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Trafficking
in Children
These
children are the face of the international trafficking
in children today.
On
8 February 1998, His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales,
while in Kathmandu, met an 11-year old girl who had been
trafficked as a slave to India. She had just been
rescued a few days before, as well as other women and
children who had been trafficked for the purpose of
prostitution. His Highness condemned the international
trafficking of children. These children are often sold
into slavery by greedy parents, or are kidnapped by
traffickers or tricked by stories of respectable jobs.
The girls find themselves trafficked to India, locked in
rooms with bars on the windows and guarded by thugs to
extinguish any hope of escape, and used by wicked men.
The
international trafficking of women and children is a
growing phenomenon, as thousands of women and children
are trafficked by businessmen into dens around the world
and harems in north Africa and the Middle East.
We
also see economic pressures which force women and girls
into servitude.
The
material in this report is based on Missions to South
Asia, South-East Asia and various parts of Africa by the
Society's Secretary-General.
THE
SOCIETY IN ACTION
The Society has
embarked upon a program for the suppression of the
international trafficking of children in the
States of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka in the Republic
of India.
THIS
IS THE SOCIETY IN ACTION
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Further
Information
For
more information, read the Society’s
publication
entitled
Second Report on Trafficking of Women and
Children ($11.00).
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Links
to other pages dealing with this issue:
Sale
of children
Trafficking
of women
Links
to conventions dealing with this issue:
Protocol
on sale of children
Worst
Forms of Child Labor Convention 1999
Links
to pages dealing with related issues:
West
African slave trade
Odalisques
Internet
links:
US
Department of State
International
conference of trafficking in women and children hosted
by US Department of State
Trafficking
of women and children across "the largest slave
trade in history": UNICEF
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