Trafficking of children
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Trafficking of children is a form of trafficking in human beings and is one of the practices associated with the worst forms of child labour by the International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC). Child trafficking is a crime under international law and under the national legislation of many countries. It typically involves:
- the separation of children from their family - "by force, coercion, trickery – including the administration of drugs – family and other complicity, or by much gentler persuasion, misinformation, or through ignorance about what really awaits them at their destination"[1] - and
- their relocation within the same country or across borders for purposes such as forced labour, prostitution, pornography, organ removal or use as child soldiers.
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[edit] International Legislation
- Convention concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour or Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention (ILO, no. 182, 1999)
- Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UN General Assembly, 2000)
Under both of the above-mentioned instruments, any person of less than eighteen years of age is considered to be a child.
[edit] References
- ^ International Labour Organisation, Unbearable to the Human Heart: Child Trafficking and Action to Eliminate It, Geneva: ILO/IPEC, 2002/ 97 pages. Quote from p. 20. N.B. The word "trafficking" is spelled "traficking" on the title page. [1]. Retrieved 2006-12-03.
