Child trafficking and legal protection of children: An analysis in Bangladesh perspective

Abstract

Child trafficking is a common incident in Bangladeshi society. It is increasing day by day. Both male and female children are trafficked. Survivors often report feeling shame. The children who are being trafficked are facing mental, physical and health issues. Children should be protected by law, but existing laws are insufficient to ensure proper protection; the Government should be more concerned and strict about the legislation to ensure proper justice to the victim of child trafficking. The location of our country is suitable for trafficking because it is the heart gulf region which is connected to South Asia trafficker transfer the victim very easily. Many people of our country lives in extreme poverty and to get-ride of this situation people are willing to have any job opportunity and the trafficker use this to their advantage and promise to those people to give good career to aboard and by this people fall into the trick of the traffickers. In many families, the head of the house are illiterate or have low education and they do not even watch their children the children become vulnerable to trafficking as they do not any guidelines from their head of the house. NGO plays a constructive role by raising awareness and rescuing rehabilitation. We also have many international laws to prevent trafficking and the Act related to the crime. With the help of SAARC, our country has committed to preventing child trafficking. The U.S. introduced some preventive action to combat trafficking. Bangladesh should follow those actions to prevent trafficking.