This Chapter examines the regulatory and voluntary anti-trafficking governance architecture in the private sector, as well as the power dynamics in MNEs' GVCs as vectors of norm transmission. It argues that, whereas the public authorities in the EU and ASEAN's Member States have an increasingly robust legal and policy framework to fight child trafficking, public authorities and multinational en…
The purpose of the present chapter is to initiate the analysis of the child trafficking apparatus through the examination of a paradox pertaining to the protection of children: the simultaneous acceptance of a universal norm of child protection, and the frequent vulnerabilisation of trafficked children who have been taken into care.