Stop Child Trafficking

      What is child trafficking?  Trafficking is where children and young people tricked, forced or persuaded to leave their homes and are moved or transported and then exploited, forced to work or sold. Children are trafficked for :- •sexual exploitation •benefit fraud •forced marriage •domestic slavery like cleaning, cooking and childcare •forced labour in factories or agriculture •committing crimes, like begging, theft, working on cannabis farms or moving drugs. Trafficked children experience many types of abuse and neglect. Traffickers use physical, sexual and emotional abuse as a form of control. Children and young people are also likely to be physically and emotionally neglected and may be sexually exploited. Types of child trafficking :- 1.Traffickers often groom children, families and communities to gain their trust. They may also threaten families with violence or threats. Traffickers often promise children and families that they'll have a better future else...

 Trafficking of children is a form of human trafficking.  Every year 300,000 children are taken from all around the world and sold by human traffickers as slaves. 28% of the 17,000 people brought to the United States are children, with girls outnumbering boys by a factor of 2.5. Child trafficking is a serious problem that is prevalent especially in India. National Human Rights Commission of India report says that 40,000 children are abducted each year, leaving 11,000 untraced. A comparative study between domestic child labor rates in urban and rural regions in sub-Saharan Africa reveals that 84.3% of child labourers are working in the rural sector. 99.8% of children age five to fourteen are engaged in child labor for some form of economic activity in these regions. Main Causes of child trafficking are listed below:- 1. Poverty 2. Humanitarian Crisis 3. Lack of Education 4. Forced Child Labour 5. Weak Law Enforcement Human trafficking violates fundamental human rights of childr...