INTERNATIONAL LABOUR

ORGANISATION AND CHILD

TRAFFICKING
The International Labour Organization (ILO) is a United Nations agency whose mandate is to
promote social justice and promote decent work through the establishment of international labour
standards. It was the first specialized agency of the UN. The ILO has 187 member states.

Child trafficking involves taking children out of their protective environment and exploiting their
vulnerability for exploitation. Although no precise figures are available, the ILO (in 2005)
estimated that 980,000 to 1,225,000 children - boys and girls - are forced to work because of
trafficking. Trafficking in children - within countries, national borders and continents - is closely
linked to the demand for cheap malleable and docile labour in sectors and employers where
working conditions and treatment is a flagrant violation of the human rights of children.

These are characterized by unacceptable environments (the worst forms unconditional) and
dangerous for the health and development of the child (worst forms dangerous). These forms
range from forced labour to homelessness, domestic child labour, commercial sexual
exploitation, and prostitution, drug trafficking, and child soldiers to exploitation or practice.
similiar to slavery in the informal industrial sector. ILO-IPEC works with governments, workers
'and employers' organizations and NGOs, fight against child trafficking, enforce laws and
prosecute traffickers, as well as provide extended protection for children at risk and assist
victims in need. Or services are offered at source, in transit and at destination. ILO-IPEC has
realized a huge amount of research, including action research, on child labor migration and child
trafficking. In this way( ILO) is collaborating with the afore said organisations in order to
eradicate the child trafficking.

BY
Y. AMURTHA,
1ST SEMSTER
DSNLU