Child Trafficking in Europe: A Broad Vision to Put Children First
- Document number
- 1752
- Date
- 2008
- Title
- Child Trafficking in Europe: A Broad Vision to Put Children First
- Author/publisher
- United Nations Children’s Fund Innocenti Research Centre (UNICEF IRC)
- Availability
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- Document type(s)
- Research/Study/Analysis,
- Keywords
- Prevention, Information campaign, Protection, Victims of trafficking, Trafficked persons, Child trafficking, Sex tourism, Pornography, Sexual exploitation, Palermo protocol; Anti-trafficking measures; Crime prevention; Child trafficking; Best Interests Principle, Child Victims of Trafficking, Separated Migrant Children, Unaccompanied minors, Family reunification, Guardian, Family Tracing, Age Assessment, Freedom from Detention, Interim Care, Health, Education, Training, Integration, Adoption,
- Summary
- The UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre Insight entitled Child Trafficking in Europe: A broad vision to put children first examines how the European region is responding to child trafficking. It assesses the legal, policy and implementation frameworks in place to address this phenomenon, which affects the lives of untold numbers of children and families in the region and beyond. This study covers 51 countries/entities in Western and Eastern Europe and Central Asia (see Annex, page 47). It investigates the complexity of child trafficking from its origin to destination and maps trafficking patterns as well as targeted law and policy responses in the wide European region. The study highlights a number of concrete measures taken by European governments that show that increasing attention is being paid to the special situation and vulnerability of children affected by trafficking. At the same time, the study makes clear that although potentially influential international standards have been adopted, the extent to which such instruments and initiatives have actually been implemented across Europe or used to frame policies and actions is varied, inconsistent and uncoordinated. Some countries have not yet ratified important legal instruments, thus compromising the effectiveness of child protection.
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