trafficking in human beings [ human trafficking | THB | trade in children | trade in human beings | trade in persons | trafficking in children | trafficking in persons | white slavery | white slave trade | [http ...]

traffic in child pornographic materials

Definition: Problems related to contact or attempted contact with the child's or the other person's breasts or genitals, sexual exposure in close confrontation or attempt to undress or seduce the child, by a substantially older person outside the child's family, either on the basis of this person's position or status or against the will of the child.

child protection [ child abuse | child soldier | ill-treated child | moral protection of children ]

Definition: Conduct disorder, usually occurring in younger children, primarily characterized by markedly defiant, disobedient, disruptive behaviour that does not include delinquent acts or the more extreme forms of aggressive or dissocial behaviour. The disorder requires that the overall criteria for F91.- be met; even severely mischievous or naughty behaviour is not in itself sufficient for diagnosis. Caution should be employed before using this category, especially with older children, because clinically significant conduct disorder will usually be accompanied by dissocial or aggressive behaviour that goes beyond mere defiance, disobe ...[+++]dience, or disruptiveness.

Definition: An ill-defined disorder of uncertain nosological validity. The category is designed to include a group of children with severe mental retardation (IQ below 35) who show major problems in hyperactivity and in attention, as well as stereotyped behaviours. They tend not to benefit from stimulant drugs (unlike those with an IQ in the normal range) and may exhibit a severe dysphoric reaction (sometimes with psychomotor retardation) when given stimulants. In adolescence, the overactivity tends to be replaced by underactivity (a pattern that is not usual in hyperkinetic children with normal intelligence). This syndrome is also often associated with a variety of developmental delays, either specific or global. The extent to which the be ...[+++]havioural pattern is a function of low IQ or of organic brain damage is not known.

child care [ baby-sitting | child minding | children's home | crèche | day nursery | kindergarten | nursery ]

children's services worker | residential support worker (young people) | residential home young people care worker | support worker (young people in care)

Optional Protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography | Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography

In the EU, one in four children live in poverty and are at the greatest risk of harm; children make up one quarter of new asylum seekers every year, 250 000 cases of missing children are reported every year; children make up 15% of identified victims of trafficking, and more than one million children live in institutional care across Europe.

Trafficking in children and social dialogue on the agenda at EU-China meeting

Their main focus will be Children's Rights and, in particular, the question of child trafficking - one of whose main routes passes through China - and poverty, since children are those hit hardest by the economic crisis.

It is intended to prevent and fight crime, particularly terrorism, trafficking in persons, offences against children, drug trafficking, arms trafficking, corruption and fraud.