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Community Based Interventions to prevent Child Trafficking

Community Based Interventions to prevent Child Trafficking. Nikhil Roy Programme 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

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Community Based Interventions to prevent Child Trafficking

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  1. Community Based Interventions to prevent Child Trafficking Nikhil Roy Programme Team Manager www.antislavery.org

  2. 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

  3. Consequences of Child trafficking? Children are exploited: • for sex; • forced labour including domestic work; • begging; • marriage, adoption, organs.

  4. Vulnerability factors: • Poverty • Low school enrolment • Lack of birth registration • Children without caregivers • Humanitarian disasters and armed conflicts

  5. Vulnerability factors: • Demand for exploitative sex • Demand for cheap labour • Traditions and cultural values

  6. What can be done? • Anti-Slavery International’s work in West Africa • Lessons from our Global campaign

  7. Contact with and involvement of the children: • Meeting places • Involving former victims • Door to door • Hotlines • Focus groups

  8. Parents, schools, employers, community leaders: • Education and awareness raising • Teaching about rights • Vigilance committees • Tackling root causes • Using the media

  9. Beyond the community - wider interventions: • Legislation and enforcement • National plan of action • Strengthening capacities of law enforcement agencies • Poverty alleviation • Political will

  10. 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

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