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1. Child Abuse And Trafficking
Eknaran Paudel
Roll No.10
Sixth Semester
Child Health

2. What is Child Abuse?
Growing up can be difficult but most children and young people receive
the love and care they need.
But Some children are:
Hurt
Neglected
Used by adults or other children.
Abuse can mean different things to different children, and can happen once
or many times.

3. Child Abuse:
• Any recent act or failure to act on the part of a parent or caretaker, which
results in death, serious physical or emotional harm, sexual abuse, or
exploitation, or an act or failure to act which presents an coming up risk of
serious harm.

4. Physical Abuse
• Physical contact that causes feelings of fear, pain,
injury, other physical suffering, or bodily harm.
• Recognizations:
Unexplained burns, cuts,
Bite marks
Anti-social behavior
Problems in school
Fear of adults

5. Abuse that expresses to
children that they are
worthless, imperfect,
unloved, unwanted, or
only of value when
meeting another’s needs.

6. They may be constantly:
Criticised
Blamed
Sworn and shouted at
Told that other people are better
than they are Rejected by those they
look to for affection
• Recognizations:
Apathy
Depression
Hostility or Stress
Lack of concentration

7. Sexual Abuse
when children are:
Forced or persuaded into sexual acts or situations by others.
Children might be encouraged to look at pornography.
Be harassed by sexual suggestions or comments
Be touched sexually or forced to have sex.

8. • Recognizations:
Involvement of a child in sexual
activity
Knowledge of sexual behavior
inappropriate for the child's age
Contact for sexual purposes such
as fondling
Involvement or exposure to
prostitution and/or pornography

9. Neglect
when parents or others looking after
children do not provide them with:
Proper food
Warmth
Shelter
Clothing
Care
Protection.
medical care
Education
guidance and
 supervision

10. • Recognizations
Unsuitable clothing for weather
Extreme hunger
Apparent lack of supervision
Dirty or unbath
Lack of medical treatment or
medication for a serious illness

11. Rate of child Abuse
• Australia
• It is estimated that close to 50,000
cases of child abuse are reported in
Australia each year.

12. • United States
1 out of 5 teenagers say they have
faced some kind of abuse either in
school or at home. USA deals with
almost 20,000 such cases annually.

13. • Afghanstan
• Annually, more than 18,000 of new
child abuse cases emerge in
Afghanistan.

14. • United Kingdom
• In England alone more than
16,000 cases of child abuse,
neglect and assault were
recorded 2012.

15. • Russsia
• It might come as a surprise to
many but Russia has to deal with
around 10,000 to 11,000 child
abuse cases each year

16. • Zimbawabwe
• In Harare only more than 30,000
cases of child abuse and rape have
been officially recorded during the
past 4 years

17. • Botswana
• It is estimated that around 10,000
cases of child abuse in Botswana
are reported annually.

18. • India
• From 2001 to 2011, India saw a
considerable rise in child abuse
cases. The numbers rose from
2,000 to around 7,500 in 2011.

19. • Bangladesh
• Every year around 3,200 cases of
child abuse are reported and there
are a huge number of cases that
are kept as a secret by child’s
family too.

20. • South Africa
• According to an estimate more
than 3,000 cases of child rape and
assault are reported annually.

21. • Pakistan
• More than 2,500 cases of child
abuse including sexual assault are
reported each year.

22. • Top 5 countries for child sexual
abuse;
• South Africa
• India
• Zimbabwe
• United kingdom
• United states

23. Child Trafficking
A form of human trafficking
The recruitment, transportation, transfer
and harboring of children for the purpose
of exploitation.
Child Trafficking is considered to be the
modern day slavery
There are twenty-seven million humans in
slavery today
• In forms of:
• Sex trafficking,
• Domestic servitude,
• Factory and farm slavery,
• Child soldier slavery.

24. Millions of victims
• 1.2 million children and babies are
trafficked annually worldwide.
• Profit of $9.5billion every year
• 2million children are exploited in
transitional sex trade.

25. Do You Know???????
How Many Children are Sold into
trafficking per minute?
•2 children are sold into trafficking
every minute

26. Nepalese context
• Analyzing the reported cases against child sexual abuse in Nepal Police in
2012/13, 49.64 percent of the total (701) cases filed were associated with
child sexual abuse.
• According to CWIN ,above 3600 cases were reported in every six months
and that includes child labour exploitation, child death, lost children, child
abuse, child sexual abuse, child trafficking, and children in conflict and child
delinquency.

27. The Nepal Police Women’s Cell conducted 185 sex and labor trafficking case
investigations in 2015(trafficking report by US department)
• In 2013, 60 cases of child sexual
abuse received and facilitated by
CWISH for registration

28. Hundreds Of Children In Nepal Are At Risk For
Trafficking After Earthquake.
• An estimated 12,000 Nepalese
children are trafficked into India
every year
• Girls are at risk of getting sold into
prostitution or domestic slavery
and boys taken into forced labor.
• at least 245 children have been
rescued from getting trafficked or
illegally placed in children’s care
homes
(Source;UNICEF ,Jun 22, 2015)

29. Trafficking sector
46%
27%
12%
10%
5%
prostitution
domestic servitude
miscellenous
agriculture
factories

30. Risk Group
20%
80%
gender
male
female
50%50%
Age
Adult
Above 18

31. Causes
• Political instability
• Militarism
• Civil unrest
• Natural disasters in homeland
• Promises of economic opportunities or a better life.

32. Buyers
• People who have money:
• Doctors
• Lawyers
• Accountants
• Gamblers
• Politicians
• High ranking people in our government

33. Impacts of trafficking on victims
• Loss of support
from family and community
• Loss of proper
education
• Obstacles in physical development
• Psychological Traumas

34. Efforts to prevent child trafficking have been concentrated in two main
strategies:
• Prosecuting and punishing traffickers and their associates.
Maintaining laws and regulation through out the country.
Giving information to children and their parents about trafficking.
• Preventing child trafficking also involves..
• Forms of protection available to children.
• Includes protection against other types of abuse
Prevention

35. Legislation
• Nepal also has three domestic laws in place that address girl trafficking and
forced child labor
• Labor Act of 1992
• The Human Trafficking Control Act of Nepal of 1986
• and the National Human Rights Commission Act of 1993

36. • The Human Trafficking Control Act of Nepal of 1986 explicitly criminalizes
the selling and buying of human beings and established provisions for
rehabilitation and integration for victims.
• It defines human trafficking as anything that includes i) selling or buying of
a person for any purpose; ii) forcing someone into prostitution with or
without taking profit; iii) illegal dismembering of human organs and iv)
engaging in prostitution.
• Those found guilty would be sentenced to up 20 years in prison

37. Conclusion
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.”
-Goethe

38. Bibliography:
• Beyrer, Chris. “Global Child Trafficking.”
• Buckley, Mary. “Young and Vulnerable.” The World Today
• CWIN Report
• CWISH Nepal Report
• Dhungana, S. K. (2006). Anti-trafficking challenges in Nepal. Forced Migration Review,(25), 21–22.
• Eleanor Goldberg;The Huffington Post;Hundreds Of Children In Nepal Are At Risk For Trafficking
After Earthquake ;jun 2015
• “Human Trafficking.” Encyclopedia of Race and Racism. Ed. John Moore.
• http://www.insidermonkey.com
• Miller, John R. “Slave Trade.” Harvard International Review
• Tran, Jonathan. “Sold Into Slavery.” Christian Century
• http://www.ungift.org/knowledgehub/index.html

40. THE END !!!!!!!!!!
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