child trafficking

                                       CHILD TRAFFICKING

Highlighting on yet another issue, I would like up to come with some facts and lines on child trafficking.

We see a lot of movies, don’t we? And they give us many messages in their course of screening.  But what we end up with is a sight of a happy ending, some interesting fight scenes or in some other words entertainment! Entertainment! And entertainment! . Does anyone remember the scene of female child trafficking form the super hit movie of Agneepath?. I doubt if anyone was much touched by it. It had a great message indirectly to rise up against the evil of women trafficking. Yet another scene strokes my mind. It was from movie Bodyguard. It had a scene showing the transport of unaware girls being sent to a different country. And who won’t remember the train scene of movie Ghajini in which the girl had to die just because she stood up for the cause of some little girls against trafficking.  Again the question falls on us, what did we extract from such a display?

Though Trafficking in simple words is defined as "recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt" of a child for the purpose of exploitation in the UN protocols, child trafficking now is typically identified beyond these parameters. The statistics say that 1.2 million children are trafficked every year. Child trafficking can be potentially seen as a major human right violation act.

The objective of child trafficking is often forced child labor. Estimates say that 150 million children aged 5 to 14 in developing countries are involved in child labor. 60% of children within this number are involved in agriculture sector. Yet another objective of child trafficking is sexual exploitation. Sexual exploitation involves activities of sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography. Another study says that there are as many as 1.8 million children sexually trafficked worldwide. Other objectives that come in light are child begging, usage of children in drug trades and usage of children in armed forces.. In India the situation is so worse that we don’t even have a count or check on children who are trafficked for the purpose of begging. Even then the studies say that they are 33% of total children trafficked. Rio de janeiro, Brazil has most of its children trafficked engaged in drug trades.

I think the situation is pretty much clear to us now. We need to enact fast and energetically, that’s it ! not much to explain or direct anyone.