Child Exploitation

Child trafficking is a form of child abuse. It is the exploitation of children for economic or sexual purposes, and includes the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring, or receipt of a child for exploitation. Children may be sold, illegally adopted, forced into early marriage, recruited into the armed forces, pushed into prostitution, or trafficked to work in mines, factories, or homes. In such environments they are exposed to extreme forms of abuse and are denied access to basic services and the meeting of their fundamental human rights. Trafficked children often lack basic legal status and support networks, making their condition virtually "invisible." 

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Kate Price,

The case study, which accompanies the Global Study on Sexual Exploitation of Children in Travel and Tourism, tells the story of Kate, a woman from the US who was sexually exploited as a child.

National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges and National Center for Missing & Exploited Children,

This technical assistance brief answers the question “What steps can a judge take when a child runs away or goes missing from care?” The brief is intended to educate juvenile and family court judges in the United States on the steps to be taken to assist in in locating and recovering children who go missing from care.

ASEAN,

This ASEAN Plan of Action, which complements the ASEAN Convention Against Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children (ACTIP), aims to provide specific action plans within ASEAN Member States’ domestic laws and policies, as well as relevant international obligations, to effectively address regional challenges common to all ASEAN Member States in the identified major concerns.

UNICEF ,

This case study of the child protection system in the United Republic of Tanzania is part of a UNICEF global initiative, undertaken in collaboration with Global Affairs Canada to document national child protection frameworks to gain an understanding of the country, the response of government and other actors, as well as other factors contributing to success in protecting children from violence, exploitation and abuse. 

Eddy J. Walakira, Ismael Ddumba-Nyanzi, Badru Bukenya,

This report presents findings of a baseline study for the Strong Beginnings -- A Family for all Children project.

Carlene Firmin and George Curtis, MsUnderstood Partnership (2015),

This briefing outlines what current research tells us about the nature of peer-on-peer abuse, and considers what this might mean for building a response. 

Global Study Sexual Exploitation of Children in Travel and Tourism,

The case study, which accompanies ECPAT's Global Study on Sexual Exploitation of Children in Travel and Tourism, tells the story of Dahlia, a 15 year-old girl from Indonesia who is a survivor of child sexual exploitation.

Tess Catherine Guiney - Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, University of Otago,

This thesis explores orphanage tourism within the context of Cambodia, adopting a critical geography approach to investigate the intricate and contentious aspects of tourism within this space.

Tess Guiney & Mary Mostafanezhad - Tourist Studies,

Taking a Polanyian political economy approach, this article illustrates how the emergence of and response to the orphanage tourism industry represent, in Karl Polanyi’s words, a ‘double movement’ between the neoliberalization of orphanages and the corollary protective countermovement by antiorphanage tourism campaigns that challenge the industry’s morality and legitimacy.

Forget Me Not,

This video, from Forget Me Not, features the story of Alisha, a young girl in Nepal who was separated from her family and taken to a children’s home in Kathmandu.