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While there are efforts to aid child soldiers and slaves in conflicts around the world, the Mexican drug insurgency's effects on children have been largely ignored. At least thirty thousand [...]

Child trafficking: Over the past decade, UNICEF has played an important role in strengthening prevention and responses to child trafficking in the region. ...www.unicef.org/wcaro/overview_6445.html

The report says that the age at which children are engaged in the trade is becoming younger with many getting started at the age of 13 and the biggest conduit to the vice being child trafficking. [...]

The exact number of child soldiers in pro-government and defecting units is unknown owing to the reluctance of the relevant military authorities to divulge [...]