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FACT: Human trafficking can include forced labor, domestic servitude, organ trafficking, debt bondage, recruitment of children as child soldiers, and/or sex trafficking and forced prostitution. MYTH: Trafficking involves traveling, transporting or moving a person across borders.
- Child Trafficking Myth vs. Fact
Child trafficking affects millions of boys and girls around...
- Child Trafficking Myth vs. Fact
Child Trafficking Statistics. 27% of trafficking victims are children. The majority of human trafficking victims are involved in forced labor. Labor trafficking involves the use of fraud, coercion, or force in order to get a victim to provide labor or services.
Child trafficking undermines healthy societal structures and perpetuates cycles of poverty and exploitation. It destroys childhood and can trap trafficked children in a cycle of violence and exploitation when they become parents themselves; it disrupts education and hinders community development.
Children make up almost a third of all human trafficking victims worldwide. Refugee, migrant and displaced children are especially vulnerable to trafficking. Whether they are escaping war and violence or in search of opportunities, many children lack pathways to move regularly and safely…, Meet survivors of child trafficking , Blog ...
50 per cent of detected victims were trafficked for sexual exploitation, 38 per cent were exploited for forced labour. Female victims continue to be the primary targets. Women make up 46% and girls 19% of all victims of trafficking. Globally, one in every three victims detected is a child.
August 3, 2023 – Globally, over 50% of child trafficking victims are recruited by family and friends, according to a new report by the FXB Center for Health & Human Rights at Harvard University and the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
Child trafficking affects millions of boys and girls around the world. Fight misinformation by learning more about the myths and facts of child trafficking.