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When child traffickers work across West Africa’s borders, activists need help to do the same

Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone share many things – including a problem of child trafficking. Local organisations can stop it if they come together.

When child traffickers work across West Africa’s borders, activists need help to do the same
Teaching children their rights: Defence for Children International-Sierra Leone working in a school | Israel Williams, Majority World for The Fund for Global Human Rights. All rights reserved.
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This article is part of an editorial partnership with the Fund for Global Human Rights.

A fifteen-year-old girl gets pregnant and runs away from her highly religious family in Guinea to escape punishment. She ends up in the hands of traffickers and on the streets of Freetown, Sierra Leone, engaged in the sex trade. She is arrested and charged with loitering by the police and put behind bars.