Specialisation: Anti-Child Trafficking Legislation

Child trafficking is defined as the recruitment, transfer, harbouring or receipt of a child, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over a child, for the purpose of exploitation. Exploitation includes, inter alia, the exploitation of the prostitution of children or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labour or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs.

W Horn Attorneys specialises in anti-child trafficking legislation. This anti-child trafficking legislation is necessary to establish an international and national framework of laws to identify victims of child trafficking, to make child trafficking a criminal offence, to prohibit child trafficking and to integrate trafficked children back into society.