Tráfico de crianças para exploração sexual: a inocência como a mercadoria mais vulnerável

Abstract

Trafficking in persons is the fastest growing form of organized crime in the world, given its transnational and clandestine aspect, which makes huge profits for the actors involved. In this sense, the present study aims to discuss the trafficking of children for commercial sexual exploitation, since these represent significant estimates within the wide spectrum of victims of this crime. To this end, the research undertaken presents the concept of trafficking in persons accepted as a parameter between states, analyzes the historical debate on the theme of human trafficking within the international community, explains the international institutions that act to prevent and combat child trafficking, and explores the global outlook on children trafficked for sexual exploitation by analyzing the estimates of the victims, the causes that make this scenario conducive, and the condition of trafficking, with a focused perspective on the victim. Thus, through a qualitative methodology of exploratory-descriptive approach, through documental analysis and bibliographic review, this work seeks to institute the understanding of this theme. In this context, factors such as extreme poverty, consumerism, social historical constructions of child sexualization and female objectification, and the marginalization of groups in society are some of the elements that build the risk scenario that violates rights and amplifies vulnerabilities, offering conditions for existence of such crime.