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Child TraffickingChild Trafficking is a serious crime.
Children are trafficked for forced labor, domestic work, as child soldiers, and as camel jockeys, but most children are trafficked for sexual exploitation. And girls trafficked for forced labor and domestic work often end up sexually exploited by their employers.
In 2006, the US State Department reported that one million children are exploited in the global sex trade. Sex tourists, seeking anonymity and impunity in foreign lands, exploit many of these children in child sex tourism. Child trafficking can occur when children are abducted from the streets, sold into sexual slavery and forced marriage by relatives, or in any place where traffickers, pimps and recruiters prey upon a child's vulnerabilities. Poverty is the pre-condition that makes it easier for traffickers to operate. The greatest factor in promoting child sex trafficking and child sexual exploitation is the demand for younger and younger victims worldwide. This demand comes from the mostly male buyers who become the customers in the growing global sex industry. Most women in prostitution are trafficked into the sex industry as children. 75-80 percent of women in prostitution were sexually abused as children. Worldwide, the average age of entrance into prostitution is 13. When girls in prostitution become 18, their prostitution does not become a self-determined choice. CATW reminds us that we cannot separate child trafficking from the trafficking in women. CATW Combats Child TraffickingThe Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW) works to prevent child trafficking and sexual exploitation with innovative projects in Italy, Mexico, the Philippines and elsewhere. These are model programs that also educate young boys to be partners in the campaign against child and women trafficking rather than part of the problem -- the demand.CATW works internationally to combat sexual exploitation in all its forms, especially prostitution and trafficking of women and children, in particular young girls. CATW has produced major books, articles, reports and groundbreaking videos on prostitution and human trafficking as major human rights violations of women and children. |
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