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.
  • child trafficker

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