UNIT 1 CHILD WELFARE

CHILD TRAFFICKING
ILO, UNICEF and the Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking (UN.GIFT) launched the
‘Training manual to fight trafficking in children for labour, sexual and other forms of
exploitation’ on 15 September 2009. It is one of the few manuals on trafficking that
specifically focuses on children, includes a focus on labour issues, and is geared towards
training. It is comprised of textbooks for self study and an exercise book with a menu of
assignment options that trainers can choose from for tailor-made training courses. It also
includes a facilitators’ guide for use by those facilitating training. The manual addresses
the needs of governments; workers’ and employers’ organizations; and NGOs and
international agencies working at the policy and outreach level. […]
Trafficking in children is a global problem affecting large numbers of children. Some
estimates have as many as 1.2 million children being trafficked every year. There is a
demand for trafficked children as cheap labour or for sexual exploitation. Children and
their families are often unaware of the dangers of trafficking, believing that better
employment and lives lie in other countries.
Child trafficking is lucrative and linked with criminal activity and corruption. It is often
hidden and hard to address. Trafficking always violates the child’s right to grow up in a
family environment. In addition, children who have been trafficked face a range of
dangers, including violence and sexual abuse. Trafficked children are even arrested and
detained as illegal aliens.
Some facts:
- UNICEF estimates that 1,000 to 1,500 Guatemalan babies and children are trafficked
each year for adoption by couples in North America and Europe.
- Girls as young as 13 (mainly from Asia and Eastern Europe) are trafficked as “mail-order
brides.” In most cases these girls and women are powerless and isolated and at great risk
of violence.
- Large numbers of children are being trafficked in West and Central Africa,
mainly for domestic work but also for sexual exploitation and to work in shops or on
farms. Nearly 90 per cent of these trafficked domestic workers are girls.
- Children from Togo, Mali, Burkina Faso and Ghana are trafficked to Nigeria, Ivory Coast,
Cameroon and Gabon. Children are trafficked both in and out of Benin and Nigeria. Some
children are sent as far away as the Middle East and Europe.

UNICEF

http://www.unicef.org/protection/index_exploitation.html
 GLOSSARY

to fight (fought, fought) = combatir tailor-made = heccho a su medida

exploitation = sufrimiento
to focus on = concentrarse en
geared towards = orientado a
comprised of = compuesto de
to choose (chose, chosen) = elegir
to address = occuparse de
to affect = afectar
cheap = a bajo costo, barato
environment = ambiente
illegal alien = inmigrante clandestino

LANGUAGE NOTES
Practice. Give your own example of sentences using the vocabulary words.
- The International Labour Organisation (ILO) is responsible for drawing up and
overseeing international labour standards. The term Non Governmental
Organisations (NGO) is normally used to refer to organisations that do not form
part of the government and are not conventional for-profit business.

- Outreach (asistencia). Example: The outreach of the police is slow.

Your example: cops are here to figth violence
- Other similar words are output, outbreak, outcome: (resultados). Example: The
output is not important.
- Your example:have to choose the colors of my dress
- To grow up is an intransitive verb (crecer, madurar): Example: I grew up in
England before moving to Greece.
Your example:grew up after I had a college wagon
- The noun grown-up is synonymous of adult: (persona adulta). Example: Grown-
ups should protect vulnerable children from exploitation.
Your example:my mon saidwhq would be an adult when he was responsible
To grow (cultivar) is a transitive verb. Example: He grows tomatoes in his
garden.
Your example:I going to grow some potatoes in my garde
Alien (persona clandestina o ilegal en un país) is a legal term referring to a
person who is not a citizen of the countryin which they live. Example: Resident
aliens are officially permit ted to live in the country and illegal aliens live in the
country unlawfully.
Your example:alis granpha is alien in colombia
 A mail-order bride (novia por correo o por encargue) is a woman brought from
another country to be married, usually in return for payment to a company that
makes such arrangements.

COMPREHENSION

Say whether the following statements are True or False.

1. true The manual is designed to help people combat trafficking.
2.false The manual is the first to talk about child trafficking.
3 true The manual is structured to train different types of people.
4 true Families are informed about the dangers of sending children to other countries.
5. false 1.2 million girls are trafficked every year.

VOCABULARY

Exercise 1. Match the words from the text in column A to their synonyms in column B.

A B
1 c lucrative a. international
2. e domestic b. weak
3 a. global c. profitable
4 b powerless d. work
5 d labour e. home

Exercise 2. Complete the sentences with the appropriate word.

crimes exploitation molester pornography victims

1. Child/Human Trafficking is one of the fastest growing exploitation in the world.

2. Child victims is a serious problem in the United States right
now.
3. The global market of child trafficking at over $12 billion a year with over
1.2 million child crimes
4. 300,000 children in the U.S. are at risk every year for commercial sexual
molester
5. An average serial child pornography may have as many as 400 victims in his lifetime.

Exercise 3. The construction as….as is used to measure and compare things that are of
similar proportion. Use the expressions in the box to complete the sentences.

as soon as as little as as many as

as long as as much as

1. Save the Children means that as much as 1 million children may have been
displaced because of the earthquake.
2. Social services will help abandoned children as long as they have
sufficient funding.
3. A human trafficker can earn as many as20 times what he or she paid for a child.
4. Children in Haiti are being sold for as little as 76 pence each.
5. Vulnerable children need to be given independent guardians as soon as
possible.