The conundrum of combating child trafficking in Zimbabwe
Posted: 11 March, 2025 Filed under: Zororai Nkomo | Tags: abuse of power, child trafficking, Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, desperate jobseekers, emotionally vulnerable, fraud, human trafficking, Palermo Protocol, profit, sexual exploitation, use of force, Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe’s Trafficking in Persons Act 2 Comments
Author: Zororai Nkomo
African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC)
Introduction
In 2014 Zimbabwe domesticated the United Nations (UN) protocol that aims to prevent, suppress, and punish human trafficking, especially of women and children – the Palermo Protocol, through the promulgation and subsequent enactment of the Trafficking in Persons Act of 2014 ( TIP Act). The 2023 and 2024 Trafficking in Person Report shows that Zimbabwe is among Southern African countries still grappling with trafficking of children for labour exploitation. Young people are being exploited in the mining and farming sector. The recent United Nations Global Report on human trafficking revealed that there is a 25% increase in children being exploited globally. The most prevalent forms of trafficking children face are forced labour, sexual exploitation and forced criminality.
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