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„h In the US, almost 16 children a day were shot dead in 1997-- homicide, suicide or accidental shooting.
„h Between 1986 and 1992, the total number of children killed by firearms rose by 144 percent in the US
„h In the US, direct and indirect costs of gun violence in 1995 amounted to more than $14 billion
„h From 1985 to 1993, murders committed by people over age 25 dropped 20 percent; but they increased 65 percent among 18- to 24-year-olds and increased 165 percent among 14- to 17-year-olds. (US)
„h From 1985 to 1992, the homicide rate for 16-year-olds increased 138%, while the rate among 18-year-olds doubled, and the rate for 24-year-olds and above either remained the same or declined.
„h Children in adult jails commit suicide eight times as often as their counterparts in juvenile facilities. In addition, children in adult facilities are five times more likely to be sexually assaulted, and twice as likely to be beaten by jail staff.
„h In 1992, handguns killed 33 people in Great Britain, 36 in Sweden, 97 in Switzerland, 60 in Japan, 13 in Australia, 128 in Canada, and 13,200 in the United States. [Handgun Control Inc., cited in The Washington Post, 1998]
„h The average American adult believes that youths commit 43 percent of all violent crime in the U.S., three times the true figure of 13 percent--and, as a result, a large majority is eager to harshly punish juveniles(b)
„h 2,000 children/youths were murdered and 140,000 seriously injured in abuses inflicted by their parents and caretakers in 1993 (Associated Press, 4/26/95)
„h Child abuse increased the number of violent criminals by 38 percent and raised the national violent crime volume by over 60 percent (National Institute of Justice report, Cycle of Violence, Oct. 1992).
„h Within families, parents are six times more likely to murder their teenage children than the other way around. Bureau of Justice Statistics report, Murder in Families, 1994)
Sources
On Child Labor
Every Child Counts: New Global Estimates on Child Labor. International Labor Organization, International Program on the Elimination of Child Labor (ILO/IPEC). Geneva, April 2002.
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/standards/ipec/simpoc/others/globalest.pdf
For more information on the situation and on what you can do, see: http://www.ilo.org/public/english/standards/ipec/index.htm
(1) Statistics are for the year 2000
(2) Child labor is a narrower concept than “economically active children,” excluding children 12 years and older who are working only a few hours a week in permitted light work and those 15 years and above whose work is not classified as “hazardous.”
Population.
Source: The Second Decade, WHO, Adolescent Health and Development Program
http://www.who.int/child-adolescent-health/New_Publications/ADH/2_Decade.pdf
Adolescent Health
Source: The Second Decade, WHO, Adolescent Health and Development Program
http://www.who.int/child-adolescent-health/New_Publications/ADH/2_Decade.pdf
Street Children
Source: Street Children in Central America: An Overview, on the World Bank Labor and Social Protection Site, August, 2002.
http://wbln0018.worldbank.org/external/lac/lac.nsf/6dd54801ceee52f2852567d6006ca780/19e661ab7bbb25de852568cf006ad8a8
Youth and AIDS
Source: UNICEF, Children Orphaned by AIDS: Front line responses from Eastern and Southern Africa
http://www.unicef.org/pubsgen/aids/AIDSen.pdf
http://www.unicef.org/pubsgen/sowc02/sowc2002-eng-full.pdf
Youth and War
Questions and Answers; THE USE OF CHILDREN AS SOLDIERS, Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers Web-site, August 2002 http://www.child-soldiers.org/
See also: http://www.child-soldiers.org/report2001/global_report_contents.html
Source: Youth Violence Statistics, Character Counts
http://www.charactercounts.org/rskstats.htm
(b) EXTRA! Wild in Deceit : Why "Teen Violence" is Poverty Violence in Disguise, Mike Males, March/April 1996 http://www.fair.org/extra/9603/teen-violence.html
ChildStats.gov: America’s Children, 2001
http://childstats.gov/ac2001/toc.asp
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Interesting! Nguyen Thi Lan Anh |
Thanks Leon!
I found it very helpful. A great source of information! There are lots of interesting figures in relations to young people.
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