What is Trafficking of children?
'''Trafficking of children''' is a form of [[human trafficking]]: [[Violence]] and [[Threat|threats]] are used to recruit them, or they are [[Kidnapping|kidnapped]]. They are then trafficked. ==Purposes== Trafficking children has several purposes: * Forcing them to work (this includes [[slavery]], and [[debt bondage]]) * [[Sex]]ually exploiting them (this includes [[Child prostitution|prostitution]] and child [[Child pornography|pornography]]) * Using them for work that is illegal (for example, as [[Beggar|beggars]], or [[Drug dealer|drug dealers]]) * [[Adoption]] * [[Forced marriage]] It is difficult to get exact numbers, but the [[International Labour Organization]] estimated that about 1.2 million children are trafficked per year.<ref>{{cite web|year=2010|title=Child Trafficking – Essentials|url=https://www.ilo.org/ipecinfo/product/download.do?type=document&id=14616|publisher=[[International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour|ILO-IPEC]]|location=Geneva|format=PDF|access-date=2021-01-01|archive-date=2021-11-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211111002022/http://www.ilo.org/ipecinfo/product/download.do?type=document&id=14616|url-status=dead}}</ref> Like human trafficking, trafficking of children is a [[crime]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Theirworld|date=2021-06-28|title=Child trafficking|url=http://theirworld.org/explainers/child-trafficking|access-date=2021-06-28|website=Theirworld|language=en}}</ref> == References == {{Reflist}} {{stub}} [[Category:Child abuse]] [[Category:Modern-day slavery]]