1 Elena Mujoska, M.Sc. 1 Prevention of Child Trafficking – Constant Challenge of the Republic of Macedonia Abstract By raising the cultural, social and educational level of citizens, child trafficking as social and criminal phenomenon begins to be freely discussed and recognised, which should be protected by the competent institutions. Today, the pornography tolerance limits are wider than ever. It can be freely stated that in some way pornography is a component of the world’s popular culture. Despite an impressive, if disparate, array of international legal protections, it is clear that child labor, forced marriage and commercial sexual exploitation of children and adults were increasing, virtually unchecked in many parts of the world. Globalization, bringing with it the promise of wider markets and greater profits, has created a complex new network and even new forms of exploitation. We all believed that trafficking was an appropriate focus for international law. In this paper, by applying the method of comparison, a presentation of the valid legislation has been made, which refers to the protection of the rights of women and children, whereupon the efforts of certain countries (especially the underdeveloped ones offering poor legislative solutions) to bring their solutions closer to the rest of the more developed countries which regulated this matter long time ago are evident. Perhaps, this is the most convenient manner for approaching the universally acceptable principles. Certain changes are constantly being made in the system of crimes against sexual freedom and sexual morality, especially the establishment of criminal-law protection of women and children from acts of sexual abuse, and new incriminations are provided for as most adequate solution of the newly emerged problem – a trend which should be followed by Macedonian penal legislation. Key words: child trafficking, sexual exploitation, victim, sanctions, measures Introduction The comprehension and identification of the forms of trafficking in human beings is an issue that draws the attention not only of the professional and scientific community, but beyond. In the last two decades, this problem gets bigger, thus from a hidden and little-known “taboo” subject it is becoming a main priority of penal legislation worldwide. The Republic of Macedonia is not exempted from this trend. On the contrary, there are more evident cases of sexual abuse of children 1 Teaching and Research Assistant at the Faculty of Law “Iustinianus Primus” – Skopje and PhD candidate at the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, Faculty of Law “Iustinianus Primus”, University “Ss. Cyril and Methodius”, Skopje. Contact: emujoska@yahoo.com .