Trafficking and Exploitation of Women and Children in India An Analytical Study

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12 and#2358;and#2379;and#2343;and#7061;:and#2341; and#2360;and#2366;and#2352;and#2366;and#2306;and#2358; and#2309;and#2367;and#2343;and#2325;and#2340;and#2350; 1800 character newlineand#2350; (and#2349;and#2366;and#2359;and#2366;- and#2367;and#2361;:and#2342;and#2368; and#2351;and#2367;and#2370; and#2344;and#2325;and#2379;and#2337;/and#2309;and#2306;and#7061;and#2375;and#2332;and#2368; ) Human trafficking is a trade carried upon human beings. The offender s traffic human beings, exploit them in various forms for financial earnings. Human trafficking violates many human rights of the victims. The victims of human trafficking face many consequences as they suffer long period of exploitation even after they come out from such status. This paper deals with the trafficking and exploitation of women and children in India. This paper analyses the consequences of trafficking on victims. Transnational organized criminals in human trafficking work as a network among the nations and exploit human beings. There is a United Nations Convention on Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC) to prevent the human trafficking. This paper studies about the Indian domestic legislations on human trafficking in the light of the International Conventions on the subject matter. In the end, it comes out with measures for preventing human trafficking. newlineTrafficking means a trade which is illegal. Human trafficking is carrying out a trade on human especially women and children. They are trafficked for the purpose of sexual slavery, commercial sexual exploitation, extraction of organs or tissues, forced marriage, forced labour or domestic servitude. Human trafficking after drugs and the arms trade is the third largest organized crime across the world. The newlinetrafficking of women and children across newline newline the world is mainly done for sexual exploitation where women and children turn as victims to it. Human trafficking is done for a number of purposes but sadly in our country the act which exists against human trafficking is Immoral Trafficking Prevention Act (ITPA) 1956 and it only combats the trafficking of women and children if it is done for the purpose of sexual exploitation. So the legal provisions relating to trafficking of women and children whole must be strengthened in order to prevent human trafficking in India.