child trafficking

English

Noun

child trafficking (uncountable)

1. A form of human trafficking that involves the kidnapping of a child for purposes of exploitation.

   Hypernym: human trafficking

   • 2005, International Labour Office, Human Trafficking and Forced Labour Exploitation, page 24:

     This would make the distinction extremely delicate in some cases between child trafficking and migration for employment of adolescents above the minimum working age.

   • 2017, Pete Fussey, ‎Paddy Rawlinson, Child Trafficking in the EU, page 45:

     Stressing the link between 'child trafficking' and the sex industry operates to underscore the profoundly damaging consequences of 'trafficking' and to unequivocally construct those involved as either victims or villains.

   • 2024, Suresh Kumar, Child Trafficking: The Fight for Freedom:

     He wants child trafficking survivors to be included in organisations fighting against the crime, and to participate in every committee that government forms.

Related terms

• child trafficker

Translations

Translations

• Dutch: kinderhandel (nl) m
• Finnish: lapsikauppa
• French: trafic d’enfants m
• German: Kinderhandel (de) m
• Italian: traffico di minorenni m
• Polish: handel dziećmi m