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Trafficking of children, preferably known as child trafficking, 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]:
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.
An important development was the implementation of a system of annual reports of member countries. Member countries formed their own centralized offices to track and report on trafficking of women and children. [4] The advisory committee also worked to expand its research and intervention program beyond the United States and Europe.
There were more than 17,200 reports of child sex trafficking nationwide in 2021, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Chidden. Local figures for child victims weren't readily ...
Like Bangladesh, Nepal is an important source country for the human trafficking business. The National Human Rights Commission of Nepal (NHRC) found that in 2018-19 alone, 35,000 Nepali citizens ...
Child exploitation may also involve forced labour or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude, the removal of organs, [35] illicit international adoption, trafficking for early marriage, recruitment as child soldiers, for use in begging or as athletes (such as child camel jockeys [36] or football trafficking.) [37]
St. Joseph’s will be training all 400 emergency room workers at its Paterson and Wayne hospitals in ways to spot trafficking victims.
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]