Countries in the Sub-Saharan Africa, Central
America and the Caribbean have the highest share of children among detected
trafficking victims at 64 and 62 per cent respectively, reports NaijaAgroNet.
According to the United Nations Children Fund
(UNICEF) in its latest study tagged A Child is
a Child, showed that 200,000 unaccompanied children applied for asylum
across around 80 countries in 2015-2016.
Also,
NaijaAgroNet reports that some 100,000 unaccompanied children were apprehended at the United
States (US)-Mexico border between 2015 and 2016.
While
some 170,000 unaccompanied children applied for asylum in Europe in
2015-2016, there were unaccompanied and separated children which accounted for
92 per cent of all children arriving Italy by sea in 2016 and the first months
of 2017.
Children, UNICEF
said, accounted for approximately 28 per cent of trafficking victims globally.
“As much as 20 per cent of smugglers have links
to human trafficking networks,” the study stated.