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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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 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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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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Child Trafficking in the U.S. Imagine getting in a fight with your parents‚ your mom is on meth‚ your dad is drunk and just beat you and your mom‚ you go outside and some man pulls up in a lamborghini and says “I can give you all the money you want‚ and some loving parents”. As soon as you get close to his car some guy in the back grabs you and puts a gun to your head telling you not to do anything stupid. He takes you to his house where he keeps other little girls like you and decides to try you
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"The child‚ by reason of his physical and mental immaturity‚ needs special safeguards and care... Mankind owes to the child the best it has to give" -The United Nations "Convention on the Rights of the Child." All 193 United Nation members have ratified this. Except for Somalia‚ South Sudan‚ and the United States (UNTC). Children from all over the world suffer from a lack of people speaking up. In Africa men are able to buy women for five dollars that night. Yet the women know that they
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