Moving from Words to Actions: Improving the System of Child Trafficking Prevention in Belarus

This research concerns the problem of trafficking in children within Belarus and to other countries from Belarus. In order to understand how the problem of trafficking in children can be solved, in this paper a system of anti-trafficking actions is taken as an object of analysis. The researcher takes the preventive measures of an anti-trafficking framework and analyzes how it is constructed and operates with regard to children, i.e. to what extent do governmental and non-governmental organizations of Belarus, which work on the problem, respect, protect and fulfill the rights of a child. More specifically, the paper strives to analyze whether the anti-trafficking system manages/could manage to incorporate the child rights-based approach, into programming. By this paper, the researcher wants to defend an argument that the national anti-trafficking model (NATM) can be strengthened with regard to children if a child rights-based approach (CRBA) was applied in it.