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Trafficking of children means any person under eighteen who is recruited, transported, transferred, hosted or received for the purpose of exploitation, both within and outside a country, even when there are no elements of coercion, deception, abuse of authority or other forms of abuse.
Save the Children 2016 Dossier reports that the most affected children are Nigerian and Romanian girls, forced, increasingly younger, Egyptian adolescents and children in transit, particularly Eritreans and Somalis. The young Nigerians are mostly victims of trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation. As we can read in the report, << The number of Nigerian girls and young women at high risk of exploitation arriving in Italy is constantly increasing: in the first six months of 2016, 3529 Nigerian women, all of them very young, and 814 unaccompanied Nigerian children, with a significant presence of young girls, arrived on our coast.>>.