Child trafficking

Child Trafficking

Child trafficking (pronunciation: /ˈtʃaɪld ˈtræfɪkɪŋ/) is a form of human trafficking specifically involving the exploitation of children.

Etymology

The term 'trafficking' is derived from the French word 'trafic', which has been used since the 16th century to refer to trade or commerce. The addition of 'child' specifies the demographic involved in this particular form of trafficking.

Definition

Child trafficking involves the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, or receipt of children for the purpose of exploitation. This can include, but is not limited to, forced labor, sexual exploitation, and organ trafficking.

Related Terms

• Human Trafficking: The broader category of crime that child trafficking falls under. It involves the exploitation of individuals through force, fraud, or coercion for various forms of labor or commercial sex.

• Forced Labor: A form of exploitation in which individuals are coerced into work through the use of violence or intimidation, or by more subtle means such as accumulated debt, retention of identity papers, or threats of denunciation to immigration authorities.

• Sexual Exploitation: The abuse of a position of vulnerability, differential power, or trust for sexual purposes; this includes profiting monetarily, socially, or politically from the sexual exploitation of another.

• Organ Trafficking: The recruitment, transport, transfer, harboring, or receipt of living or deceased persons or their organs by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability, or of the giving to, or the receiving by, a third party of payments or benefits to achieve the transfer of control over the potential donor, for the purpose of exploitation by the removal of organs for transplantation.

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