An India for Children
An India for Children
The root causes of child
exploitation in India are poverty, lack of education, and the need to
support their family, unemployment, rural-urban migration. UNICEF study analyze that out
of the total trafficked victims, approximately 40 percent of the children enter
into commercial sexual exploitation below 18 years of age. In the same way, in
India, 3 to 5 lakh children enter into sex slavery or prostitution yearly.
The trafficking of the children involves multiple forms of
physical, emotional, and sexual violence, abuses and neglect. Children are
being trafficked for various purposes such as begging, domestic service,
agriculture, hazardous factories and mines, construction work, compulsory
labor, restaurants and bars, armed force and most particularly, girls are sold
for high profit sex business. Trafficking of millions of children across the
globe for commercial sexual exploitation is one the biggest challenges in
contemporary lives. Child sex slavery has been found as international crime
against humanity. At national level, Article 23 of Indian Constitution
specifies that traffic in human beings and beggar and other similar forms of
forced labor be prohibited. Child trafficking is uprising its incidence in
illegal organ trade as well. It is an organized criminal activity. WHO
estimates that nearly 6000 thousands international kidney transactions in a
year. Under this crime, traffickers and procurer coerce or harass the children
for giving an internal organs of the body such as Kidneys and liver. World
Health Organization (WHO) states that the commercialization of human organs is a
violation of human rights and human dignity under the guiding principles on
Human Organ Transplantation (1991).
Children whose experience exploitation are more prone to physical
and mental disability, homelessness, depression and suicide, social withdrawal,
and feeling of stigmatization, and high emotional vulnerability due to acute
anxiety, anger, abusive behavior, poor self-competence, social isolation, and psychosomatic illness
such as chronic body ache, headache, insomnia and poor digestive problems.
Major challenges to combat
or prohibit child trafficking are very significant and immense. Despite,
several laws and conventions, this offensive crime is continual increasing in
the whole world. To combat this social
evil awareness is needed. more co-ordination and collaboration between
government and non-government organizations, appropriate referrals to social
service assistance and effective implementation of legislations that are
required for the prohibition of the human trafficking . Social services to the
trafficked survivors such as shelter home, food, medical care, safety and
security facilitates specialized counseling sessions to the victims and their
families to improve physical and mental health conditions should be given so that
they may be able to cope up with their terrible experiences.
Trafficking among children
is a serious and heinous crime. It is persistently is an international issue.
Eventually, different forms of trafficking influence every single country of
this universe. It requires integrated and multidisciplinary techniques and
strategies to address the complexity of the trafficking in persons.
International bodies such as UN agencies, ILO, UN-GIFT, national and state
governments, nongovernment organizations, and civil society organizations have
to play an important and significant role together to eradicate the most
abusive and vulnerable form of trafficking exploitation. In fight against child
trafficking, need of proper and timely monitoring and evaluation of policies
& legislations to combat this offence.
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