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

What can be done?

Anti-Slavery International’s work

in West Africa

Lessons from our Global campaign

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