Human Trafficking

Trafficking in persons is a serious crime and a grave violation of

human rights. Every year, thousands of men, women and children fall into
the hands of traffickers, in their own countries and abroad. Almost every
country in the world is affected by trafficking, whether as a country of
origin, transit or destination for victims. UNODC, as guardian of the United
Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC) and
the Protocols thereto, assists States in their efforts to implement
the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in
Persons (Trafficking in Persons Protocol).
Human trafficking outside India, although illegal under Indian law,
remains a significant problem. People are frequently illegally trafficked
through India for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and
forced/bonded labour. Although no reliable study of forced and bonded
labour has been completed, NGOs[who?] estimate this problem
affects[clarification needed] 20 to 65 million Indians. Women and girls are
trafficked within the country for the purposes of commercial sexual
exploitation and forced marriage especially in those areas where the sex
ratio is highly skewed in favour of men. A significant portion of children
are subjected to forced labour as factory workers, domestic servants,
beggars, and agriculture workers, and have been used as armed
combatants by some terrorist and insurgent groups.
"The world's largest democracy has the world's largest problem of
human trafficking," said the US state department's specialist on trafficking
issue, Mark Lagon. The department has warned India would be
downgraded to a "Tier 3" category unless it improved its track record.
That would mean that the US would withhold non-humanitarian, non-trade
related foreign aid. Correspondents say that "Tier 3" countries are also
denied access to educational and cultural exchange programmes. The
state department estimates that around 800,000 people are trafficked
across international borders every year, and that 80% of them are females
used in the sex trade. The annual report places India as a "Tier two"
country for the fourth year in a row. An official in India's Women and Child
Development
ministry, however,
defended her
department's efforts in
tackling the
problem.

The US wants countries

to address the trafficking
problem
The solution of human trafficking in India, Education is the main idea
to solve this problem. When people have knowledge, they will have more
skill to improve their life such as farming technique or job skill. So people
will have more ways to find money and live in the safety place without
human trafficking risk. Dictates every town or village policy on combating
human trafficking is important, and requires the active participation. This
solution make people active with the human trafficking by make people
participate to stop the human trafficking. On the other hand, we can make
all both India and foreign workers must cooperates campaign against
human trafficking, and interception of illegal migrants.