Bøger af Koffi Justin Kouassi

Studies carried out on the situation of children in Côte d'Ivoire show that many children are victims of violence and all kinds of abuse, mortgaging their future, their development and their physical and psychological health. Trafficking, exploitation and child labor figure prominently among the abuses identified. This issue has rightly become the focal point of the international and national community's fight to commit all States to "a future without child labor". In other words, the option for the effective abolition of children's participation in the labor market remains an imperative. The risks to which children are exposed on a daily basis in agriculture, trade, domestic service, transport, mining and many other sectors call for urgent and innovative action. For decades, programs to combat the phenomenon have been drawn up in agreement with governments, NGOs and international bodies. But the phenomenon persists. Hence the importance of evaluating these actions to measure their impact on the phenomenon.

The drafting of this document allows us to address a problem that the world is facing today: human trafficking, especially of children. We must be aware of the disastrous consequences of this phenomenon which has become a recurrent problem today. Child trafficking is broadly defined as "the illicit and clandestine movement of people across national and international borders largely from developing countries and some countries with economies in transition, with the ultimate goal of forcing the victim into situations of sexual or economic exploitation for the benefit of recruiters, traffickers as well as other illegal trafficking activities such as forced domestic labor, false marriages, clandestine employment and false adoptions". This evil which constitutes one of the major plagues of the world and in particular of Africa, is posed today like a true brake with the development of the Ivory Coast.