Assignment on Child Trafficking

ASSIGNMNET NO 2
CHILD TRAFFICKING
1. INTRODUCTION:
Child trafficking is a forcible transportation of children from their
protective environment for the purpose of forced labor, slavery and
exploitation . they are sold for work and even for different purposes .
Men , women and children are all victims of human trafficking but
children are particularly at risk . Trafficking is done internally in
countries , across national borders and even through the continents .
Cheap labor is one of the causes of child trafficking . The demand for
cheap labor is linked with child trafficking especially where the working
conditions are poor. Children are forced into many illegal situations like
using children for transportation of drugs, domestic labor, sexual
exploitation or prostitution, slavery and even somewhere children are
turned into soldiers and even beggars. The children becomes victim of
trafficking in disasters, conflicts and different situation like war. The
groups and mafia’s or traffickers who are the source of it, benefit from
these situations and take the lost children separated from their families.
The children in these circumstances, easily become their pray .Migrants
are also a big target for the traffickers. Even in poor countries some
poor families sell their children for money to the traffickers .
The children who are trafficked work in hazardous environment and are
exposed to many dangers. They are not given a chance for freedom and
even they can’t make choices about themselves. They don’t get
education and are not even able to live their lives freely, just given some
food and clothes for their basic living.

2. FACTS AND FIGURES:
 As per the statistics globally 27 % of the victims of human
trafficking are children. In Pakistan 32022 trafficked victims are
reported per year from which 6937 were children.
 1.2 million children are trafficked every year worldwide according
to united nations
 Countries according to the child trafficking victims are ranked
under four tiers (tier 1, tier 2, tier2 watch list and tier 3) tier 3 is the
worst. Russia , Belarus , Turkmenistan , Burma , china , India ,
Iran , north Korea and Syria are ranked as tier 3 .Pakistan was
upgraded from tier 3 to tier 2 because of the efforts done against
trafficking .Most of the countries are tier 2 countries but expected
to fall in tier 3 in the future .
 Victims of child trafficking has increased by 20% from 2019.
 Worldwide 20% of the victims of trafficking are children.
 Approximately 45.8 million people are victims of trafficking
around the world and from which 10 million of them are children.
 However through these searches about statistics of human
trafficking cannot be just considered as the appropriate ones
because most of these cases goes undetected and unreported.
 In 36% cases of child trafficking their family is involved .
 54% of children are trafficked for sexual exploitation and one third
are for forced labor .In case of forced labor , 19% are forced to beg
, 18% are under domestic work , and 8% work for hospitality
sector .
 30% of the children trafficked are of age between 9-11.
3. CASE STUDIES:

So some cases were studied about the child trafficking.
CASE STUDY 1: This is a case of a 16 year old boy from Guatemala
whose family invited him to US under the pretense of getting education.
But as long as he arrived, his mother said that he has to pay his debt
which was used on him to bring him to the US. He was forced to work at
a construction site for 12 hours a day and 6 days a week. Even the
money he got from the job was taken by his stepfather, telling him that
those will be used for rent, food and the debt that he has to pay of
himself. When the stood against all of this his mother left him and he
didn’t had enough money to pay the rent and had nowhere to live. Then
he contacted a government agency who helps minors in US . He availed
government services and his case came under investigation.
CASE STUDY 2 : Jamila is 17-years-old. Jamila was four-years-old
when her parents decided to send her away to the city to her aunt.
Here she was to learn household chores and babysit her one-year-old
cousin. In exchange of this, her parents received 500 rupees and a carton
of oil each month.
Jamila is originally from a small town named Jampur, located in
southern Punjab.This part of the country is plagued with several ills such
as child labour, domestic violence, human trafficking and honour
killings amongst others.
But each year multitudes of girls flock to Karachi in search of better
living conditions and to seek refuge. It is what their mothers went
through and they're merely following tradition, willingly or unwillingly.
And what a mother suffers from, a daughter tends to repeat while
upbringing her children, leaving the girls from one generation after the
next, deprived of an education.
CASE STUDY 3: The girl horrifically had been forced to indulge in sex-
trading. She had come to the Edhi Foundation for help asking to be sent