Legal Protection of Children as a Preventive Effort on Children Trafficking

Abstract

Trafficking in children is a violation of human rights. Rights of the child who treats the victim only as a commodity purchased, sold, shipped and resold. Earlier child trafficking was associated with prostitution, but in reality, included many other forms such as forced labor and enslavement under the guise of marriage. Because the agents and syndicates of child trafficking are now becoming more organized and have international scope as well. Each country needs to update its legal system in order to punish traffickers and to provide compensation and assistance to victims. Trafficking has included many less qualified migrants that can cause social problems in the community, and for victims often lose their rights and fall into inhuman lives. Regulations governing the legal protection of children as a means of preventing child trafficking whether or not the laws or regulations that have been made are not sufficient in providing legal protection for children because the contents of the law and the regulations have not all covered the issue of children only limited to the public.