Priceless Commodity: An Essay on Child Trafficking Child Trafficking is a form of human trafficking. It is defined as the recruitment‚ transfer and harbouring of children‚ for purposes of exploitation (Child Trafficking‚ www.dictionary.com). The trafficking of children is the third largest global consumer market‚ especially in areas of Asia‚ Latin America‚ the Caribbean‚ the Middle East and North Africa‚ with an estimated 1.2 million children being trafficked annually. (UN.GIFT). Since poverty
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Children’s trafficking has been an issue of major concern for the international community in recent years. Trafficking in persons‚ the illegal practice of procuring human beings for unpaid work in physically abusive settings‚ has reached large scales lately‚ with figures such as 1.2 million children annually being transported from poverty-stricken countries to wealthier nations. The trafficking of children often involves exploitation of the parents’ extreme poverty. The latter may sell children to
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Child Trafficking UNDOC defines human trafficking as acquisition of people by illegal means such as force‚ fraud‚ deception‚ abduction or coercion for the purpose of exploiting them. According to one statistics of US state department‚ human trafficking victims are mostly women and girls (approximately 80%) and up to 50% are minors or children. It is well known fact that in each and every step of subsistence prevention is better than cure. Nowadays when crime and injustice become inevitable misery
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SIGNATURE : (TAN DJONI) Child Trafficking as a Threat to Future Generations Over Easter weekend in April 2001 a story flashed around the world about a ‘slave ship’‚ the Etireno‚ off the coast of Nigeria in West Africa. Journalists reported that several hundred slave children were on board. The reality turned out to be different and was a classic case of trafficking in West Africa‚ where young children are routinely employed far from home as
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A child is a young human being who is not yet an adult. It also defines trafficking as an act of buying and selling things illegally. So‚ child trafficking is an inhuman act where children are being used unjustly as objects of business transaction. Boys and girls are involved but girls are mostly involved as victims. They are taken from their parents by the trafficker who with deceitful words promises the girl’s parent’s heaven and earth for instance that she will send them to school or that she
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Child Trafficking in the U.S. Imagine visiting your favorite event of the year‚ the Superbowl‚ and when you leave you find yourself leaving with some guy you don’t know‚ and in hours you are in some house with three or four other girls and you guys have to sit around naked and please anyone who pays for it.Children are being trafficked all over the U.S for three main reasons. Prostitution‚ Slave work‚ or work around the house.Children that are trafficked are mainly entered into the sex trade.Trafficking
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Despite the issue of Child trafficking is in front agenda of many governments and non government authorities during the last decade and even after formulation the National Plan of Action against Trafficking of Human Being in the year of 1998‚ the source states su ch like Assam‚ Bihar and Jharkhand and the destination States like Haryana & Punjab were not in the Trafficking Map of the India till the year 2003. A team Shakti vahini had visited the state of Assam along with a team of Haryana Police
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Not For Sale EQ: What is the history of child trafficking in the United States‚ and how effective have the current laws been in stopping this practice? Child trafficking is disturbing. It is even more disturbing to know that the child trafficking business is making billions of dollars. More shocking than the huge consumption of money is that the trafficking of children all around in the United States especially California. Our home state. There have been cases in all fifty states in the
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Trafficking is a worldwide phenomenon affecting large numbers of children every day and it is a curse to our civil society. Child trafficking is about taking children out of their protective environment and preying on their vulnerability for the purpose of exploitation. Children and their families are often lured by the traffickers for employment‚ education‚ marriage and prosperous life far from their homes. Some others are kidnapped‚ abduct and buying and selling for unlawful gain. Trafficking
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CHILD TRAFFICKING IN INDIA INTRODUCTION * Trafficking in human beings‚ especially in women‚ and children has become a and girls – have been exposed to unprecedented vulnerabilities commercial exploitation of these vulnerabilities has become a massive organized crime and a matter of serious national and international concern. Women and children – boys multimillion dollar business. * Trafficking violates all known canons of human rights and dignity. In this world of tragic and complex
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