Human trafficking, especially of children, is a major global problem. Over 1.2 billion children are trafficked annually, generating $29.5 billion in profit. Children are trafficked for purposes like sexual exploitation, domestic servitude, factory/farm work, and soldiering. Risk factors include poverty, migration, and false promises of economic opportunities. Traffickers use techniques like fraud, violence, and threats to control victims. Trafficking has severe negative impacts on victims' health, development, and rights. A holistic, multi-sectoral approach is needed to address the complex causes and consequences of this modern form of slavery.

2. A form of human trafficking
 The recruitment, transportation, transfer
and harboring of children for the purpose of
exploitation.
 Any act or transaction where a child is
transferred by any person or a group of
people for money or any kind of other form
of payment.

3. It is also a kind of modern slavery.
 Sex trafficking
 Domestic servitude
 Factory and farm slavery
 Children In army
 Children in bondage labour
 Baggers.

4.  1.2 billion children and babies are trafficked
annually worldwide.
 Profit of $29.5 billion every year.
 Two million children are exploited in the
transnational sex trade.
 No record in what form of trafficking takes
place.

5.  Loss of support from the family and
community
 Loss of proper education
 Obstacles in physical development
 Psychological traumas
 Isolation or boycott from the society
 Exploitation of child rights.

6.  Poverty
 migration
 Political instability
 Militarisms
 Civil unrest
 Natural disaster in homeland
 Promises of economic opportunities for a
better life.
 Lack of unemployment.

7.  Fraud
 Trickery
 False promises
 Familiarity
 VIOLENCE
 Slaveholders keep things in control by
constant threat of violence
 Almost all trafficked children's are victims
of an extreme act of violence.

8.  Fuels organized crime
 Deprives countries of human capital
 Promotes social breakdown
 Undermines public health
 Imposes enormous economic cost
 Subverts government authorities

9.  Anxiety
 Depression
 Sleep disorders
 Post traumatic stress disorder
 Disorientation
 Confusion
 Phobias and panic attacks.

10.  Legal Framework to Address Trafficking in India
 Article 23 of the Constitution Guarantees right
against exploitation; prohibits
 traffic in human beings and forced labour and
 makes their practice punishable under law.
 Legal Framework to Address Trafficking in India
 Article 23 of the Constitution Guarantees right
against exploitation; prohibits
 traffic in human beings and forced labour and
 makes their practice punishable under law.

11.  Media attention reaches several hundred
thousand viewers and should therefore serve
the following important functions:
 The media should transmit appropriate
message to ensure that the victims learn that
they are not alone.
 Victims can be made aware of places and
institutions where they can seek help.

12.  Government at local level and source areas
should create compulsory high
 quality education, employment opportunities
and income generation programme.
 Government should produce relevant IEC
materials; promote sensitization
programmes for teachers in government
schools, parents and community workers.

13. The following are the most important International Conventions regarding
trafficking of children:
1. The Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989.
2. The Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the
Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography, 2000.
3. The Convention on the Elimination of All forms of Discrimination against
Women, (CEDAW) 1979.
4. The Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons,
Especially Women and Children. 10
5. Declaration on Social and legal principles relating to the Protection and
Welfare of Children, with special reference to Foster placement and
adoption
Nationally and Internationally, 3 December, 1986

14.  Trafficking in human beings, especially
children, is a form of modern day slavery.
 and requires a holistic, multi-sectoral
approach to address the complex dimension
of the problem.
 This problem can only be eradicated by
creating awareness, by doing advocacy
campaigning and by taking strict action
against accused.