The African Network for the Prevention and Protection against Child Abuse and Neglect (ANPPCAN) Regional Office based in Nairobi, Kenya has joined other organisations working to reduce and eventually stop child trafficking in Africa. In 2007, ANPPCAN initiated a regional anti-child trafficking project covering four countries in the Eastern Africa region to address the problem. The program works collaboration of ANPPCAN Chapters in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda together with other civil society organisations in the region to fast-track activities/programmes aimed at raising awareness, creating institutions to respond to child trafficking and responding and proving alternative to vicitms of child trafficking at the national and regional level.
This website will be providing you the reader with important updates and developments by ANPPCAN and partners in the fight against child trafficking in the region. ANPPCAN considers child trafficking a serious human rights violation that hinders the development and realisation of other rights of children at the national, sub-regional level and in Africa at large.
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Trafficking of children is one of the most severe violations of human rights in the world today, involving millions of children worldwide. The phenomenon links all countries and regions in a web of international crime. Every year, children are smuggled across borders and sold like commodities. Others are trafficked within their home countries, usually from rural to urban areas. Trafficking violates the human rights guaranteed to children under international law, most notably the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Children’s survival and development are threatened, and their rights to education, health and protection are denied. The lucrative ‘business’ has severely affected children in Africa.
African Network for the Prevention and Protection against Child Abuse and Neglect (ANPPCAN) is a Pan-African child rights organization concerned with the status of children in general and in particular those in need of protection. ANPPCAN envisions a continent free from all manner of child maltreatment. An Anti-Child Trafficking program was started by ANPPCAN in 2007 with an aim of raising awareness to the affected and vulnerable communities in East and Horn of Africa, sensitizing and building the capacities of the service providers towards eliminating child trafficking.
Through the programme, over 3,000 people have sensitized on child trafficking phenomenon and 250 duty bearers trained at border towns. Children as young as 6years have been rescued and re-integrated back into their communities through the programme. The heinous business denies children the opportunity to grow socially, psychologically and even physically. It must be fought, it must stop!