Human Trafficking

Human Trafficking:

Traffic means 'deal or trade in something illegal.'

Human Trafficking means "organized criminal activity in which human beings are treated as possessions to be controlled and exploited (as by being forced into prostitution or involuntary labour).

Definition of 'human trafficking' as:

“the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of 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 or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation. Exploitation shall include, at a minimum, the exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labour or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs;”

Human Trafficking:

Human trafficking is the trade in humans, most commonly for the purpose of sexual slavery, forced labor or commercial sexual exploitation for the trafficker or others; or for the extraction of organs or tissues, including surrogacy and ova removal; or for providing a spouse in the context of forced marriage.

News by American Red Cross:

27 million people a year are affected by human trafficking and contemporary forms of slavery.

While human trafficking takes on many forms, from forced labor and domestic servitude, to child soldiers, prostitution and the illicit drug trade, the problem is global and one of the most urgent transnational issues we face today. (News by American Red Cross)

The Indian Govt passed the penal law of 'The Immoral Trafficking Prevention Act (ITPA).'

Apart from that the IPC sec.366-A and 372 prohibiting kidnapping and selling minors into prostitution respectively.

Trafficking is an offence in IPC. Now, the new law on ‘Trafficking for labour’ has been replaced with a new definition of ‘trafficking for physical exploitation.’

In India:

Trafficking is steadily rising despite the law of the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act 1956.

A report in 1996: 'there were 2.3 million women in prostitution in India, a quarter of whom were minors.' Sexual slavery is rapidly decreasing. Children are mainly trafficked for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation.