Child traffic rivals drugs and arms.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- Illegal trafficking of children is an industry that is believed to generate $10 billion a year, UNICEF UNICEF (y  `nĭsĕf'), the United Nations Children's Fund, an affiliated agency of the United Nations. Executive Director Carol
Bellamy Carol Bellamy, (born January 14 1942), has been Director of the United States Peace Corps, Executive Director of UNICEF, and President and CEO of World Learning. Education and Peace Corps Service stated as she urged countries around the world to do more to
stop trade, which rivals the drug and arms trade.
The children are exploited as domestics, factory workers, and in the sex commerce. Countries can "make decisions that ensure the protection of children, or they can make decisions that leave children vulnerable to being exploited and abused," she added. |
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