Combating Sea-route Human Trafficking in Bangladesh: A Critical Analysis on Legal and Institutional Framework

Abstract

Human trafficking is one of the most atrocious crimes and grave violation of human rights in the present world. It is the abuse of one person by another that is taken place within a country or across borders and constitutes a gross challenge to humanity affecting millions of people from various parts of the globe irrespective of region, violates global and national laws, undermines universally recognized human rights and fundamental freedoms, negatively impacts families and communities, and inspires perpetrators with billions of dollars in profits. Using undue influence, threat, fraud, coercion and other horrible means, traffickers prey on the helpless, desperate, and the vulnerable. In recent times the human trafficking through sea-route among in its numerous forms has become a catchphrase in Bangladesh that has tensed up the nerve of common people in general who are not getting rid of the curse of this brutality. This academic piece of research work intends mainly to illustrate the legal and institutional framework of sea-route human trafficking for combating this crime in Bangladesh. Another aim of this research is to illustrate the detailed account of human trafficking in Bangladesh and its obligation under the international human rights instruments which is most pertinent to clarify its thematic features. It further strives to analyze critically the nature and gravity of this offence, establish widespread recognition of the human trafficking as a trans-border crime and the need to make some policy recommendations and make joint efforts regarding the prevention of this offence and effective remedy of the victim.