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Child Sex Trafficking in the Tourism Sector in Sri-Lanka

Save the Children; International Organization for Migration  - 2020
Type
Report
Study
Country
Sri Lanka
Region
Asia and the Pacific
Organization
International Organization for Migration (IOM), Save the Children
Year
2020
Authors
D.M. P. Peiris

This qualitative study provided a platform for the victims' voices to be heard as they described their actual experiences. h focused on generating an in-depth understanding on child sex trafficking in the tourism sector in Sri Lanka.

The research aimed to provide new knowledge on main research questions of

  • (a) What are the experiences of child victims of trafficking?
  • (b) How can children who are vulnerable to trafficking be identified and supported early, to prevent them from being trafficked into the sex tourism industry?
  • (c) How can victims of trafficking be identified for timely interventions?

These questions required understanding about children who were particularly vulnerable to trafficking and the push & pull factors such as parental migration etc. that lead children to become victims.