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People on the move: legal & HR responses: Children

Subjects: Law, Refugee Studies

Children

UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: Article 11: Illicit Transfer and non-Return of Children , Article 21: Adoption, Art 35: Prevention of Abduction, Sale and Trafficking

Abduction 

Adoption

Trafficking

Under the Rome Statute, enslavement is a specified Crime against humanity. A subsequent section explainst that: '"Enslavement" means the exercise of any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership over a person and includes the exercise of such power in the course of trafficking in persons, in particular women and children;'

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Subject searches to use in SOLO

Unaccompanied immigrant children

Children's rights
Emigration and immigration law

Subject searches to use in SOLO

Intercountry adoption - law & legislation
Conflict of laws - adoption 
 Adoption - law & legislation  

Surrogate Mothers - legal status
Surrogate Motherhood  - law & legislation

Suggested subject searches to try in SOLO:

child trafficking victims;
Enslaved children
Child labor
children - crimes against;

Do not neglect the broadest children (international law) as trafficking may feature as a chapter within general overviews.

Below are some examples of books on the topic:

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