Child trafficking
Guidelines on the design of direct action strategies to combat commercial sexual exploitation of children
Combating commercial sexual exploitation of children
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International Labour Organization , 2007
These guidelines offer a project planning tool for designing strategies of an International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) action programme to combat commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC). It aims to act as a simple toolkit to help project designers in selecting or devising the most appropriate strategies and actions at both the national and community level.
National level strategies include:
- awareness-raising to reduce public tolerance and demand for CSEC
- campaigning for legislative changes for stricter sanctions of exploiters
- better protection of victims-survivors and improvement of law enforcement mechanisms
- strengthening capacity of law enforcement bodies
- cooperation and dialogues amongst institutions.
Community level strategies include:
- prevention in communities at risk through awareness education
- socio-economic and educational support to children and families
- prevention in communities with CSEC through cooperation with the concerned sectors and awareness raising campaign
- direct assistance to victims survivors by means of outreach, withdrawal, rehabilitation, reintegration and family empowerment.
