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Africa Regional Conference: Iawj Human Trafficking in Africa: A Regional and Domestic Response
Africa Regional Conference: Iawj Human Trafficking in Africa: A Regional and Domestic Response
CONFERENCE: IAWJ
Human Trafficking in Africa:
A Regional and Domestic
Response
18 OCTOBER 2007
Increased seriousness
Child work Child labour is work Worst Forms of Child
by a child that is Labour
is work that is not
bad for a child’s exploitative,
health, schooling or hazardous or Commercial sexual
development otherwise inappro- exploitation of
priate for the child’s children
Example: age;
reasonable
household chores detrimental to the Children used by
that do not affect child’s schooling; adults to commit
schooling crime
detrimental to the
child’s social,
physical, mental, Child trafficking
spiritual or moral
development. Very hazardous work
Main elements of child trafficking
definition (1)
A child
• is a person under the age of 18 years
• Where the movement of the child was not done with the purpose of
exploitation, this is not child trafficking even where the child still ends
up in exploitation.
– Even where the movement has led to greater vulnerability of the child and
to labour exploitation.
• National laws may provide that migration-related child labour, even
where this falls outside of the definition of child trafficking, is
considered a worst form of child labour.
– Ito Article 3(d) of C182 worst forms include work which, by its nature or the
circumstances in which it is carried out, is likely to harm the health, safety
or morals of the child.
– These kinds of work must be determined by national laws or regulations,
after consultation with the organisations of employers and workers
concerned.