child trafficking

Child trafficking is one of the world’s major problems. Every year 1.2 million children are trafficked by different agents. The traffickers bring children and engage them in factories, mills and brothels. It is a worst form of child labor as defined by ILO (International Labor Organization). Here the traffickers recruit, transport, transfer children for the purpose of exploitation.

The agents involved in trafficking attract the child and his family under the guise of providing employment. They lure them with the promises of a lucrative job and comfortable lifestyle abroad and bring them to sell at a high amount of money. Then the child is engaged into begging, smuggling, drug trade, military and circuses, beer bars, factories as laborers. As such, the child has to face tremendous torture physically, sexually and mentally. There is a wide network of these cheats, often known as traffickers. Brokers, owners of brothels, family relatives, friends, the police, and political leaders may be connected with this network.

To save individuals from human trafficking, effective legal agencies should be set up that work against traffickers and exploiters. Since the network of traffickers is interrelated, we need to take strict measures to save people from human trading. These include effective monitoring of trafficking, effective coordination between the ministries of tourism, labor and transport to fight against this socio-economic problem. This is an issue that needs to be dealt with an iron hand as it involves child abuse and the denial of basic human rights.

Girls from poor families are lured by the traffickers from across the world with the promise of a new life and subsequently they are sold at the brothels and bars. According to recent research, most of the traffickers buy and sell women among Asia, Soviet Union, South America and the West Coast. The numbers of sex slaves are increasing day by day. Girls who work in massage parlors and bars are often exploited sexually by the traffickers. They threaten the victim to harm their families or to put them into prison and terrify them by confiscating their legal documents like visa, passport, birth certificate, etc. The victims of sex trafficking are not allowed to keep in touch with the outside world and often they have to face rude behavior of their bosses and brutal beating.The cases of sex trafficking are very common nowadays. This means to force a person to work as sexual slave. The victim can be a child, a teen or an adult. Almost 80% victims of human trafficking are female and around 70% of them are sexually exploited in the film industries, advertising industries, fashion industries and private organizations.
the poorest parts of Nepal are trafficked every year — sold by their desperate parents or lured by the false promises of traffickers. These girls, sometimes as young as nine, end up in the brothels of India where they become slaves. Many are HIV positive within two years, and are dead before they are out of their teens. Our approach to combating this modern-day slavery is simple and surprisingly effective.Poverty, ignorance, and a system that does not value women. The Nepali quote “educating your daughter is like watering a flower in another man’s garden” sums up the cultural attitude towards girls. That the best a girl can hope for is to be married off very young and spend her life working in the fields makes her very vulnerable to traffickers. They promise the parents that their daughter will have a good job and send money home every month. Or promise to marry the girl and take her to a bright life in the city. And another girl “goes missing”.Reluctance to send girls to school is dropping away, and whole villages are asking to be included in our work. Educating the most at-risk girls in a village spreads enough knowledge to keep traffickers at bay. Our girls are motivated: despite their odds, they pass their high school leaving exams at double the national average. And we have not lost one girl to trafficking.