,
including by coercion and within and across borders, for the purposes of
prostitution, and, unlike in the previous year, there were no reports that
women and children were trafficked for sexual exploitation during the year.
(US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2000, February 2001)
* The law does not
prohibit trafficking in persons, and, although not well-documented, there
were reports from Mozambique that persons, specifically women and children,
were trafficked to Swaziland. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
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| Child
Prostitution and
Pornography |
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| Children
in Crime |
GENERAL JUVENILE
CRIME STATISTICS
* 11.6% of total
prisoners are juveniles. (UNDP,
Human Development Report, 1999)
* In 1998 there
were 9,512 reported cases of juvenile crime, representing 25.45%
of all criminal cases. The specific offences were: 17 cases of murder
(10.51% of all murders), 626 cases of serious assault
(14.10% of all cases), 4,760 cases of all types of theft (27.86%
of all cases), 2,785 cases of aggravated theft (32.02% of all cases),
289 cases of robbery and violent theft (15.37% of all cases), 2,506
cases of breaking and entering (36.79% of all cases), 7 cases of
theft of motor cars (1.26% of all cases), 2,013 cases of other theft
(25.75% of all cases),19 cases of fraud (12.28% of all cases), 8
cases of counterfeit currency offences (24.00% of all cases), 31
cases of drug offences (6.08% of all cases).
(INTERPOL, International Crime Statistics
for 1998, citing National
Statistics)
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| Child
Soldiers |
RECRUITMENT
LAWS AND REGULATIONS
* The minimum age
for recruitment and conscription is 18 years. (CSUCS,
Africa Report, April 1999, citing the Ministry of Defence)
NOTES ON GOVERNMENT FORCES
*
There is no evidence of any underage recruitment. (CSUCS,
Africa Report, April 1999, citing Commission on Human Rights, 16 January
1997)
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| Domestic
Child Servants |
GENERAL NOTES
AND OBSERVATIONS
* Children are also
employed as domestic workers. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
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Other
Hazardous
Child Labour |
SPECIFIC
SECTORS
* Street Children -
There is a growing number of street children in Mbabane and Manzini.
(US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
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