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into contact with individuals who can assist in arranging meetings. In this way, taxi driversact as intermediaries and can prevent the exploitation of children in their communities ifappropriately engaged.Trucking companies have also been implicated in CSEC. In some countries, particularlyin South America, children can be found waiting at petrol stations or truck stops for freetransport from one part of the country to another. These children are highly vulnerable toexploitation as they are transient and once they board a truck, it is very difficult for lawenforcement agencies to trace their whereabouts.Bus and railway companies also have also been targeted by pimps in North America. Theseindividuals wait at intercity bus terminals for young people disembarking and lookingdisplaced. They then approach them offering assistance, such as jobs or accommodation.These young people are then coerced into prostitution or otherwise exploited, sometimeshaving their passports or other personal documentation withheld from them.Some recent projects with respect to the above are worthy of note. In Brazil, the WorldChildhood Foundation (WCF) has developed a nationwide programme with thetransport sector to combat internal trafficking for commercial sexual exploitation. Itincludes 213 private sector actors, including the truck drivers association, association ofdistributors, federation of transport industries, tire producers, logistic associations, andinsurance companies who all signed a Pact that commits them all to a list of rules tocombat trafficking for CSEC on Brazilian roads and highways. The initiative also includesactivities with the Federal Highway Patrol and sensitisation initiatives with truck driversunions, federations, toll companies and transport industry employers organisations suchas the Brazilian National Confederation of Transport (CNT) and its apprenticeship andvocational/professional network (SEST/SENAT). 292Another promising initiative has been undertaken by the transport union of Burkina Faso.The Union has trained its staff, including bus drivers, on what child trafficking is and howand to whom to report cases of child trafficking. Lessons learned from the initiative havebeen shared in regional meetings. 293Finally, ILO-IPEC’s child trafficking project in China (CP-TING), in collaborationwith China’s railway authorities, developed a campaign against trafficking at the time ofChina’s Spring Festival (New Year) when millions of prospective migrant workers are onthe move. 29474|Private Sector Accountability in Combating the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children