Child trafficking: A crime against children that needs to end today

Preventing and ending child trafficking is a shared responsibility. Children in vulnerable situations are at risk, and if governments make sure they have access to food, shelter, health, education, and justice, trafficking can be prevented. Traffickers need to be brought to justice and pay for their crimes. Children who have been trafficked should be identified, supported, and protected, and never criminalized or detained. Everyone should work together—governments, police, justice systems, companies, educators, communities, and children themselves. Everything done to prevent and respond to child trafficking needs to be informed and shaped by children. Children are part of the solutions.