Community Based Interventions to prevent Child Trafficking
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Community Based Interventions to prevent Child Trafficking
Nikhil RoyProgramme Team Manager
www.antislavery.org
What is Child Trafficking?
Definition set out in the Palermo
Protocol- 3 key elements:
Recruitment, Abusive means of
control, Subsequent exploitation
Related issues and definitions
set out in:
CRC, ILO Convention 182 -Worst
Forms of child labour
Consequences of Child trafficking?
Children are exploited:
for sex;
forced labour including
domestic work;
begging;
marriage, adoption,
organs.
Vulnerability factors:
Poverty
Low school enrolment
Lack of birth registration
Children without caregivers
Humanitarian disasters and
armed conflicts
Vulnerability factors:
Demand for exploitative sex
Demand for cheap labour
Traditions and cultural
values
Contact with and involvement of the children:
Meeting places
Involving former victims
Door to door
Hotlines
Focus groups
Parents, schools, employers, community leaders:
Education and awareness
raising
Teaching about rights
Vigilance committees
Tackling root causes
Using the media
Beyond the community - wider interventions:
Legislation and enforcement
National plan of action
Strengthening capacities of
law enforcement agencies
Poverty alleviation
Political will
A song by Freedom Cake (Togo):
A child is our future
If a child leaves the family and
works, if a child is not
educated
The family will have a problem
If a child leaves the country
and is trafficked, the country
will have a problem