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Article: Trading in human misery: the trafficking of children is a growing problem in Yemen, with immoral and unprincipled "dealers" making money out of smuggling children across the border into remote areas of Saudi Arabia.(Current Affairs)
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- The Middle East
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- March 1, 2005
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THE INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANISATION (ILO) reports that more than 1.2m children are trafficked every year worldwide, many of them ending up being used as forced labour or for sexual exploitation. The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has warned that people trafficking, mostly of women and children, is a serious and escalating problem, as the authorities in Yemen have discovered.
Awareness of children being trafficked out of Yemen has been growing over the last year, and the government and various aid organisations have recently acknowledged it as a problem that unscrupulous "traders" have turned into a lucrative business, often with the support of ...