Call for Action on Child Trafficking

World | July 30, 2003, Wednesday // 00:00

Child trafficking should be made a criminal offence in the UK, closing a legal loophole, says Unicef. The UN agency says thousands of children were being trafficked to Britain each year, and human trafficking is the fastest growing business of organised crime. The children are being drawn from a growing number of countries - mainly from West Africa, but also from other African countries, Eastern Europe, Asia and even Jamaica. The issue hit the headlines on Tuesday when 21 people were arrested in the case of "Adam", the Nigerian boy whose torso was found in the river Thames in 2001. Police believe a ring of people trafficked the boy into Britain before he was ritually killed.

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