section_path: Issues/Child abuse and child labor
section_name: Child abuse and child labor
paragraph_text: Child abuse and child labor
  
  Protection of children from abuse is considered an important contemporary goal. This includes protecting children from exploitation such as child labor, child trafficking and child selling, child sexual abuse, including child prostitution and child pornography, military use of children, and child laundering in illegal adoptions. There exist several international instruments for these purposes, such as: