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Child Labour |
NATIONAL STATISTICS
* For the year 2000, the ILO projects that
there will be 53,000 economically active children between the ages
of 10-14, representing 2.35% of this age group. Of these children,
31,000 are girls and 22,000 are boys.
(ILO, International Labour Office - Bureau of Statistics, Economically Active Population 1950-2010, STAT Working Paper, ILO 1997)
* 9.8% of the total child
population between 10-14 years are economically active. This constitutes
4.8% of the total labour force. (ILO-IPEC,
Amal Dibo, Child Labour in Few Countries of the Arab Region, 1999)
* Of the total number
of working children, 12% are children under the age of 10, 38% of them are
between 12-14, while 50% are between 15-17. (ILO-IPEC,
Amal Dibo, Child Labour in Few Countries of the Arab Region, 1999)
* 127,000 children between
10-14 years of age, and 638,000 between 15-19 are economically active. (ILO,
Yearbook of Labour Statistics, 1999)
*
In 1995, there were 115,000 economically active children between the ages
of 10-14, representing 5.78% of this age group. Of these children, 67,000
were girls and 48,000 were boys. (ILO, International Labour Office - Bureau of Statistics, Economically Active Population 1950-2010, STAT Working Paper, ILO 1997)
GENERAL
NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS
* According to an
official survey, the percentage of child labourers has shown a substantial
increase. (ILO-IPEC, Amal Dibo, Child Labour
in Few Countries of the Arab Region, 1999)
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| Child
Soldiers |
RECRUITMENT
LAWS AND REGULATIONS
* The minimum age
for conscription is 19 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
* It is not known
if there are any under-18s in government armed forces due to lack of information
on the minimum age for voluntary recruitment. (CSUCS,
Global Report on Child Soldiers - 2001)
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