Trafficking of children
Trafficking of children is a form of human trafficking: Violence and threats are used to recruit them, or they are kidnapped. They are then trafficked.
Purposes[change | change source]
Trafficking children has several purposes:
- Forcing them to work (this includes slavery, and debt bondage)
- Sexually exploiting them (this includes prostitution and child pornography)
- Using them for work that is illegal (for example, as beggars, or drug dealers)
- Adoption
- Forced marriage
It is difficult to get exact numbers, but the International Labour Organization estimated that about 1.2 million children are trafficked per year.[1]
Like human trafficking, trafficking of children is a crime.[2]
References[change | change source]
- ↑ "Child Trafficking – Essentials". Geneva: ILO-IPEC. 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-11-11. Retrieved 2021-01-01.
- ↑ Theirworld (2021-06-28). "Child trafficking". Theirworld. Retrieved 2021-06-28.
