Blue World

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Blue World

Author Name: Atul Roy | Format: Paperback | Genre : True Stories | Other Details

Human trafficking in India According to the trafficking protocol by the United Nations, human trafficking is defined as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation.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 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, manipulation or implantation of organs. Human trafficking is a crime against the person because of the violation of the victim's right to movement through coercion and because of their commercial exploitation. In 2014 the International Labour Organization estimated $150 billion in annual profit is generated from forced labour alone. India is also a destination for human trafficking. In the year 2016 alone, 8132 human trafficking cases have been reported in India. The females below age 18 years were majorly rescued from sexual exploitation in the states of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram and Sikkim. .