Children are exchanged for prostitution, for begging and soliciting, and for work on construction sites, in small shops, in factories and in domestic service labourers on plantations, and in mines. While some of these countries are suppliers of trafficked children, others are receivers, and others are transit countries.
Some countries are both suppliers and receivers.
We are still at the very early stages of defining the issues and generating the data that will help us to better understand these movement patterns. Thus, in the context of extreme poverty, the motive for the transfer of children is often economic. But poverty alone does not explain the prevalence of child trafficking in all countries. Indeed, some of those most heavily involved in child trafficking do not necessarily have the worst social indicators, nor possess the worst cases of poverty. Let me briefly discuss just a few.