Child Trafficking in India

Law

Trafficking is historically linked to slavery, which involves the sale and purchase of human beings as chattel, treating them as commodities that could be bought and sold. Child trafficking is generally defined as the process of recruitment, transfer, transport, harbor or receipt of a person under the age of 18 for the purpose of exploitation. The constitution of India explicitly prohibits trafficking of human beings and forced labour, and makes both offenses punishable under Article 23(1) of Indian Constitution The causes of child trafficking are poverty, lack of employment and education opportunities, breakdown of social structures etc. The international law says that the trafficked persons cannot be discriminated simply because they are non- nationals. The international human law applies to everyone within a State’s territory or jurisdiction regardless of the nationality or citizenship and how they came to be within the territory. The anti-trafficking measures need to be spread throughout the globe especially in trafficking prone area, both rural and urban.

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