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Girl Child Trafficking In Indian Society
Authors. Jai Shankar Ojha
(Asst. Professor , Law College Dehradun , Uttaranchal University )
Manav Arora (10 th Semester, BBALLB.(Hons.)
College : Law College Dehradun
Email id:manav.arora911@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
‘Child Prostitution is the ultimate denial of the rights of child’ Status of GIRL according to
Indian methodology - INDIA globally known for fusion of Culture ,Moral ,Rituals &
Religion .For Indians religion is their first preference among the society. India is the
world's third largest religious country. A country who believes a girl child as equal to
goddess. Sounds a magnificent nation , nation of humanity , But yet only one side of coin
was characterized ,the another side is nor magnificent nor humanitarian , its completely
Violative, its brutal ,one side they are being worshiped and very next side they are being
exploited mentally- physically by slavery , by prostitution , by TRAFFICKING.
WHAT IS GIRL &WOMEN TRAFFICKING ?
Violence Against Women , A Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), Girl trafficking is a form of
modern day slavery. Millions of people worldwide live and suffer in slave-like situations.
According to the United Nations, Girl trafficking is ranked as the third greatest revenue
source of organized crime just after narcotics and arms. While the U.S. Department of State
estimates that 800,000 – 900,000 people are trafficked across borders annually, the United
Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and many other organizations taking the lead to eradicate
trafficking put the number above 2 million. Adding domestic trafficking to those numbers,
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which is defined as people trafficked within the borders of one nation, the number reaches
almost 4 million persons trafficked per year. Trafficked victims are often deceived, forced, or
coerced into vulnerable situations that make it easy for the traffickers to hold them in forced
labor and/or slavery. The overwhelming majority of victims of trafficking are women and
girls. These women are often also victims of war, poverty, discrimination, and violence.
DEFINING THE TERM TRAFFICKING :- The International Human Rights Law Group
defines trafficking as “the recruitment, harboring, transporting, providing or obtaining, by
any means, any person for labor or services involving forced labor, slavery or servitude in
any industry, such as forced or coerced participation in agriculture, prostitution,
manufacturing, or other industries or in domestic service or marriage.”
The United States’ Trafficking Victims Protection Act defines “severe forms of trafficking in
persons” as “sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or
coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such act has not attained 18 years of age;
or the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or
services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to
involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery”.
Trafficking is an organized crime violating all tenets of human dignity and right. The
National Commission For Women has made a study which dealt with a complex, tough and
daunting problems affecting an increasing number of vulnerable children and women of India
who are the victims of commercial sexual exploitation and trafficking. Over the past decade
the major contributions of the anti-trafficking movement in India, Nepal and Bangladesh has
project the problem of trafficking in women and children into a high profile and high priority
issue on national and regional agendas of all the key stakeholders, as well as creating
increased awareness on trafficking at all levels. The increasing foregrounding of women and
minors in the process of contemporary migration especially over the past decade is a
consequence of two related phenomena, namely, the feminization of poverty and the
feminization of migration.
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Recent trends in globalization have fragmented the structure of the family and the traditional
rural households, and released each member as a separate and independent unit of labor to be
plugged into the modern labor market. On account of the traditional sexual division of labor
on one hand and the demand for as well as a subsequent growth of reproductive services in
the globalised market on the other, women and girls are increasingly being pulled as service
providers to fulfill the demand for a vast array of personalized, reproductive services in the
entertainment and sex industry, domestic work, and the marriage market.
GLOBAL ISSUE OFCHILD TRAAFCKING ACROSS THE WORLD
The meaning of dealing and the abuse and prostitution of others is set out in Articles 1 and 2
of the 1949 Convention for the Suppression on the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation
of the Prostitution of Others. The Convention alludes to activities as both the national and
universal dimensions. Since 1949, the idea of dealing has been stretched out to incorporate
dealing with the end goal of different types of misuse of girls and women.
POSITION OF CHILDREN WOMEN AND VICTIMS OF COMMERCIAL SEXUAL
ABUSES.
The trafficking of women and children for commercial sexual exploitation is a fundamental
violation of the basic rights of women and children. The social, psychological and moral
effects are fatal, causing life-long and even life threatening possibilities. About 60-85% of the
victims suffer from more than one disease. There is always a threat of unwanted pregnancy,
torture, physical injuries, contracting serious diseases are very much present. Shunned by the
majority, they are in danger of being brought up in the grip of various vices and criminal
activities. They also develop a fatalistic attitude which makes rehabilitation more difficult.
NATIONAL LAWS ON GIRL CHILD HUMAN TRAFFICKING: It is a quest to
focus on the study of the legal framework in India to combat human trafficking specializing
in trafficking of women and children. There are various constitutional safeguards along with
