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ECPAT International and The Body Shop have launched a global report - Their Protection is in Our Hands – The State of Global Child Trafficking for Sexual Purposes - which reveals key findings on the scale of trafficking of children and young people for sexual purposes around the world. The report provides key information that reveals:
- the current global recession is increasing the vulnerability of children and young at the hands of traffickers
- adults that pay for sex or access commercial sex are fuelling the market and the sexual exploitation of children and young people
- the numbers of children trafficked within their own individual countries is increasing - as opposed to the main focus of anti-trafficking measures and agencies primarily being on cross-border trafficking.
- this exploitation is likely to continue proliferating - the profits generated from trafficking people into forced commercial sex amount to a staggering US$27.8 billion per year. Tragically, almost half of these profits - US$ 13.3 billion - are made from children trafficked into or within industrialised countries. Human trafficking is the third largest international criminal activity after the illegal drugs and arms trades.
- contrary to perceptions, evidence suggests the traffickers are likely to come from the same ethnic or national background as the victim - in some cases neighbours or extended family members may be involved.
More information – including fact sheets with current overviews on the trafficking of children for sexual purposes for 45 countries – can be found at: http://www.ecpat.net/TBS/en/about_campaign.html.
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