Human Trafficking/Child Soldiers
Edwina Hay
Dr. Rufus E. Robinson
Contemporary International Problems-POL 300002043
March 18, 2011

Human Trafficking/Child Soldiers
Human trafficking has attracted the attention of the international community and individual states on more than one occasion. Trafficking consists of the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons by means of threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation. Exploitation shall include, at a minimum, the exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labor or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal or organs (Human Trafficking, 2006).
Many types of human trafficking and forms of exploitation exist and are constantly changing. The key types of human trafficking and forms of exploitation include sexual exploitation, labor exploitation of children, and exploitation for the purpose of begging. Sexual exploitation is generally considered to be the primary form of human trafficking offenses. Russia’s sex trade has spread; the sex trade industry currently employs 150,000 women (Human Trafficking, 2006). Sexual exploitation particularly affects women and children. They are coerced into prostitution.
Child trafficking is a particularly grave form of child labor exploitation. Apart from their use in the sex industry and the production of pornography, the labor of children trafficked from poor regions and countries are frequently exploited in farming and construction. Begging is another common form of child exploitation. Many employers use child labor due to