Meanings
- uncountableA form of human trafficking that involves the kidnapping of a child for purposes of exploitation.
He wants child trafficking survivors to be included in organisations fighting against the crime, and to participate in every committee that government forms.
2024, Suresh Kumar, Child Trafficking: The Fight for Freedom2 more examples
This would make the distinction extremely delicate in some cases between child trafficking and migration for employment of adolescents above the minimum working age.
2005, International Labour Office, Human Trafficking and Forced Labour Exploitation, page 24Stressing the link between 'child trafficking' and the sex industry operates to underscore the profoundly damaging consequences of 'trafficking' and to unequivocally construct those involved as either victims or villains.
2017, Pete Fussey, Paddy Rawlinson, Child Trafficking in the EU, page 45
Translations
Dutch kinderhandel
- kinderhandelTranslations
Finnish lapsikauppa
- lapsikauppaTranslations
French trafic d'enfants
- trafic d'enfantsTranslations
German Kinderhandel
- KinderhandelTranslations
Italian traffico di minorenni
- traffico di minorenniTranslations
Polish handel dziećmi
- handel dziećmiTranslations
Spanish tráfico de menores
- tráfico de menoresTranslations
Swahili biashara haramu ya watoto
- biashara haramu ya watotoTranslations
Cite this entry
child trafficking. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/child%20trafficking
“child trafficking.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/child%20trafficking. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “child trafficking,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/child%20trafficking.
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