The Causes and Consequences of Children Trafficking

...Trafficking in Children has involved into one of the most outrageous features of modern migration and become a lucrative transactional commodity for the purpose of labour and sexual exploitation at global level. It is a persistent problem in Ethiopia but there is a paucity of up-to-date data pertinent to its causes and consequences. ...the study finding revealed that the issue of internal trafficking is a longstanding and deep rooted problem in Gondar Town that is interwoven with the two extremes' (place of origin and destination)because of pushing and puling factors.While it resulted in in different negative consequences on children lives, is yet need to be addressed. Therefore, it needs a practical intervention and commitment as well as integrated stakeholders' effort (holistic approach) to mitigate the problem by focusing on poverty reduction, capacity building harnessing with launching awareness raising campaign on concerned bodies...

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Tadesse Mekonnen has obtained his M.A in Sociology in December 2010 and his M.A in Urban Management in July, 2011. Since then he had worked in Governmental Bureau in conducting project and research in the fields of Sociology and Management. Now He is working in the posion of Project officer in Children Support and Service Organization, in Ethiopia.