BNR • Child victims of trafficking increase in EU

BNR • Child victims of trafficking increase in EU:

"The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) released a report alarming that every year EU children fall prey to trafficking for sexual and labour exploitation, adoption and donor extraction. Trafficking affects the entire EU, but insufficient data obscures the true magnitude of the problem. According to the report, in January-November 2008, 131 children in Romania and 51 in Bulgaria fell victim to trafficking. In Italy, 400 out of 1320 minors in immigration camps on the island of Lampedusa have disappeared. In recent years some 50 children in Irish social care centers have disappeared as well. The Agency calls for more effective legislation to combat child trafficking, as well as for better protection and support of child victims."

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