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Trafficking of children is a form of human trafficking and is defined by the United Nations as the "recruitment, transportation, harboring, and/or receipt" kidnapping of a child for the purpose of slavery, forced labour, and exploitation. [1]:
The Underage Sex-Trafficking Coalition was formed in 2011 by the Arizona Attorney General. It seeks to raise public awareness, educate the community and advocate to strengthen laws about human trafficking. It began the Arizona's Not Buying It Campaign, [150] in partnership with Shared Hope International, to fight child sex trafficking. [151]
Child exploitation may also involve forced labour or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude, the removal of organs, [34] illicit international adoption, trafficking for early marriage, recruitment as child soldiers, for use in begging or as athletes (such as child camel jockeys [35] or football trafficking.) [36]
Slavery Footprint, a nonprofit organization based in Oakland, California, that works to end human trafficking and modern-day slavery [23] Stop Child Trafficking Now, an organization founded by Lynette Lewis, an author and public speaker [24] Stop the Traffik, a campaign coalition which aims to bring an end to human trafficking worldwide
Child slavery and human trafficking are global public health concerns with profound risks to life-course trauma and health. Globally, over 50% of child trafficking victims are recruited by family and friends, and children account for 27% of all human trafficking victims happening worldwide, with two out of every three child victims being girls.
Most of the underrepresented types of human trafficking fall in categories of forced labor, domestic servitude, forced marriage, organ harvesting and children trafficking. [3] In 2000, the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress, and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children , also known as the Trafficking Protocol, supplements the ...
Sex trafficking in the United States; Slavery by Another Name; Stop Advertising Victims of Exploitation Act of 2014; Stop Exploitation Through Trafficking Act of 2013; Stopping Traffic; Operation Stormy Nights; Surviving Sex Trafficking
The 1921 Convention ensure that protection from trafficking and sexual exploitation on the international level. The Article 6 states that "The High Contracting Parties agree, in case they have not already taken licensing and supervision of employment agencies and offices, to prescribe such regulations as are required to ensure the protection of women and children seeking employment in another ...