Child Soldiers: Female Victims Of Human Trafficking

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as child soldiers. However, not only children fall victims of trafficking, but also women are the second to be targeted by traffickers. Although, a large portion of these women happens to be young victims who were promised employment, but instead were raped, drugged, confined, battered and intimidated, placed into debt, and have their legal documents removed and were coerced into doing things against their will. Not to mention the man and boys specifically being trafficked for the intention of forced labor, forced begging, and sexual exploitation, and as child soldiers. Despite that man are less identified than women victims of human trafficking since anti-human trafficking legislation around the world focused more on women and children in

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