Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part one: Strategic overviews. Child slavery today / Joost Kooijmans and Hans van de Glind. -- Constructing the international legal framework / Trevor Buck and Andrea Nicholson. -- Just out of reach: the challenges of ending the worst forms of child labour / Catherine Turner, Aidan McQuade and Enrique Restoy. -- Child domestic labour: a global concern / Jonathan Blagbrough. -- Child trafficking: a modern form of slavery / Hans van de Glind. -- Clarity and consistency in understanding child exploitation: a UK perspective / Aarti Kapoor. -- A human rights approach to preventing child sex trafficking / Jonathan Todres. -- Child rights, culture and exploitation: UK experiences of child trafficking / Farrah Bokhari and Emma Kelly.

Part two: Themes, issues and case studies. Preventing child trafficking in India: the role of education / Jason Aliperti and Patricia Aliperti. -- Birth registration: a tool for prevention, protection and prosecution / Claire Cody. -- 'Bienvenue chez les grands!': young migrant cigarette vendors in Marseille / Brenda Oude Breuil. -- Child domestic labour: fostering in transition? / Evelyn Omoike. -- Extreme forms of child labour in Turkey / Serdar M. Degirmencioglu, Hakan Acar and Yuksel Baykara Acar. -- Haliya and Kamaiya bonded child labourers in Nepal / Birendra Raj Giri. -- Sex trafficking in Nepal / Padam Simkhada. -- The role of the arts in resisting recruitment as child soldiers and 'wives':experience from Uganda and Nepal / Bill Brookman and Katherine Darton. -- International adoption and child trafficking in Ecuador / Esben Leifsen. -- Child slavery in South and South East Asia / Cecilia Flores Oebanda. -- Routes to child slavery in Central America / Virginia Murillo-Herrera.