As human trafficking rises 60%, six reasons new bill falls short
Every day, 15 Indians are traded against their will to be, among other things, sexual slaves or forced labour, but a draft law to prevent India's growing tide of human trafficking cases, which rose 60% in the four years to 2014, the last year for which data are available, is being criticised for six reasons.
It is clear that existing laws under four acts are failing. From a decadal perspective, the trafficking of minor girls surged 14 times over the decade ending 2014. Girls and women comprised 76% of human-trafficking cases that year. Human trafficking in India for sexual slavery has grown in concert with economic growth, IndiaSpend reported in April 2016.
To address these failures and create a one-stop law to address diverse facets of human trafficking - sexual slavery, begging, forced labour and organ trafficking - a draft bill called Trafficking of Persons (Prevention, Protection and Rehabilitation) Bill, 2016, will be introduced in the next session of Parliament by the Ministry of Women and Child Development, and it comes up short on these counts:
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