2019 – Posted in: Daily News

HUMAN TRAFFICKING

For: Preliminary & Mains

Topics covered:

What is Human Trafficking?
Why is human trafficking increasing in India?
Key findings of the new study

News Flash

According to a new study, One-third of traffickers are women and neighbours.

A recently conducted study on the profile of persons accused in trafficking in West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh has revealed that one-third of them are women/females.
Fifty percent, in these cases, are from the age group of 25 to 45 years.

Key Findings

The largest group of the traffickers (34%) were neighbours, while 31% were completely unknown to the survivors.
In most cases, family members were not accused.
Lack of legal support to survivors and a prolonged trial gives impunity to traffickers.
Traffickers enjoy a high degree of impunity because of the lackluster investigation.
Lack of retribution in investigation encourages them to carry on with their crimes that lead to a surge in incidents of human trafficking

Background

The last published report of the National Crime Record Bureau for 2016 recorded 8,132 cases of human trafficking in the country, of which 3,579 cases (around 44%) were from West Bengal alone.

Human Trafficking

Human trafficking is the trade of humans for the purpose of forced labour, sexual slavery, or commercial sexual exploitation for the trafficker or others.
It is a crime against the person because of the violation of the victim’s rights of movement through coercion and because of their commercial exploitation.
Human trafficking is the trade in people, especially women and children, and does not necessarily involve the movement of the person from one place to another.
Human trafficking is thought to be one of the fastest-growing activities of trans-national criminal organizations.

Why is human trafficking increasing in India?

Forced marriage
Bonded labour
Action against guilty

Source: The Hindu