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Poverty is the leading cause for child trafficking worldwide. [112] [113] [114] Often parents are not able to provide for their families and consequentially exploit their children for financial reasons. These influencers lead to children being more inclined to take riskier jobs in order to sustain life for themselves and their families. [115]
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.
The Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption (or Hague Adoption Convention) is an international convention dealing with international adoption, that aims at preventing child laundering, child trafficking, and other abuses related to international adoption.
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 ...
Smita has been investigating child sex trafficking since she met this young girl. M., 16, shows marks of self-injury on her arm. M. used to be beaten by her alcoholic father. In December 2017, she ...
Both were arrested on child sex trafficking charges. Additional charges include sexual assault of a child (Gonzales) and promoting child sexual material (Andrews). The victims were two teenage ...
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 marriage is also one of the leading causes of child trafficking. [9] A lot of children have also been trafficked due to the demand by tourists. People will travel from countries where there are strict enforcement around child trafficking, as well as it being heavily frowned upon and socially unaccepted, to India to find child prostitutes ...