LuxembourgUNICEF

Topic 1: Child trafficking Committee: UNICEF Name: Michelle Saavedra Period: 0 __Background __ The  trade of humans has been an issue longer than can be dated back. Child trafficking is no different. To be more accurate child trafficking is against human rights and it’s when a child is sold in the black market to be used for whatever the buyer wants them to do. Most buyers make the child suffer years of prostitution or any kind of slavery. With this issue involves other issues of migration of children, the actual selling of them, the removal and transportation of the new formed slaves. The main issue causing the trafficking is poverty. Parents in need of money and in hope of giving their kids a new life sell their child. Most don’t realize that their children are in danger of disease being passed down and the life time of pain they suffer. Today 1 in 12 children are forced in the worst forms of child labor and 97% of them of them came from developing countries. To make matters worse 350 million kids from the ages 5- 17 are forced to work and 130 million of them were involved in some kind of child trafficking. 1.2 million Kids are being forced into labor everyday and we have not yet done all we can do.  __UN Involvement __ The United Nations has made Child Trafficking one of their main concerns. Within the past years the number of kids being sold has gone up. In hope of helping the cause they have made a fund UNICEF which was established in 1965 by the general assembly. In other attempts the UN has established the Declaration On the rights of Children to decrease the number of trafficking cases which are about 50% children. Though UNICEF has helped with Child Trafficking it isn’t the only organization helping the fight for children. Some of those organizations go as followed: CARICOM, ILO, IMO, OAS, WIPO, UNESCO, IOM, and especially NGO.  __Country Policy and Involvement: __ The country of Luxemburg believes that the Trafficking of children is wrong but has not been as out spoken as most countries. Though they do not support it Child Trafficking still occurs because of foreign countries entering in but they have made it illegal to get prostitute lower than the age 18. They have made a committee on the right if the child “ Obudscimite” (ORK) which protects the rights of children in Luxembourg and helps create ideas in order to help them. Also Luxembourg is one of the five countries that ended up keeping their word in giving 0.7 % of "gross domestic product to develpoment aid." Luxembourg has decided those who traffick children will recieve a fine andwill be in prison for 1-5 years. Even though trafficking occurs in Luxembourg the victims are brought into the country and to stop this we have established Criminal Code and the consultvative commision on human rights As the country of luxembourg we believe knowledge will reduse what is already accuring in developing countries and what is happening in our country. We propose that we give more priotory to the fight agains child trafficking by making more committees to spread the knowledge of what is occuring. Also we should try to do what UNICEF had tried to do 30 years ago in outting 0.7% of their income to help those who have been abused when trafficked. This will also give money to those upcoming countries learn more about the harm that is occuring. Also we believe no child forcibly made to prostitute or any other offense caused by trafficking she be put in jail. Though they commited a crime they were forced. The UN should also have more meetings with the developing countries and other countries to work out ways to get this problem solved
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