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What we know

Marianco asks people for money to protect children. The least we owe in return is to be accurate about what we are protecting them from. This is the reference we work from, with every source named.

  5. What Swedish law actually carriesKidnapping, trafficking, exploitation and the sexual offences against children, with the sentence each one carries drawn to the same scale.

The law this work stands on

Nine instruments, from a 1926 convention still supplying the definition of slavery to an EU directive member states must transpose by July 2026.

A century of it

Every instrument on this page, by the year it was adopted. The 1926 definition is still the one in use; almost everything else was written after 2000.

  • Treaty
  • EU law
  • Swedish law
  1. 1926, Slavery Convention, Treaty
  2. 1989, Convention on the Rights of the Child, Treaty
  3. 1998, Rome Statute, Treaty
  4. 2000, Optional Protocol on the sale of children, Treaty
  5. 2000, Palermo Protocol, Treaty
  6. 2007, Lanzarote Convention, Treaty
  7. 2011, EU Anti-Trafficking Directive, EU law
  8. 2011, EU Child Sexual Abuse Directive, EU law
  9. 2024, The 2024 amendment, EU law
A century of it

Every instrument on this page, by the year it was adopted. The 1926 definition is still the one in use; almost everything else was written after 2000.

  • Treaty
  • EU law
  • Swedish law
  1. 1926, Slavery Convention, Treaty
  2. 1989, Convention on the Rights of the Child, Treaty
  3. 1998, Rome Statute, Treaty
  4. 2000, Optional Protocol on the sale of children, Treaty
  5. 2000, Palermo Protocol, Treaty
  6. 2007, Lanzarote Convention, Treaty
  7. 2011, EU Anti-Trafficking Directive, EU law
  8. 2011, EU Child Sexual Abuse Directive, EU law
  9. 2024, The 2024 amendment, EU law
LoN1926

Source: Slavery Convention, Genève 25 september 1926, i kraft 9 mars 1927, ändrad genom protokoll 7 december 1953. UNTS vol. 212, nr I-2861.

CRC1989

Source: FN:s konvention om barnets rättigheter, generalförsamlingens resolution 44/25 av 20 november 1989. Svensk inkorporering: lag (2018:1197) om Förenta nationernas konvention om barnets rättigheter.

ICC1998

Source: Romstadgan för Internationella brottmålsdomstolen, 17 juli 1998. Definitionen: ICC Elements of Crimes, ICC-ASP/1/3 del II-B s. 120, antagna 3–10 september 2002.

OPSC2000

Source: Fakultativt protokoll till barnkonventionen om försäljning av barn, barnprostitution och barnpornografi, generalförsamlingens resolution 54/263 av 25 maj 2000, i kraft 18 januari 2002.

UNTOC2000

Source: Protokollet om förebyggande, bekämpande och bestraffande av handel med människor, särskilt kvinnor och barn, generalförsamlingens resolution 55/25 av 15 november 2000, i kraft 25 december 2003.

CETS 2012007

Source: Europarådets konvention om skydd för barn mot sexuell exploatering och sexuella övergrepp, CETS nr 201, Lanzarote 25 oktober 2007, i kraft 1 juli 2010.

2011/36/EU2011

Source: Europaparlamentets och rådets direktiv 2011/36/EU av 5 april 2011 om förebyggande och bekämpande av människohandel, om skydd av dess offer.

2011/93/EU2011

Source: Europaparlamentets och rådets direktiv 2011/93/EU av 13 december 2011 om bekämpande av sexuella övergrepp mot barn, sexuell exploatering av barn och barnpornografi.

2024/17122024

Source: Europaparlamentets och rådets direktiv (EU) 2024/1712 av 13 juni 2024 om ändring av direktiv 2011/36/EU, i kraft 14 juli 2024.

The UN targets that name this work

Three targets, not three goals. Goal 8 is decent work in general; 8.7 is the line that says forced labour, modern slavery and child soldiers.

5TARGET 5.2

8TARGET 8.7

16TARGET 16.2

Where the figures come from

Each of these carries a limitation its own authors state. We publish it alongside.

UNODC2024

UNODC 2024

ILO2024

ILO 2024

Walk Free2023

Walk Free 2023

Brå2025

Brå 2025

The full reference document, with all 264 sourced claims, is kept in the repository.