Child Trafficking

What are the cause of child trafficking?

Poverty:
The gap between the rich and the poor is becoming increasingly larger. Lack of local prospects, unemployment and a large number of children make parents susceptible to the promises of money or education for their children given by the traffickers. The young boys and girls leave their village to escape the miserable living conditions.

Child trafficking is a global phenomenon. Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, the problem has also spread to Central Europe. Children from the neighboring countries of Eastern Europe and Southeast Europe are trafficked into Western Europe. It is also the destination for boys, and especially girls, from Asia, Africa and Latin America, who are traded in the European Union and Switzerland. The children are forced to steal, kept as domestic help, used as drug peddlers or exploited sexually as prostitutes and for pornographic films. Even adoption child trafficking has a clientele in the EU countries.

Is there a realistic chance of controlling child trafficking?

Yes. If the countries involved act together and give more priority to the fight against child trafficking than before. Some of the campaign activities are aimed at making the governments more aware of this responsibility.

Prevention plays an important role in the fight against child trafficking. Families at risk must be warned and informed. Most of these families live in extreme poverty or under very difficult conditions and have no idea of what awaits them – coercion, rape, and unpaid labor. Therefore, in addition to supporting the victims, terre des hommes stresses on the importance of informing people in its campaign.

However, it is also clear that ultimately, child trafficking is always the result of an unequal distribution of wealth. Only a determined fight against poverty can eliminate the root cause of child trafficking.

Consequences of Child Poverty

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