The trafficking of children for purposes of sexual exploitation

Contents
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About Molo Songololo
About the funders
Acknowledgments
List of boxes, tables and maps
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Executive Summary 1
Introduction: The world in which children live 4
Chapter 1: Motivations for the research 8
1. Introduction 8
1.1 The lobby for the rights of children 8
1.2 Network against the Sexual Exploitation of Children 8
1.3 Eastern and Southern African Regional Consultation on the Commercial
Sexual Exploitation of Children 9
1.4 The Declaration and Agenda for Action 9
1.5 National Programme of Action 11
1.6 The National Consultative Conference on the Sexual Exploitation of Children 11
2. Conclusion 11
Chapter 2: Conceptual and methodological issues 13
1. Introduction 13
2. Limitations of the research 13
3. Terminology 14
3.1 Who is a child? Defining the “child” 14
3.2 Defining child prostitution 14
3.3 Defining “Trafficking of children for the purposes of sexual exploitation” 16
4. Design and method 16
4.1 Aims and research tasks 16
4.2 The research team 16
4.3 Design and method 16
4.4 Data analysis and interpretation 19
4.4.1 Interviews with children 19
4.4.2 Interviews with organisations 20
4.4.3 Analysis of the literature 20
4.5 Report writing 20
Chapter 3: Review of literature: The trafficking of children for
purposes of sexual exploitation 21
1. Literature surveys 21
1.1 International literature 21
1.2 South African literature 22
1.3 South African print media 23
2. In summary 25
Chapter 4: Factors and trends with regard to the in-country trafficking of
girl children 26
1. Introduction 26
2. South African children exploited in the formal and informal sectors of
the economy: context 26
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