{"id":121812,"date":"2021-07-28T20:22:06","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T14:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=121812"},"modified":"2021-07-28T20:26:44","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T14:56:44","slug":"needed-an-anti-trafficking-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/needed-an-anti-trafficking-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Needed: an anti-trafficking law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Source<\/b>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/ShareArticle?OrgId=GFP8QGRP8.1&amp;imageview=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Hindu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance<\/strong>: Eliminating Human trafficking altogether is a moral and constitutional responsibility<\/p>\n<h5><b>Synopsis<\/b>:<\/h5>\n<p>Human trafficking is a crime in itself, but it is also the propeller of several other crimes<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Introduction:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA) and various civil society groups have campaigned for decades for a strong <strong>law to end this menace of human trafficking<\/strong>. In 2017, thousands of trafficking survivors marched a Bharat Yatra alongside students, governments, the judiciary, multifaith leaders, businesses and civil society to demand such a law.<\/p>\n<h5><b>COVID-19 and Trafficking:<\/b><\/h5>\n<p>COVID-19 has<strong> further intensified the need for the law<\/strong>. <strong>Traffickers are taking advantage of prolonged school closures and loss of family livelihood<\/strong>. BBA with government agencies has<strong> rescued almost 9,000 children from trafficking since the first lockdown<\/strong>. In comparison, about half this number of children were rescued during the same time period of 14 months preceding the pandemic.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>About the Trafficking in Persons (Prevention, Care and Rehabilitation) Bill:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>The Government of India has proposed the Trafficking in Persons (Prevention, Care and Rehabilitation) Bill, 2021. This Bill aims to <strong>tackle all aspects of trafficking<\/strong> <strong>including the social and economic causes<\/strong> of the crime, punishment to traffickers, and the <strong>protection and rehabilitation of survivors<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>How essential is the legislation?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Human trafficking is a crime in itself, but it is also the propeller of several other crimes. It <strong>creates a parallel black economy<\/strong> that fuels <strong>child labour, child marriage, prostitution, bonded labour, forced beggary, drug-related crimes, corruption, terrorism and other illicit businesses<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Further, the architects of our Constitution established the severity of the crime of trafficking by making it the <strong>only offence punishable under the Constitution<\/strong> of India itself, <strong>besides untouchability<\/strong>.\n<ul>\n<li>So, a <strong>strong anti-trafficking law is the moral and constitutional responsibility<\/strong> of our elected leaders, and a necessary step towards nation-building and economic progress.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Suggestions to end trafficking in India:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>To protect and rehabilitate the trafficked persons, the Bill has to include the <strong>necessary checks and balances<\/strong> against potential misuse of power by agencies, <strong>periodic reviews<\/strong> of the law, and <strong>adequate allocation of resources<\/strong> for effective implementation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"content-box-green\">\n<p><strong><span class=\"TextRun SCXW44574069 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW44574069 BCX0\">Terms to know<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW44574069 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW44574069 BCX0\">:\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"Hyperlink SCXW44574069 BCX0\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/trafficking-in-persons-prevention-care-and-rehabilitation-bill-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span class=\"TextRun Underlined SCXW44574069 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW44574069 BCX0\" data-ccp-charstyle=\"Hyperlink\">Trafficking in Persons (Prevention, Care and Rehabilitation) Bill<\/span><\/span><\/a><span class=\"EOP SCXW44574069 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source:\u00a0The Hindu Relevance: Eliminating Human trafficking altogether is a moral and constitutional responsibility Synopsis: Human trafficking is a crime in itself, but it is also the propeller of several other crimes Introduction: Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA) and various civil society groups have campaigned for decades for a strong law to end this menace of human&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/needed-an-anti-trafficking-law\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Needed: an anti-trafficking law<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[8636,212,8131,8470,8621],"class_list":["post-121812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-anti-trafficking-law","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-social-issues","tag-trafficking","tag-women-and-child-related-issues","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700782866,"cached_date":1703692736},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}