Legal Protection for Children as Perpetrators of Trafficking In Persons Is Related To Human Rights

ABSTRACT : Children’s rights are part of human rights that must be guaranteed, protected, and fulfilled by parents, families, communities, governments, and the state, including children in conflict with the law. Children as traffickers must still be given special treatment. The problems studied are the background of the occurrence of criminal acts of trafficking in persons committed by children and how the legal protection of children who become traffickers is reviewed from a human rights perspective. The research method used is by using a normative juridical approach with descriptive-analytical research specifications. The factors behind human trafficking include poverty, social structure, economy, and lack of comprehensive education, which mainly comprises science, moral education, religious education, and civic education—special protection for children in conflict with the law, especially those in conflict with the law. Furthermore, concerning children in conflict with the law, especially traffickers, in addition to being given criminal sanctions, guidance is also given to children, which is carried out continuously for the sake of survival, physical, mental and social growth, and development as well as protection from all possibilities that harm children.
KEYWORDS: Children, human rights, human trafficking.