Child Trafficking for Sexual Purposes.
- Document number
- 2087
- Date
- 2008
- Title
- Child Trafficking for Sexual Purposes.
- Author/publisher
- Mike Dottridge, ECPAT International
- Availability
- View/save PDF version of this document
- Document type(s)
- Guidelines/Recommendations, Research/Study/Analysis,
- Keywords
- Best Interests Principle, Child Victims of Trafficking, Separated Migrant Children, Unaccompanied minors, Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), Child protection systems, Corporate social responsibility, Multi-stakeholder partnerships: Child Trafficking, Child Prostitution, Child Pornography,
- Summary
- A contribution of ECPAT International to the World Congress III against Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 25-28 November 2008.
The paper recognises that since 2001, many States and organisations have given priority to combating human trafficking, rather than to child trafficking or child trafficking that is specifically for sexual purposes. A great deal of information has been published about human trafficking, but it is often difficult to know which cases involve children. Similarly, in reports about efforts to stop child trafficking, it is difficult to know which efforts were relevant to stopping child trafficking for sexual purposes. In some circumstances, the attention given to ‘trafficking in persons’ (i.e., adults and children together) appears to have resulted in the specific rights and needs of children being neglected, as they have not been addressed explicitly. - Related documents