单词 | child trafficking |
释义 | > as lemmaschild trafficking child trafficking n. trade in or procurement of children for the purposes of exploitation; the action or practice of illicitly, forcibly, or fraudulently relocating children from one country or area to another, typically in order to exploit them for forced labour, prostitution, etc.; cf. human trafficking n. at human adj. and n. Compounds 1b. ΚΠ 1887 Manitoba Daily Free Press 16 Aug. The investigating committee appointed by the White Cross guild to inquire into the charges of child trafficking and juvenile prostitution. 1982 Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 16 Nov. About 3,000 children..were smuggled into Hong Kong since October 1981 when the first child trafficking case was discovered. 2010 New Yorker 10 May 50/3 In Haiti.., a culturally accepted form of child trafficking already exists. Some poor parents sell the children to affluent Haitians as indentured servants. < as lemmas |
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