| 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, 128000 children between 16-19 years were economically active.
(ILO, Yearbook of Labour Statistics, 2001)
*
108,000 teenagers between 16-19 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)
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| Child
Slavery |
GENERAL NOTES
AND OBSERVATIONS
* The prohibition
of forced child labour is observed effectively.
(US
Dept of State, Human Rights Report, 1998)
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| Child
Trafficking |
ADULT STATISTICS
* Police officials
estimate that approximately 200 to 500 women were trafficked into Sweden,
primarily from neighbouring countries, during 2000. (US
Dept. of State, Trafficking in Persons Report, July 12, 2001)
GENERAL NOTES AND
OBSERVATIONS
* Sweden is a destination
country for trafficked women from the Baltic states and Central and Eastern
Europe, with a few cases from Cuba and Colombia, for purposes of sexual
exploitation. (US
Dept. of State, Trafficking in Persons Report, July 12, 2001)
* Women are trafficked
to the country for forced prostitution. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2000, February 2001)
* Sweden is used as
a transit country for trafficking Latin American women to brothels in Denmark,
Germany and the Netherlands. (CATW
Fact Book, citing "Trafficking of Women to the European Union", European
Conference on Trafficking in Women, June 1996)
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| Child
Prostitution and
Pornography |
ADULT STATISTICS
*
There are 2,500 prostituted women in massage parlours, escort agencies,
private apartments and on the streets in Sweden. An estimated 650 women
are street prostitutes. (CATW
Fact Book, citing Belinda Goldsmith, "Swedish sex buyers feel law's weak
slap", Reuters, 14 June 1998)
GENERAL
NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS
* Women are trafficked
to the country for forced prostitution. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2000, February 2001)
* Government considers
child pornography to be a serious problem.
(UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights, Concluding observations on Sweden, 1995)
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| Children
in Crime |
GENERAL JUVENILE
CRIME STATISTICS
* 0.2% of total
prisoners are juveniles. (UNDP,
Human Development Report, 1999)
* 14,947 between 15-17 years were
convicted of crimes.
(International Save the Children Alliance,
Children's Rights: Reality or Rhetoric?, 1999)
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| Child
Soldiers |
NOTES
ON FOREIGN OPPOSITION GROUPS
* There are reports
of child recruitment in Sweden by armed groups from other countries. (CSUCS,
Global Report on Child Soldiers - 2001)
* Further research
by Rädda Barnen suggests that other foreign armed groups have
also recruited children in Sweden. (CSUCS,
Global Report on Child Soldiers - 2001)
* Many families have
reported their children missing to the police. (CSUCS,
Global Report on Child Soldiers - 2001)
FOREIGN OPPOSITION
GROUPS STATISTICS
* It is believed that between 50 and 150 children have been recruited
by the Mujahidin from Sweden. (CSUCS,
Europe Report, October 1999, citing a confidential source)
* Between 40-50 Kurdish
teenagers have been recruited from Sweden by the PKK during the last 7
years. (CSUCS,
Europe Report, October 1999, citing Dagens Nyheter)
*
During the summer of 1998, Rädda Barnen learnt of PKK recruitment drives
in Swedish schools. 17 minors were invited to attend a 'summer camp' in
July in northern Sweden before being recruited to serve the PKK in south-east
Turkey. By mid-August 1998, only 3 of them had returned. Many families
have reported their children missing. Further research by Rädda Barnen
suggests that several hundred refugee or immigrant children have been recruited
in Sweden for use as soldiers elsewhere during the 1990s alone. (CSUCS,
Europe Report, October 1999, citing Radda Barnen)
RECRUITMENT
LAWS AND REGULATIONS
* All Swedish men may
be recruited in the armed forces from a calendar year in which they attain
the age of 19. (CSUCS,
Europe Report, October 1999, citing War Resisters' International, The CONCODOC
Project, 1998)
* Swedish legislation
on recruitment to the armed forces is very strict and no one under 18 could
perform military service or in any way be involved in hostilities or conflicts
that might concern Sweden. (CSUCS,
Europe Report, October 1999, citing UN CRC, Consideration of the Report
of Sweden, 20 April 1999)
* The minimum age
for conscription is 18 years. (Guy Goodwin-Gill and Ilene Cohn, Child Soldiers, The Role of Children in Armed Conflicts, A Study on Behalf of the Henry Dunant Institute, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1994)
NOTES
ON GOVERNMENT FORCES
* There are no under-18s in the government armed forces,
although children are known to participate in military training programs
from 15. (CSUCS,
Global Report on Child Soldiers - 2001)
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Child Servants |
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Other
Hazardous
Child Labour |
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