Child Victims Of Trafficking

EDM number 172 in 2007-08, proposed by Annette Brooke on 08/11/2007.
Categorised under the topics of Children and families, Crime and Human rights.

That this House acknowledges ECPAT UK and UNICEF's concern that child victims of trafficking, even after they are identified and placed in care, remain a highly vulnerable group within our society, highlighted in the recent report, Rights here, rights now: Recommendations for protecting trafficked children; congratulates the Three Small Steps campaign to Support Child Victims of Trafficking; and calls upon the Government to withdraw the general reservation on immigration and nationality on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, to ratify the Council of Europe's Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings without delay and in order to ensure monitoring and accountability to Parliament to appoint an independent Child Trafficking Rapporteur.

This motion has been signed by a total of 121 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.