ANURAG KRISHNA TIWARI

STUDENT AT RAJIV GANDHI NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF LAW, PATIALA, PUNJAB

ABSTRACT:

The word “traffic” was first used to describe the white women trade in the early 1900s to the Middle East regions. Women and children are the most vulnerable communities which fall prey to this crime. In 2021, over one thousand human trafficking cases were reported with almost three thousand victims across India. The magnitude of women trafficking in India has increased in recent years according to the National Statistics Office and NCRB reports. It would be wrong to say that this evil has emerged in recent times because it finds its roots in the earliest established human societies such as Greece. Human trafficking at large particularly women trafficking has become a huge problem globally and efforts are being made to tackle the same. The objective of this chapter is to analyze the issue of women trafficking from an Indian perspective. The paper further discusses various models and ways of combating women’s trafficking and successful initiatives for the rehabilitation of victims implemented by various countries as an international reference. 

KEYWORDS: Human/Women trafficking, Constitution of India, Indian Penal code, Immoral Traffic Prevention Act 1956, Trafficked Persons Bill 2018, Ujwala, Supreme Court, Rehabilitation & Preventive models, US model, Swedish model, French model.