Trafficking of children

form of human trafficking defined as the "recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, and/or receipt" of a child for the purpose of exploitation

Trafficking of children is a form of human trafficking: Violence and threats are used to recruit them, or they are kidnapped. They are then trafficked.

Purposes

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Trafficking children has several purposes:

It is difficult to get exact numbers, but the International Labour Organization estimated that about 1.2 million children are trafficked per year.[1]

Like human trafficking, trafficking of children is a crime.[2]

References

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  1. "Child Trafficking – Essentials". Geneva: ILO-IPEC. 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-11-11. Retrieved 2021-01-01.
  2. Theirworld (2021-06-28). "Child trafficking". Theirworld. Retrieved 2021-06-28.