In this article today we learn about how to stop human trafficking in india. Basically, trafficking in human beings is crime that occurs to aim people, drive or force people into a petty situation in order to earn profits. This kind of exploitation can take many forms, such as adult sexual abuse, commercial labor forcible labour, bonds labor or organ removal that is illegal, etc. In the country, there is a lot of international as well as cross-border (intra-country) trade.
“Human Trafficking is a transnational, organized crime. It is estimated that the annual earnings earned from the trafficking of human beings can reach $30 billion.”
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How to Stop Human Trafficking in India
“A boy of a young age, pretends to be in love with a girl from school. He informs girl that she will be his bride and demands that she run to him. The girl, enthralled in love, does exactly what she is told. The boy brings her to a village nearby and sells her.”
“Reena is targeted from the age of five. She is compelled to sleep with as many as 20 men per day. By the age of 12, she is pregnant. She is treated badly by her clients. After many years of abuse and abuse, she is in the state of psychotic depression.”
These are the stories of the villages of West Bengal where numerous girls are regularly trafficked. According to a report in the news in the last one year, more than 14,000 children and adults have vanished in West Bengal – most of are thought to be swallowed through the human-trafficking industry.
1. Theatre to teach communities?
Theatre can be an effective tool. Employ theatre-based activities to educate all stakeholders, which includes community employees, anganwadi workers (child care workers), panchayati raj institutions (village council) and so on.
Lack of employment, poverty and a ignorance create a vulnerable community to being a victim of trafficking. We start by identifying the most vulnerable community and conduct a basic investigation of the issues as well as the myths and misperceptions that exist in the community.
Based on this research, we create a show that focuses on the issue and offers solutions to it. The audience is also directed to helpline numbers and other sources to help them overcome the issues.
Slect one or two enthusiastic people from the community to create the group to have a discussion. The group then discusses the issue in depth and attempts to establish a supportive system within the village.
2. What is it that trafficking happen?
Usually, It is commonly’ believed that only economically poor communities are at risk of human trafficking. However, that is not the reality. Everyone is at risk. The desire and need to live a better life make people vulnerable to trafficking. A lot of uninformed and illiterate people are easily a victim to traffickers.
In addition to illiteracy and ignorance I believe there are two additional reasons that expose certain communities to trafficking in human beings. The first is that many villages aren’t connected to the world. There aren’t many roads that can be motorized and telephone lines are a very few and far between. So, when they discover that their daughter is being smuggled, they don’t know whom to go to for assistance.
The second reason is that village life offers little in terms of entertainment or education. Girls are confined by the strict social standards of the village. To escape, they are drawn to men who, in a lot of cases are traffickers.
A map of the villages within West Bengal was conducted and certain communities were classified as being at risk of human trafficking. For instance, we identified vulnerable blocks within the four districts within West Bengal, two in Jharkhand and two in Bihar. Blocks located in Malda, Nadia, Murshidabad, North and South 24 Parganas were identified as the source points and even locations of transit for victims who are coming from Bangladesh.
3. Stop trafficking of human being?
There are many instances where girls were snatched by force or kidnapped by traffickers. In the initial stage of trafficking, families are always in the loop – they either expose their children to traffickers, or they openly selling their girls to agents’. So, parents must be aware of the process their child experiences once they are sold the traffickers.
Families also play a significant part in the life of a victim throughout rehabilitation. In many instances families, they don’t want to take the girl back into their homes and treat her as an outcast. Although some families may accept the victim however, the majority of the community rejects the family. The family finds it difficult to stay in the community.
I believe that currently the process of rehabilitation and reintegration for the victim back into society is extremely challenging and is only achievable with the help of family and friends. take action and provide support.
4. Prevention of Trafficking:
4.1. It has been observed that women and children, are at risk to trafficking during ‘distress migratory as well as in ‘disaster-prone regions’, such as during earthquakes, floods crop failures, riots terrorist acts, etc. Therefore, it is important to establish extra vigilance in this regard around transit points and at borders- interdistrict/inter-state and international.
4.2. Police must work together with authorities dealing in immigration, Border Security Force (BSF), Railways and other transportation authorities, provincial/territorial and municipal agencies, Social Services, child welfare authorities, and any other non-governmental organizations involved in the delivery of services to identify and rescue victims.
4.3. Effectively patrolling and vigilating areas that are vulnerable to trafficking. Example dhabas, highways railway stations, bus stations to identify suspicious movements of traffickers as well as victims, and monitoring, through the involvement in the village’s community, unintentional or suspicious wanderings of strangers through the villages.
4.4. Proactive policing by information exchange with officials from the local government and community groups, as well as NGOs, with a the aim of raising awareness and gain the involvement of the community.
4.5. Regular checks of transporters to ensure that they are not physically transporting the people who have been trafficked.
6.6. Prevention of demand by identifying and addressing new types of demand. For instance the placement agencies who provide domestic child laborers.
4.7. Facilitating inter-State collaboration through sharing data about missing kids/ kidnappings as well as suspected offenders. The creation of profiles of offender and victim in an interagency manner.
4.8. Training programs/workshops for police officers/railway police force and prosecutors about various laws that are that are mentioned above with respect to trafficking. State nodal officers can have periodic meetings to evaluate and track the measures taken to stop and stop trafficking as a crime.
4.9. In the case of trafficking in children the following rules also need to be taken into consideration
The following provisions should be kept in mind:
- Identification of children in danger, (e.g. following raids at off-street areas and responding to referrals received made by different agencies NGO’s or even members of the public, or following up on the reports about missing kids).
- Report incidents of children who require protection to the appropriate agency for child protection. To accomplish this, the Police Stations might be trained.
- The development of profiling of victims in collaboration with other agencies.
- Participating in conjoint interviews with children. Who are identified as victims to determine the level of risk and help in the creation of protection strategies.
- Conduct screenings on people who sponsor or whom you believe to be parents of children who are that are in danger of being trafficked.
- Participating in local networks for child protection together with other organisations like immigration social services and NGOs, health education, etc. In order to come up with joint solutions to the issue at a local level, and contributing to larger forums as needed.
- If children vanish, begin missing person’s procedures, examine the circumstances and distribute information/ conduct investigations, collaborating with other agencies when needed.
- Ministry of Labour & Employment has developed a comprehensive protocol to prevent and rescue, repatriation and rehabilitation and reintegration of migrants and trafficked child labor. The protocol was issued to all state governments for implementation.