Abstract
Trafficking of human beings is a global phenomenon which has gained momentum in recent years. It is the modern-day equivalent of slavery. Trafficking in persons is the third largest form of organised crime after trafficking in arms and drugs (UNODC, 2000). Even though the crime of human trafficking for any purpose is both under-recorded and under-reported, the 2004 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report estimated at least 600,000 to 800,000 women and children being trafficked across international borders every year, the majority being trafficked into commercial sexual exploitation (US DHHS, 2004). This paper seeks to provide an analytical framework for designing more effective laws against human trafficking. The paper in first place, examines human trafficking operations in India and the efforts of the Indian government, non-governmental organizations, and various international organisations to put a stop to trafficking by prosecution of traffickers and providing assistance to survivors of trafficking. The second section investigates the causes of human trafficking which make India both a source and a destination of trafficking in persons, as it continues to grow globally. In the final section of the paper viable solutions to effectively reduce India's tolerance to human trafficking and to secure people from being trafficked internally and to various countries are worked out. The legal arrangements for the protection of human rights and the dignity of women and children in the Indian context and the efforts which the government ought to take in order to eradicate this evil are suggested. This paper is a piece of pure theoretical work and consists of a simple research aimed at finding a particular statement of law or a more complex and in-depth analysis of legal reasoning.
Highlights
Trafficking in persons is an activity of the informal sector and is not accounted for
6% are in Asia and the Pacific, 10% in Latin America and the Caribbean, 9.2% in the Middle East and Northern Africa, 5.2% are in sub-Saharan countries, 10.8% are in industrialized countries, 8% are in countries facing political transition. 161 countries are reported to be involved in trafficking by either participating as the country of source, of transit, or of destination
Even though the crime of human trafficking for any purpose is both under-recorded and under-reported, the 2004 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report estimated at least 600,000 to 800,000 women and children are trafficked across international borders every year, the majority being trafficked into commercial sexual exploitation[10]
Summary
Trafficking in persons is an activity of the informal sector and is not accounted for. Organ trafficking is defined by the United Nations Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children[5] as: the recruitment, transport, transfer, harbouring, or receipt of living or deceased persons or their organs by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability, or of the giving to, or the receiving by, a third party of payments or benefits to achieve the transfer of control over the potential donor, for the purpose of exploitation by the removal of organs for transplantation. The country of transit is used to transport trafficking victims from the country of source to the country of destination
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