EXPLORING CHILD TRAFFICKING AND LABOUR ABUSE, IN ETHIOPIA

Abstract

Child labour is a very common global problem. There are an estimated over 250 million in the world, and about 7.5 million child labourers in Ethiopia. Labor trafficking is the recruitment, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services through the use of force or fraud for the purposes of subjection to involuntary servitude or slavery. This study conducted to explore child trafficking and labor abuse in Ethiopia so as to achieve this objective; the researchers used secondary sources of data from written materials having recognition from various institutions and research conducted by individual researchers. The gathered data were analyzed, and presented and qualitatively way of analyzing data techniques. .Child labor in Ethiopia may also suffer from a variety of mental health, physical and psychological disorders, such as anxiety disorders, depression, eating disorders, servitude or the removal of organs and drug abuse. An integrated effort from all sectors to alleviate such a problem should be put in place to tackle child trafficking.