2011 Safe Migration and Children on the Move in Southern Africa

Trafficking of children and women in Southern Africa is associated with poverty, mobility, and human rights violations (abuse and exploitation), particularly sexual offences, becoming a social reality in Southern Africa in general. The work already started on trafficking prevention efforts discourage in a certain extend migration altogether, even for children and women who want migrate inside or to outside the country seeking for better life elsewhere. But there is still much to do.

SANTAC in cooperation with its partners, terre des hommes Germany and Lausanne and Save the Children in Mozambique, it planed to host a three day workshop entitled Safe Migration and Children on the Move in Southern African involving representatives from Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe, to share information on mainstreaming challenges posed by early migration and discussed the basis of a regional Plano of Action to enable tdh and Save the Children partners to improve their contribution on proactive and reactive interventions to respond to the wide array of challenges posed to SADC countries in the context of child migration.