| Total
Child Labour |
NATIONAL STATISTICS
* There are an estimated
10 million child labourers. (SPARC, The State of Child Labour in South Asia,
December 1999, citing Government of Pakistan/UNICEF, Discover the Working
Child)
* For the year 2000, the ILO projects that there will be 2,993,000 economically
active children, 1,158,000 girls and 1,835,000 boys between the ages
of 10-14, representing 15.39% of this age group. (ILO, International Labour Office - Bureau of Statistics, Economically Active Population 1950-2010, STAT Working Paper, ILO 1997)
* 2,065,000 children between 10-14 years and 4,319,000 between 15-19 years
are economically active. (ILO, Yearbook of Labour Statistics, 1999)
* There are estimated to be 15 million child labourers in Pakistan. In areas
such as Tharparkar, 60% to 70% of all children of 15-17 years work.
20% to 25% is normal in the cities. (Human Rights Commission of Pakistan,
The State of Human Rights in Pakistan in 1999, Lahore)
* The Child Labour Survey in 1996 conducted by the Federal Bureau of Statistics
for the Ministry of Labour, Manpower and Overseas Pakistanis, found
8.3% or 3.3 million of the 40 million children aged 5-14 years to
be economically active practically on a full-time basis. These figures
are considered to be under-estimated. (ILO-IPEC, Programme in Pakistan,
1998)
* 3,215,344 children are economically active, of which 2,374,830
are males, 840,514 are females. (ILO-IPEC,
Combating Trafficking in Children for Labour Exploitation in the
Mekong Sub-region, October 1998, citing Pakistan Federal Bureau
of Statistics, Child Labour Survey, 1996)
* Of the total child population, 8.06% are economically active,
of these 11.53% are boys and 4.36% are girls.
(ILO-IPEC,
Combating Trafficking in Children for Labour Exploitation in the
Mekong Sub-region, October 1998)
* Of the 3.3 million working children, 73% are boys and 27% are girls. (ILO-IPEC,
Programme in Pakistan, 1998)
* 18% of 10-14 year olds are found working. (ILO-IPEC, Child Labour: ILO
in Asia and Pacific, 1997)
* Over 3,000 children enter the labour market each month. ("Pakistan: The
Predicament of Tens of Thousands of Bonded Labourers", UN Working
Group on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, June 1996)
* 11-12 million child labour were estimated in 1995, with at least half
under the age of 10 years. (Mir Zulfiqar Ali, "Asian Economic Crisis:
The Case of Pakistan", Child Workers in Asia, citing Pakistan Human
Rights Commission estimates)
* In 1995, there were 2,835,000 economically active children, 1,030,000
girls and 1,805,000 boys between the ages of 10-14, representing 17.67%
of this age group. (ILO, International Labour Office - Bureau of Statistics, Economically Active Population 1950-2010, STAT Working Paper, ILO 1997)
* There are an estimated 6 million working children. (ICFTU and ETUC, Pakistan:
Forced Labour, June 1995)
* One third of the work force is comprised of children. (ICFTU and ETUC,
Pakistan: Forced Labour, June 1995, citing CBS news segment "Eye to
Eye with Comy Chung", 1995)
* There are 19 million working children, 7 million below the age
of 10 and 12 million between the ages of 10-14.
(US Dept of Labor, Sweat and Toil of Children, 1994, citing Pakistan
Institute of Development Economics, "Why children do not go to school
in Pakistan", 2-5 April 1994)
*
The number of child workers under 15 years are estimated to be not
less than 8 million. (US
Dept of Labor, Sweat and Toil of Children: Efforts to Eliminate
Child Labour, 1998, citing a 1991 UNICEF and Government of Pakistan
publication)
*
Pakistan Labour Force survey 1990-91 indicates that some 2 million children
between 10-14 years are still active in the labour force. (US
Dept of Labor, Sweat and Toil of Children, 1994, citing ICFTU, Pakistan:
Forced Labour, June 1995)
LOCAL
STATISTICS
*
The Punjab accounts for 60% of the total child labour. (US
Dept of State, Human Rights Report, 1998)
GENERAL NOTES
AND OBSERVATIONS
* More than two-thirds
of child labourers are working in the agricultural sector. (ILO-IPEC,
Programme in Pakistan, 1998)
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| Child
Slavery |
NATIONAL STATISTICS
* Of 20 million bonded
labourers 7.5 million are children.
(ILO-IPEC,
Mainstreaming Gender in IPEC Activities, 1999)
* 1.2 million children
are bonded in the carpet factories. (EI, EI Barometer on Human and Trade Union Rights in the Education Sector, 1998)
* Of 35 million soccer balls stitched in Pakistan,
children produce one quarter of the balls, most of them as bonded
servants.
(Mary E. Williams, Child Labour And Sweat Shops, 1999,
citing Sydney Schanberg, Life, 1 June 1996) * The ILO report on
Pakistan indicates approximately 50,000 children working as bonded
labourers in the carpet sector.
(ICFTU and ETUC, Pakistan: Forced
Labour, June 1995)
* The number of
bonded workers is estimated as 20 million, of which 6 million would
be children. (ICFTU
and ETUC, Pakistan: Forced Labour, June 1995, citing ILO estimates)
* There are an estimated
8 million bonded child labourers. (US
Dept of Labor, Sweat and Toil of Children, 1994)
* 250,000 children working
in brick kilns are bonded labourers, driven into a miserable state by the
fact that their entire families have been 'pawned' to the owners by virtue
of their having pledged their labour in return for some money taken.
(CWA, Ghazanfer Abbas, "Child Labour in Pakistan", Child Workers in Asia, Vol. 10, No. 3, July - September 1994)
* BLLF in 1992 announced
that 8 million children were forcibly put to work.
(ICFTU
and ETUC, Pakistan: Forced Labour, June 1995, citing "The Battle Goes On",
Child Workers in Asia, October 1992-March 1993)
*
BLLF estimated in 1992 that nearly half a million bonded children
work in carpet industry alone.
(ICFTU and ETUC, Pakistan:
Forced Labour, June 1995)
ADULT
STATISTICS
*
200,000 Bangladeshi women have been trafficked to Pakistan for the slave
trade and prostitution. (CATW
Fact Book, citing UBINIG, Trafficking in Women and Children: The Cases
of Bangladesh, 1995)
GENERAL NOTES
AND OBSERVATIONS -
* Children are sometimes
kidnapped to be used as forced labour. (EI, EI Barometer on Human and Trade Union Rights in the Education Sector, 1998)
* Bonded labour,
a contemporary form of slavery according to the UN definition, is
still unfortunately prevalent in certain sectors in Pakistan, such
as brick manufacture, construction, sports goods manufacture and
carpet-weaving.
(HRCP, Shakeel Ahmed Pathan, submission to the ECOSOC
Commission on Human Rights, June 1997)
* Auctions of girls are
arranged for three kinds of buyers: rich visiting Arabs, the rich local
gentry, and rural farmers. (CATW-Asia
Pacific, Trafficking in Women and Prostitution in the Asia Pacific, 1996)
* The problem of
bonded labour has been aggravated with the arrival of adult and child
refugees from Afghanistan, Bangladesh .
(ICFTU and ETUC, Pakistan: Forced Labour,
June 1995)
* Children are
employed in hazardous industries such as match and fireworks factories,
carpet-making factories, agricultural industries under the authority
of land-owners, and in conditions of near slavery.
(OMCT/SOS, remarks to the UN CRC, April
1994)
*
Children are very often forced into a situation of bonded labour
by poverty.
(OMCT/SOS, remarks to the UN CRC, April 1994)
* Several thousand kidnapped
children are in forced labour at construction sites.
(ILO Committee of Experts, General Report,
1994, citing UNICEF, Situation Analysis of Children & Women in Pakistan)
* Millions of children
suffer under the bonded labour system in brick kilns, carpet industries,
agriculture, fisheries, stone/brick crushing, shoe-making, power looms,
refuse sorting. (US
Dept of Labor, Sweat and Toil of Children, 1994, citing "Pakistan: Bonded
Labour Abolition Act Passed at Last", Social & Labour Bulletin, April 1992)
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| Child
Trafficking |
NATIONAL
STATISTICS
* Over the last decade,
200,000 Bangladeshi girls were lured under false circumstances and
sold into the sex industry in nations including Pakistan, India
and the Middle East. (CATW
Fact Book, citing Tabibul Islam, "Rape of Minors Worry Parents",
IPS, 8 April 1998)
* Lawyers for
Human Rights and Legal Aid (LHRLA) of Pakistan have reported that
more than 19,000 boys from the region, ranging in age from two to
11 years old, have been trafficked as camel jockeys to the Middle
East- a trade that can cost them their lives. (ILO-IPEC,
Karen C. Tumlin , Overview of Child Trafficking for Labour Exploitation
in the Region, Working Papers on Child Labour in Asia - Vol -2,
Bangkok, ILO, 2001)
* On an average, annually
4,500 girls and children from Bangladesh are being trafficked to Pakistan
alone. (BNWLA,
Salma Ali, Country Report on Trafficking in Children and Their Exploitation
in Prostitution, October 1998, citing report by UNICEF and SAARC)
* Different human rights
activists and agencies estimate 200-400 young women and children are smuggled
out every month, most of them from Bangladesh to Pakistan.
(CATW
Fact Book, citing CEDAW Report: Bangladesh, 1 April 1997)
* About 40,000 children
from Bangladesh are involved in prostitution in Pakistan.
(ILO-IPEC, Rapid Assessment of Child Labour
Situation in Bangladesh, 1996)
* 4,800 Bangladeshi girls
were trafficked to Pakistan and India.
(Nishanthi
Priyangika, "Child labour on the increase in Bangladesh", World Socialist
Web Site, 3/11/1999, citing UNICEF Report 1994)
* In 1992, it was estimated
that some 20,000 children, some as young as 5 years old, were sent to the
Gulf region to be used as jockeys in camel racing.
(OMCT/SOS, remarks to the UN CRC, April 1994)
*
19,000 Pakistani children have been trafficked to the United Arab Emirates.
(CATW
Fact Book, citing SANLAAP India, Indrani Sinha, "Paper on Globalization
& Human Rights", citing LHRLA)
ADULT STATISTICS
*
500 Bangladeshi women are illegally transported into Pakistan every day.
(CATW
Fact Book, citing "Open sale of little girls at Tanbazar brothel", Daily
Star, 2 July 1998, citing BNWLA)
* 100-150 women are
estimated to enter Pakistan illegally every day. Few ever return to their
homes.
(CATW
Fact Book, citing "Slavery Still A Thriving Trade", IPS, 29 December 1997)
* At least 200,000
Bangladeshi women have been trafficked to Pakistan over the last 10 years.
(CATW
Fact Book, citing CEDAW Report: Bangladesh, 1 April 1997)
*
More than 150 women were trafficked to Pakistan every day between 1991
and 1993.
(CATW
Fact Book, citing SANLAAP India, Indrani Sinha, "Paper on Globalization
& Human Rights")
*
There have been 1 million Bangladeshi, and more than 200,000 Burmese women
trafficked to Karachi, Pakistan. (CATW
Fact Book, citing SANLAAP India, Indrani Sinha, "Paper on Globalization
& Human Rights")
GENERAL NOTES AND
OBSERVATIONS
* Pakistan is a source,
transit, and destination country for an increasing number of trafficked
persons. (US
Dept. of State, Trafficking in Persons Report, July 12, 2001)
* Women and children are trafficked for purposes of sexual
exploitation, bonded labour, and domestic servitude to the Middle East.
(US
Dept. of State, Trafficking in Persons Report, July 12, 2001)
* Pakistan is a source country for young boys who are
kidnapped or bought and sent to work as camel jockeys in the Gulf States.
(US
Dept. of State, Trafficking in Persons Report, July 12, 2001)
* Women and children are trafficked from East Asian countries
and Bangladesh through Pakistan to the Middle East. (US
Dept. of State, Trafficking in Persons Report, July 12, 2001)
* Pakistan serves as a destination point for women who
are trafficked from Bangladesh, Burma, Afghanistan, and the Central Asian
States. (US
Dept. of State, Trafficking in Persons Report, July 12, 2001)
*
There is extensive trafficking of children from Bangladesh, primarily to
India, Pakistan, and destinations within the country are also largely for
the purposes of forced prostitution.
(US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
* India and Pakistan
are the main destinations for children under 16 who are trafficked in South
Asia. (CATW
Fact Book, citing Masako Iijima, "S. Asia urged to unite against child prostitution",
Reuters, 19 June 1998)
* Nepalese, Bangladeshi
and Pakistani women are trafficked to India, and through India they are
trafficked to Eastern Europe and Saudi Arabia.
(CATW
Fact Book, citing Meena Oudel, Oxfam Nepal, 18 March 1998)
* Reports indicate trafficking
of children into Pakistan from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal and Sri
Lanka. (US
Dept of Labor, Prostitution of Children, 1996)
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| Child
Prostitution and
Pornography |
NATIONAL
STATISTICS
* Between 20,000 and 40,000 children are in
prostitution in Pakistan.
(June Kane, Sold for Sex, Aren Ashgate Publising Limited Gower House, 1998)
* Over the last decade,
200,000 Bangladeshi girls were lured under false circumstances and sold
into the sex industry in nations including Pakistan, India and the Middle
East. (CATW
Fact Book, citing Tabibul Islam, "Rape of Minors Worry Parents", IPS, 8
April 1998)
* There are an estimated
240,000 children in prostitution. (ECPAT
International, The Price of Lamb, 1996)
*
About 40,000 children from Bangladesh are involved in prostitution in Pakistan.
(ILO-IPEC, Rapid Assessment of Child Labour
Situation in Bangladesh, 1996)
LOCAL STATISTICS
* About 40% young girls of the half a million Afghan children in
Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province have no where to go except
to local brothels and be called 'Gilam Jam'.
(ECPAT, ECPAT, "Sex Tourism and the Travel Industry", Travel Trade, Gazette Asia, 25-31 October 1996, reprinted in ECPAT Bulletin, October 1996)
* Male child prostitution
is more common than any form of exploitation. There are nearly 15,000-20,000
child prostitutes present in Lahore in the areas near bhatti and railway
station. (NCCWD,
Combating Child Trafficking: Pakistan)
*
There are nearly 500 child prostitutes in Rawalpindi alone.
(NCCWD, Combating Child Trafficking: Pakistan)
GENERAL
NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS
* Awareness of the problem
of sexual abuse is very reluctantly acknowledged, particularly by the government.
Underground sexual exploitation of children, especially boys, is reported
to be widespread within the country. (ECPAT
International, A Step Forward, 1999)
* There is extensive
trafficking of children from Bangladesh, primarily to India, Pakistan,
and destinations within the country are also largely for the purposes of
forced prostitution. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
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| Children
in Crime |
GENERAL JUVENILE
CRIME STATISTICS
* There are a total
of 4,000 children in jails. (Human
Rights Commission of Pakistan, The State of Human Rights in Pakistan, 1999)
*
3,200 children are reported to be in prison.
(US
Dept of State, Human Rights Report, 1998)
LOCAL
STATISTICS
*
In the state of Punjab, the children under 18 convicted for crime numbered
around 1,600. Of those convicted, 101 faced death and a number of others
were undergoing sentence of 14 to 50 years.
(Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, The
State of Human Rights in Pakistan, 1999)
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| Child
Soldiers |
OPPOSITION
GROUP STATISTICS
*
Some madrasas have emerged as centres for indoctrination, training
and recruitment of young fighters for the armed conflicts in Afghanistan,
Jammu and Kashmir. In February 2000 the Pakistani Interior Minister
claimed that "only 1%" of the madrasas in Pakistan sent their students
for training in Afghanistan. Reportedly, there are 219,000 students
in madrasas in Punjab province alone. (CSUCS,
Asia Report, July 2000, citing A. Baruah, "Pakistan bans display
of arms", The Hindu, 17 February 2000)
RECRUITMENT
LAWS AND REGULATIONS
*
Volunteers from 16 years of age are in the armed forces. (Rädda
Barnen, Childwar database)
*
The legal enlistment age is between 17 and 22 for officers, and between
16 and 25 for soldiers. (Mission of Pakistan
to the UN, 16 December 1997)
*
The Pakistan Government representative said that while Pakistan
recruited under 18s, it had adequate safeguards to ensure they were
not involved in armed conflict. (CSUCS,
Asia Report, July 2000, citing the Pakistan Government Representative
to the Asia Pacific Conference on Child Soldiers, 15-18 May 2000)
GENERAL NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS
* Much attention has
been paid to the role of informal Islamic schools or madrasas in recruiting
children for political and military activities. (CSUCS,
Global Report on Child Soldiers - 2001 citing Spillius, A., "Seminaries
churn out warriors for Kashmir", op. cit. )
* There are no official
figures regarding the number of madrasas in Pakistan; estimates vary between
15,000 and 25,000. Some madrasas have emerged as centres for indoctrination,
training and recruitment of young fighters for the armed conflicts in Afghanistan,
Jammu and Kashmir. (CSUCS,
Global Report on Child Soldiers - 2001 citing Chandran, S., "Madrassas
in Pakistan-I. Madrassas a brief review", Article No. 314, 25/1/00,
IPCS, New Delhi,, http://www.ipcs.org)
* UN sources reported
further recruitment of children from madrasas in the summer of 1999 when
the Taliban launched a major recruitment drive in expectation of a new
offensive. (CSUCS,
Global Report on Child Soldiers - 2001 citing UN document S/PV.4037, Provisional
Verbatim of Security Council debate on children and armed conflict, 25/8/99)
NOTES
ON GOVERNMENT FORCES
* There are indications
of under-18s in government armed forces as the minimum age for voluntary
recruitment is 16, but there is no evidence of their deployment. (CSUCS,
Global Report on Child Soldiers - 2001)
NOTES
ON OPPOSITION GROUPS
* Some internal armed
groups are also known to have children in their ranks. (CSUCS,
Global Report on Child Soldiers - 2001)
* It is believed that the Mohajir Qaumi Movement (MQM) factions have under-18s
in their ranks. (CSUCS,
Global Report on Child Soldiers - 2001)
* Human Rights Watch reported in 1999 that "on August
12, 1998, unidentified gunmen shot Mohajir men, including one 16 year old,
who was the only one to survive. Later that evening nine Muttahida activists,
ranging in age from 15 to 22, were killed and five were injured by unknown
gunmen." (CSUCS,
Global Report on Child Soldiers - 2001 citing HRW Report 1999, op. cit.)
* There is evidence
that children, some under 14, have been recruited by armed groups fighting
in neighbouring Afghanistan and Jammu and Kashmir. (CSUCS,
Global Report on Child Soldiers - 2001)
* The degree
to which under 18-year-old activists
of Mohajir Qaumi Movement (MQM) factions
are engaged in armed conflict is unclear as many such killings take
place in disputed circumstances. (CSUCS,
Asia Report, July 2000, citing Human Rights Watch, World Report,
1999)
* Amnesty International
has reported forced recruitment of children in Pakistan through madarsas
to fight in Afghanistan. (CSUCS,
Asia Report, July 2000, citing Amnesty International, Children in South
Asia Securing Their Rights, 1 April 1998)
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| Domestic
Child Servants |
NATIONAL
STATISTICS
* 6.7% of female child
workers were found in domestic help. (CWA, Ghazanfer Abbas, "Child Labour in Pakistan", Child Workers in Asia, Vol. 10, No. 3, July - September 1994, citing 1990 survey jointly by the PILER in Karachi and SEBCON in
Islamabad)
GENERAL
NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS
* Child domestic
workers generally have to work for 15 hours a day, seven days a week.
(UNICEF
Innocenti Digest on Child Domestic Work, May 1999, citing "The
Phenomenon of Child Domestic Work: Issues, Responses and Research
Findings", 19-23 November 1997)
* There are
significant numbers of young Bangladeshi girls who were abducted
for the 'slave trade', to be employed as domestic servants in the
Middle East and Pakistan. (An
Alternative Report to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child,
submission to the UN CRC, 1997)
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Other
Hazardous
Child Labour |
ASSORTED STATISTICS
* More than 5 million children are employed
in the textile, clothing, footwear and leather sectors.
(ICFTU and
ETUC, Pakistan: Forced Labour, June 1995, citing estimates of Pakistan
National Textile, Leather and Garment Workers' Federation of Multan)
*
A survey found most of the children working in the informal sector in a
variety of activities; 52.2% of them in the production sector such as glass
making, battery-cell making, printing and publishing, textiles, metal works,
jewelry making, plastics, leather works, carpet weaving, garments, paper
and packaging, furniture, engineering and auto workshops, while 32.82%
were found in the service sector such as petrol pump operators, plumbers,
washermen, sweepers, garbage collectors, barbers, shoe polishers, hawkers,
car cleaners, hotel and restaurant workers, domestic helpers, shop assistants
and tailors. (CWA, Ghazanfer Abbas, "Child Labour in Pakistan", Child Workers in Asia, Vol. 10, No. 3, July - September 1994, citing 1990 survey jointly by the PILER in Karachi and SEBCON in
Islamabad)
GENERAL
NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS
* A large number of children
work in urban centres, weaving carpets, making surgical instruments and
producing sporting goods. (US
Dept of Labor, Sweat and Toil of Children,1994)
* There are allegations
of children working in industries including leather, footwear and mining.
(US
Dept of Labor, Sweat and Toil of Children, 1994)
*
Children are employed in hazardous industries such as match and
fireworks factories, carpet-making factories, agricultural industries
under the authority of land-owners and in conditions of near slavery.
(OMCT/SOS, remarks to the UN CRC,
April 1994)
SPECIFIC
SECTORS
*
Auto Workshops - A survey conducted by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan
published in June 1999 noted that there are approximately 4,000 children
working in auto workshops in the Mardan district of the NWFP. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2000, February 2001)
*
Camel Racing - In 1992, it was estimated that some 20,000 children, some
as young as 5 years old, were sent to the Gulf region to be used as jockeys
in camel racing. (OMCT/SOS,
remarks to the UN CRC, April 1994)
* Brick Kilns -
A minimum of 250,000 children live and work in brick kilns in complete
social isolation. (CWA,
Ghazanfer Abbas, "Child Labour in Pakistan", Child Workers
in Asia, Vol. 10, No. 3, July - September 1994)
* Brick Kilns -
Tens of thousands of children work with their families in brick kilns.
(ILO Committee of Experts, General Report,
1994)
* Carpet Industry
- 120,000 to 1 million children work in the carpet industry. The figure
includes children in debt-bondage also.
(US
Dept of Labor, Sweat and Toil of Children: Consumer Labels and Child
Labor, 1997)
* Carpet Industry
- The number of child workers in carpet industry was 500,000.
(US
Dept of Labor, Sweat and Toil of Children: Consumer Labels and Child
Labor, 1997, citing a memorandum of SACCS to US Dept of State, 20
February 1996)
* Carpet Industry
- 1.2 million children engaged in the carpet industry.
(ICFTU,
No Time to Play, 1996, citing UNICEF)
* Carpet Industry
- It is estimated that a minimum of 1 million workers comprise the
workforce of the country's large and labour-intensive carpet industry,
of which more than 500,000 are children.
(CWA,
Ghazanfer Abbas, "Child Labour in Pakistan", Child Workers
in Asia, Vol. 10, No. 3, July - September 1994)
* Carpet Industry - Reports tentatively estimate
that out of 15 million workers in the carpet industry, 1 million
are children. (ICFTU and ETUC, Pakistan:
Forced Labour, June 1995, citing UNICEF, Child Labour in the Carpet
Weaving Industry in Punjab, 1992)
* Manufacturing - 11 million children aged 4-14
keep the country's factories operating. (Jonathan
Silvers, "Child Labour in Pakistan", The Atlantic Monthly, 1996)
* Mining and Quarrying - 50,000 children are involved
in mining. (ICFTU-APRO, Sub-Regional
Seminar on Child Labour, October 1993)
* Scavenging
- 20.3% of child workers are engaged as rag-pickers.
(Sarah Javed and Zarina Jilani, Child
Labour in Islamabad, 1997)
* Sporting Goods
Industry - 80% of soccer balls sold in the US are made in east Pakistan,
where 1 in 5 workers are children between the ages of 7 and 12.
(Canadian Labour Congress, Challenging
Child Labour, 1998)
* Sporting Goods
Industry - In 1997, 5,400 children were removed from the soccer
ball industry.
(US
Dept of State, Human Rights Report, 1998)
* Sporting Goods
Industry - Sialkot district alone produces nearly 75% of the world's
hand-stitched soccer balls. As many as 7,000 children currently work
in the industry. (EI,
EI Quarterly Magazine, September 1997, citing ILO)
* Sporting Goods
Industry - Of 35 million soccer balls stitched in Pakistan, children
produce one quarter of the balls, most of them as bonded servants.
(Mary E. Williams, Child Labour And
Sweat Shops, 1999, citing Sydney Schanberg, Life, 1 June 1996)
* Sports Goods
Industry - Children constitute approximately 20-25% of the work force
in the sports goods industry and range from 12-15 years.
(US
Dept of Labor, Sweat and Toil of Children, 1994)
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