ILO Sub-Regional Office for Southern Africa, Harare

Child Trafficking in SADC Countries. The Need for a Regional Response

This report on child trafficking represents an effort to collate the available information on child trafficking in Southern Africa with a view to highlighting a number of policy options on how to create a regional legislative and policy framework to address the issue. The report examines information regarding the incidences of trafficking in Southern Africa, while noting that available information is too scarce to allow for substantive conclusions regarding the exact scope and nature of trafficking in the region. Nonetheless, the information available certainly illustrates that trafficking of children is a problem that deserves urgent attention in a manner that ensures a constructive approach to its often transnational nature.