This book covers an overview of the results a study conducted in association with the Inter-American Commission of Women and the Inter-American Children’s Institute of the Organization of American States. The two-year project involved Belize, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama. It provides a socio-economic context of poverty and migration; a discussion of risk factors; forms of trafficking, participants, routes, conditions and consequences; and response mechanisms such as policy and legislation. There are recommendations for actions at the regional and national levels.
