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"Question No 41 by Malcolm Harbour ():
The BBC recently raised the issue of the increasing trade in child trafficking from Africa to Europe. There are thought to be around 10 000 West African children living with strangers in the UK alone, and the trade appears to extend across the European Union. Parents are persuaded that a new and better life awaits their offspring in Europe and send them off to live with distant family and friends in order to receive an education. In reality, children are put to work as domestic slaves, some are beaten and abused – they rarely set foot in a classroom.
The BBC highlighted the apparent ease of bribing West African officials to buy genuine papers to enable children to be taken to Europe.
Can the Commission indicate whether it is aware of the level of this trade and whether it has statistics from the Member States to quantify the problem? Has it considered whether coordinating action can be taken at Community level to bring an end to this appalling practice and confirm that the OECD Convention on Bribery and Corruption, aimed at discouraging the bribing of public officials in third world countries, has been ratified by the Commission and by all the Member States."@en1
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"Subject: African children sold into slavery in Europe"1
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