16 April 2008
Luanda — The director of National Institute of Children (INAC), Eufrazina Gomes Maiato, Wednesday in Luanda said that children trafficking is not only a danger for them and their families, but also for the whole society.
According to Eufrazina Maiato, who was speaking on Wednesday at a workshop on "Children trafficking in Angola", this is a concerning fact in the country, for the shapes it taking, as it is done in secret.
"We have only noticed ten cases, but there are children who have gone out of sight and until now we do not have any signs of them", revealed the director of INAC, while addressing the forum.
She stressed that one of the objectives of this meeting is to warn the people who have given their children to other peoples due to lack of conditions.
However, the executive director of the Southern African Regional Network against Trafficking and Abuse of Children (SANTAC), Margarida Guitunga, said that many teenagers have been taken with false promises of better opportunities of jobs in other countries.
"Mozambique is the source transit to take children to other countries. Angola has a very big border and it facilitates the passage of traffickers", she said.
The forum has debated themes concerning "Children sexual exploitation for commercial purposes", "Hard labour", "Incentive to the world of drugs, robberies, slavery" and "Removal of body parts".
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