THE ECONOMIC POSITION OF FAMILY AND ITS RELATION WITH CHILD TRAFFICKING: A STUDY FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF POLICY ANALYST AND EXPERTS

The prevalence of child trafficking reflects the omnipresent poverty, deterioration of institutional norms, lack of relevant laws and deficient implementation in both the sending communities and receiving communities (ILO, 2002). However, most of the countries respond to the problem of child trafficking from legal perspective alone. They declare it an act of violence and focus on prosecuting the offenders. Such approach is limited in its scope as it ignores to probe into the underlying factors of the problem and hence, lacks the appropriate and long term effective strategy of its resolution. The issue of child trafficking is rooted in the multidimensional factors associated with the socio-economic, political, cultural, and educational aspects (Broderick, 2005; Limanowska, 2005). It is inevitable to explore and analyze these factors for comprehensive and everlasting solution of the problem. In this context, the present study is designed to investigate the economic factors associated with child trafficking. The study is based on survey carried out in Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. A sample of 392 respondents is selected through a stratified random sampling technique from the list of lawyers, crime reporters, and academicians