More than a million children are trafficked every year, more than 100,000 every month. Cases are reported regularly in Western Europe and North America, as well as throughout Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America. These startling facts give some sense of the seriousness of the subject of a new study about child trafficking in today’s world, published by Terre des Hommes on Tuesday, 26 May 2004

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Geneva, 12th December 2003. Even at the beginning of the 21st Century, human beings are being trafficked like goods and commodities. Child trafficking in particular has developed into a flourishing business in which approximately more than one million young boys and girls become victims every year.

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Geneva, June 12, 2003 erre des Hommes runs an international campaign to stop child trafficking through public awareness, lobby work to change the law and programmes to care for trafficked children. A visible reduction of child trafficking between Albania and Greece has already been noted.

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Geneva, November 21st, 2002 - The Prize is awarded by the French Consultative Commission on Human Rights and will be given in Paris by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs on December 19. Terre des Hommes is rewarded for its fight against impunity regarding trafficking of children between Albania and Greece.

Brussels, September 20, 2002 Terre des Hommes welcomes the concrete and detailed measures adopted at Brussels today by the European Conference to prevent and fight the trafficking of human beings. The international organisation in favour of children in need is well aware, however, that the financing and the application of these measures depend very much on the determination of the States and of the European Union to implement them.

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Maputo, June 16, 2002 - A magnificent start for the Southern African Campaign against Child Abuse and Child Trafficking that has been co-ordinated by FDC, the Mozambican Foundation of Community Development:
The launch was joined by participants from most of the Southern African countries, namely Angola, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Mozambique, who are partners in this campaign initiated by
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5.000 Children from Maputo and the surrounding province at 8:00 in the morning started in front of the Mozambican National Assembly for a one hour march which led them through the city centre to the Independence square.

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Osnabrück, 18. January 2002 - The Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child “concerning child trafficking, child prostitution and child pornography” will come into force today. The protocol is now legally binding for the signatory nations after Romania’s ratification of the protocol as the obligatory tenth nation in October. A UN resolution dating from the year 1994 that called for more concrete international measures to protect children in these areas forms the background of the document. Germany has signed this optional protocol but has not adopted it as yet.

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Read also the interview with the South African Archbishop and Nobel Prize Winner Desmond Tutu, Patron of the Regional Campaign against Child Abuse and Child Traffcking Download als PDF

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