| 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, 564000 children between 15-24 years were economically active.
(ILO, Yearbook of Labour Statistics, 2001)
* 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 OBSERVATION
* Forced and bonded
labour are not believed to occur. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
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| Child
Trafficking |
ADULT STATISTICS
*
There are 700 Thai women in prostitution in Bern, Switzerland, who make-up
a large portion of the total number of prostitutes.
(CATW
Fact Book, citing Srisamorn Thoy, Xenia, Mukadawan Sakboon, "Thai sex workers
hit by recession in Switzerland", The Nation, 5 May 1997)
GENERAL
NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS
* According to press reports, police officials are concerned over
a growing number of foreign women subject to abuse in sex trafficking
rings. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
* In the past, victims came from Thailand, parts of Africa, or South America;
recently an increasing number of women come from Hungary, Russia,
Ukraine, and other states of the former Soviet Union. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
* The main concentrations
of prostituted Dominican women working abroad are in Austria, Curacao,
Germany, Greece, Haiti, Italy, the Netherlands, Panama, Puerto Rico, Spain,
Switzerland, Venezuela and the West Indies.
(CATW
Fact Book, citing "Trafficking in Women From the Dominican Republic for
Sexual Exploitation", IOM, June 1996)
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| Child
Prostitution and
Pornography |
NATIONAL
STATISTICS
* An NGO published
the first compilation of cases of child pornography and prostitution
in the country. The study cited 60 cases. Most of the victims were
girls between 13 and 17 years of age.
(US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
ADULT STATISTICS
* Official police figures estimate that approximately 7,050 women work
as prostitutes, both legally and illegally, mostly in the major Swiss cantons.
(US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2000, February 2001)
*
There are 700 Thai women in prostitution in Berne, Switzerland,
who make-up a large portion of the total number of prostitutes.
(CATW
Fact Book, citing Srisamorn Thoy, Xenia, Mukadawan Sakboon, "Thai
sex workers hit by recession in Switzerland", The Nation, 5 May
1997)
GENERAL
NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS
*
Switzerland is primarily a destination country for trafficked women,
and is also a transit country. (US
Dept. of State, Trafficking in Persons Report, July 12, 2001)
* Most of the women trafficked for purposes of sexual exploitation
originate from former Eastern bloc and Soviet countries, including
the Balkan countries, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania,
and Estonia. A decreasing number of women are from Thailand, the
Dominican Republic, Brazil, and Colombia, and some African countries
such as Cameroon. (US
Dept. of State, Trafficking in Persons Report, July 12, 2001)
*
The number of women trafficked into Switzerland is increasing. (US
Dept. of State, Trafficking in Persons Report, July 12, 2001)
*
According to press reports, police officials are concerned over
a growing number of foreign women subject to abuse in sex trafficking
rings. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
* The main concentrations
of prostituted Dominican women working abroad are in Austria, Curacao,
Germany, Greece, Haiti, Italy, the Netherlands, Panama, Puerto Rico,
Spain, Switzerland, Venezuela and the West Indies.
(CATW
Fact Book, citing "Trafficking in Women From the Dominican Republic
for Sexual Exploitation", IOM, June 1996)
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| Children
in Crime |
GENERAL JUVENILE
CRIME STATISTICS
* In 1998 there
were 68,840 reported cases of juvenile crime, representing 17.90%
of all criminal cases. The specific offences were: 10 cases of murder
(5.75% of all murders), 662 cases of serious assault
(13.60% of all cases), 75,762 cases of all types of theft (25.00%
of all cases), 838 cases of robbery and violent theft (32.60% of
all cases), 19,060 cases of breaking and entering (22.85% of all
cases), 29,381 cases of theft of motor cars (36.55% of all cases),
432 cases of other theft (25.40% of all cases), 686 cases of fraud
(8.00% of all cases), 6,721 cases of drug offences (14.70% of all
cases).
(INTERPOL, International Crime Statistics
for 1998, citing National
Statistics)
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| Child
Soldiers |
GOVERNMENT
FORCE STATISTICS
* There are between
5 -10 under-18s recruited every year. (CSUCS,
Europe Report, October 1999, citing Reply from the Federal Department of
Foreign Affairs, Bern, 2 August 1999)
RECRUITMENT LAWS AND REGULATIONS
* The Swiss Government
has strongly supported the "straight-18" position in international
fora. (CSUCS,
Global Report on Child Soldiers - 2001)
* The minimum age
for conscription is 20 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
* The Swiss
Army has almost no full-time active combat units but is capable
of full mobilisation within 72 hours. (CSUCS,
Global Report on Child Soldiers - 2001 citing information provided
to CSC by Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs, April 2001)
* There are
indications of under-18s in government armed forces as voluntary
recruitment is possible from 17. (CSUCS,
Global Report on Child Soldiers - 2001)
FOREIGN
OPPOSITION GROUP NOTES
* There have
been reports of child recruitment in Switzerland by armed opposition
groups from other countries, namely, the Kosovo Liberation Army
for the conflict in Kosovo. (CSUCS,
Global Report on Child Soldiers - 2001)
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| Domestic
Child Servants |
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Other
Hazardous
Child Labour |
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