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To stop trade
in children
Trade in children
- one of the worst forms of child labour in which is
involved more than one million children worldwide. Trade in
children means their moving from one place in another by
force, compulsion or a deceit with the purpose economic and
sexual exploitation. Under the international laws this is a
crime.
Factors which promote trade in people: poverty, political
instability, natural cataclysms, lack of formation, social
and economic problems in the country. Any State not insured
from the given problem also cannot pretend, that it it does
not concern.
Spheres in which
child labour is used:
- Sexual exploitation;
- Transfer of child body organs for compensation;
- Use of the child on forced hard labour;
- Children’s pornography.
In the global
market of sexual services demand for children raises because
of the increasing number of cases of disease by AIDS and a
HIV among adult prostitutes. The special representative of
OSCE Helga Konrad has declared:
“One of the reasons is certainly, fear of AIDS and a HIV and
belief that if in the world of sexual services to use
children it would be more safe, that is itself monstrous
delirium, and also dreadful and terrible infringement of the
rights and advantages of the person “.
Many children are
on sale for work on farms and mines, others forced to be
engaged in begging and involved in fine crimes. There is a
network of international trade in children for sex in which
trade in the alive goods is made out almost as the usual
transaction. Certainly, dealers under laws practically from
all countries can be brought to court. But usually such
deals is not moving because of lack of proofs and that the
public opinion prefers to shut eyes to an acuteness of a
problem.
In overwhelming majority of cases, to bring dealers to trial
is practically impossible. Legal slave-trade definitions are
not adequate, and parents simply speak, that they have
charged children to the friends that those accompanied with
them on a trip or have taken to itself to live.
In some countries
the legislation does not provide any punishment even for the
most severe labour operation of children but even if all the
countries ratify the new agreement of the International
organization of the work, forbidding the most severe forms
of operation, not wadded national laws and political will of
leaders not much can be made in a field of struggle against
children’s prostitution and back-breaking toil. People will
involuntarily continue to maintain members of own family,
and the rights of the child will remain simple tradition.
In the report of
children’s fund of UNICEF the analysis of a phenomenon of
trade by children and various forms of children’s operation
is spent, thus the special attention is paid to this problem
in England.
Approximately from 8000 up to 10000 thousand children are
violently kept in the Great Britain. Many of them are
exposed to operation and humiliations, and anybody at all
does not suspect, that they are in the country.
In the report it
is marked, that hundreds revealed cases of trade people is
the only top of an iceberg. Every year thousand children are
forwarded to the Great Britain, basically from the countries
of the Western Africa, the East Europe and Asia, however the
scale of a problem is hidden by virtue of specificity of a
crime and lack of statistics of law enforcement bodies.
“Trade in
children is a rough infringement of the rights of the child
and fast-growing criminal business as - it is interfaced to
smaller risk than, say, drug traffic” - speaks executive
director of the British branch of UNICEF David Bull.
A lot of years
working with victims of trade in people, the Feministic
League has collided that often victims become
children-orphans or children from unsuccessful families. We
carry these children to group of the raised risk. When
children remain without care of parents, they become people
more attractive to dealers as after the termination of a
boarding school they appear in social isolation. Graduates
of children’s establishments, as a rule, have no vitally
important skills and badly are guided in realities of a life
outside places of establishments in which they were brought
up. They have nobody to consult at decision-making on
departure abroad or at the device for work on the Native
land. In case of disappearance of that person, nobody will
search for it. The facts of the increasing involving in
trade of people, children-orphans, especially who has mental
problems, confirm colleagues from International the
organizations on Migration in Kazakhstan, and also
nongovernmental the organizations of our International
network.
Trade in children
is the most monstrous, cynical display of trade by the alive
goods. Often it occurs through the International adoption
and adrogation citizens from the developed countries. The
world was flown with news about death of the Russian child
by hand the foster mother in America. Unfortunately, it not
a single instance. Often agencies on adoptions conclude the
contract when the child was not born yet with the woman.
Together with it, there are more than children from
defective families also become victims of trade in people.
What pushes out them from family? Absence of mutual
understanding, presence of psychological, physical violence
over families, serve as the powerful pushing out factor for
victims of trade in people. Children escape from a
hopelessness from family in hope for favorable changes, and
get - in a hell of modern slavery.
Prominent aspect
of work on prevention of trade by children are:
а/ Increase of a level of knowledge of a society about the
given crime.
б/ Strengthening of global partner attitudes
в/ Strengthening law enforcement measures at a national
level.
г/ Introductions of social programs of rehabilitation of
victims.
The literature:
1. The IOT convention.
2. The Optional protocol about the rights of the child,
concerning trade in children, children’s prostitution and a
children’s pornography. |
