World Day against Child Labour

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Cross Border Trafficking Withdrawal of the
Trafficked Children
A presentation by Anil Raghuvanshi International
Labour Organization
South Asia Sub-regional Cross Border Policy
Dialogue Seminar on Human Trafficking Birgunj,
Nepal (8-9 May 2003)
STOP Child Trafficking
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• Trafficking is a process which leads to sexual
  and/or labour exploitation.

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Cross Border Trafficking Withdrawal of the
Trafficked Children
Destinations

• In-country
• Cross-border
• Other Countries

Middle East
Hong
Kong
Middle East
Internal Trafficking
Middle East
Middle East
External Trafficking
STOP Child Trafficking
Middle East
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After Trafficking

• Sexual Exploitation

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After Trafficking

• Match-sticks Fire-cracker Factory Workers

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After Trafficking

• Construction Workers

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Other Areas

• Circus mostly girls
• Embroidery factories mostly boys
• Domestic work mostly boys
• Organ transplant

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Rescue or Withdrawal?

• RESCUE the act of saving somebody/something from
  a dangerous or difficult situation
• WITHDRAW to move somebody/something back or away
  from a place or situation

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• Withdrawal

• Removal of children (from the exploitative and
  hazardous forms of child labour
• Rehabilitation (shelter, food, medical, legal,
  psychosocial counselling support, education,
  training etc)
• Reintegration

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Withdrawal Process

• Information about the child
• Communication to parents
• Identification of the child
• Consent (from the parents/VDC)
• Police raid
• Remand homes
• Court procedure
• Repatriation
• Rehabilitation Care facilities
• Reintegration

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Rights-based Withdrawal

• All Children have rights.
• Trafficked Children are not criminals.
• Children should be treated well.
• They should be allowed to take their belongings
  with them.
• Psychosocial counseling
• Rights to privacy
• Protection homes NOT the remand homes
• Involvement of special police
• Responsibilities of the host/transit country

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Next Steps

• Study on the withdrawal process/mechanism
• Identification of capacity building needs
• Capacity building of law enforcement agencies,
  institutions organizations
• Inter-country Government/NGO level
  coordination and networking
• Withdrawal
• Repatriation
• Rehabilitation (including care and support
  facilities)
• Social Reintegration

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Roles and Responsibilities

• Government
• Police
• Courts
• Human Rights Organizations
• Non-Governmental Organizations
• Workers Association
• Law Enforcement Agencies
• Media