Preventing Stolen Childhoods: How the U.S. Department of Labor is Combating Child Labor Trafficking
Bella’s experience is not rare; it was part of an organized criminal enterprise that systematically trafficked children for forced labor, according to Hounakey, who is now an advocate for trafficking survivors. More than 20 children worked alongside her, forced to provide services, such as braiding, in a hair salon operated by her traffickers. Hounakey’s story is emblematic of the global trafficking of child laborers between countries thousands of miles apart. Yet children are trafficked every day in their own countries as well. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of International Aff...
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