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Dear united nations. Letter about child trafficking.  

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English- Persuasive writing. Dear United Nations For many children around the world, their early years are far from safe, a supportive environment they require to give them the best possible start in life is non-existent. As well as the threats from poverty, disease, violence and war, children face commercial exploitation by adults who deny them their fundamental rights to protection. Some 1.2 million children are now estimated by you (the UN) to be trafficked annually. Around 246 million children are also thought to be involved in child labour and an estimated two million children are currently enslaved in the global commercial sex trade. Everyday millions of children are exploited, abused, or are victims of violence. Bought and sold like commodities, children are forced to be soldiers, prostitutes, sweatshop workers, and servants, and the government sit around making predictions about child exploitation, but not doing anything to change it. Poverty, conflict, HIV/AIDS, urbanisation and...

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