| Trafficking
Trafficking is buying, selling, harbouring, transferring, transporting,
renting, pledging, pawning of persons by criminal ways such as force,
fraud, coercion or by using misusing vulnerable situation or misusing
one’s authority over them to put them into exploitative lifestyle
including sexual slavery, forced labour, beggary, drudgery, organ
trade or slave like situation. All trafficking is not necessarily
for sex trade. Indeed substantial amount of trafficking is for bonded
labour. Prostitution and bonded labour forms 85-90%. Trafficking
for organ trade and beggary is relatively low.
Challenges in combating
1. Connivance of enforcement machinery
2. Policy makers, including judiciary, adopt a paradigm that prostitution
is voluntary necessary and inevitable.
3. Huge demand due to disintegration of family that separate men
and women due to faulty development model.
4. Stigma is strong against sex worker, preventing rehabilitation.
5. Trafficking is profitable business, and there is cheap availability
of supply.
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