Creating awareness: The media and other multiplicators and thereby the whole population should be sensitised to the problem of child trafficking through information and public relations work and called upon to commit themselves to this cause.
Advocacy at the statute level: Child trafficking violates fundamental human rights and should be fundamentally recognised as a crime. The States are called upon to ratify the existing conventions and protocols and to enact corresponding laws – for instance, the UN-Convention on the Rights of the Child, Convention 182 of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) on the worst forms of child labour and the Hague Convention on the regulation of intercountry adoptions. The objective is to achieve conformity between these internationally recognised conventions on the protection of children and the respective national administration of justice. The fight against child trafficking should be given the same weighting as, for instance, the fight against international white-collar crime.
In order to document the dimensions of child trafficking, national and international registration offices are required. Registration of cases enables missing children to be found and helps in a more targeted approach in the fight against child trafficking.
Victims of child trafficking who are forced into illegal activities should not be looked upon as criminals. They need legal security, for instance, by providing extensive witness protection measures and protection from deportation and they should also be compensated for the injustice they have suffered.
Project work: Up until now there has been hardly any offer of help for the victims of child trafficking. Hence a part of the campaign work will be focussed on arranging for such projects, returning the victims of child trafficking to their country of origin and promoting measures to protect the children. The International Campaign aim is to point out that child trafficking is not fate but rather a reversible phenomenon.
