Child Trafficking

Within the cooperation on Children at Risk under the umbrella of the Council of the Baltic Sea States, a programme on Unaccompanied and Trafficked Children in the region of the Baltic Sea States have been set up by the Working Group for Cooperation on Children at Risk, WGCC. This paper examines some of the issues and problems facing the implementation of the programme.

Every year ECPAT publishes reports on the status of action against commercial sexual exploitation of children. The country reports that make up ECPAT's global monitoring provide information and analysis on specific country situations and an assessment of the efforts made, and still needed, to protect children from sexual exploitation in each country.

It was the 4th meeting of National Contact Points that took place in Warsaw from 8th to 9th of May 2007. It was organized by the Council of the Baltic Sea States and was held on the premises of Polish Ministry of Interior and Administration. The meeting provided an excellent opportunity for continuation of the discussion on issues such as unaccompanied and trafficked children in the Baltic Sea region, or mapping cases of trafficking in children.

In March 2007 a two-day conference "Focus on Children in Migration - From a European Research and Method Perspective" was held in Warsaw. The conference, as well as the joint UNHCR - NGO Network meeting, was organized by Save the Children Sweden, Separated Children in Europe Network and the European Network of Masters in Children's Rights.