What is the UN doing to prevent child trafficking?
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) requires state parties to take all appropriate measures to prevent the trafficking of children for any purpose, or in any form. In addition, several other international instruments condemn trafficking, including: • The United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (2000) and its protocols. • The Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography (2000). • ILO Convention 182 concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour (1998). • ILO Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking on Persons, especially Women and Children, supplementing the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (2000). The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) is the only United Nations entity focusing on the criminal justice element of human trafficking. In March 2009, the UNODC launched the Blue Heart Campaign against human traffi
