Children are 4 times more likely to be trafficked for labor rather than sex.
Children who are trafficked for labor purposes might be removed from their families and forced to perform domestic household services, or work in factories or agriculture.
Though millions of children are trafficked, there is a much larger number of children involved in child labor that is not considered trafficking.
There are an estimated 168 million child laborers around the world, with around half of them participating in what is known as “hazardous work” – work that endangers the child’s physical, emotional, or social well-being.