Human Trafficking (Focused on Trafficking in Child)

ABSTRACTThis study on Child Trafficking is aimed to resolve & provide the probable solution to the problem of Human trafficking, the issue which has been brought into area of concern by the researcher is the rapid expansion of this trafficking with the passage of time and its going beyond the control of clutches of the basic body of the government which detain such culprits who are a part of this type of trafficking rackets. Proper research has been undertaken to locate the core deficiency in existing system involved to prevent such offences. In this paper the researcher has taken acute care in determining raison d'etre for this emerging trade of child trafficking, functioning of this trafficking , consequence of this trafficking, role of human rights and other NGO's in its deterrence and also existing constitutional and legal provisions for safeguarding of children from this heinous crime. At the closing stage researcher has also discussed about the solution and proposition to restrain the number of traffic rackets.Key Words: Trafficking, ChildINTRODUCTION"Children are the only future of any people. If the children's lives are squandered, and if the children...are not fully developed at whatever cost and sacrifice, the people will have consigned themselves to certain death"Frances cress welsingHuman trafficking is the illegal recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring and receipt of a person especially one from another country with the intent to hold the person captive or exploit the person for labour, services, and body parts. "The recruitment, transfer, transportation, harbouring, and receipt of a person by means of threat or the use of force or other forms of coercion, abduction, of fraud, of deception of abuse of power or vulnerability or of the giving of or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of the person having control over another person for the purpose of exploitation." Child trafficking means "any person under 18 who is recruited, transported, transferred, harboured or received for the purpose of exploitation, either within or outside a country"BACKGROUNDChild trafficking is not a new crime emerged it is existing in society from the medieval period. Child trafficking has put its seed during the fall of soviet Russia, due to mounting poverty this offence began to grow up, In 1904 an international agreement for the suppression of "white slave traffic" was made but it failed because of the first world war and this crime spread its roots again, but for a second time efforts were made on June 21, 1921,league of nations held a meeting on "trafficking of women and children" and to watch out all the countries to be dealt with this problem. During the time of World War 2 in Japan Asian women were forced into sexual slavery and were kept into stations known as "comfort stations" and men gained access to them while paying a fee. In the year of 1956 an initiative was taken by India, it passed the Immoral Traffic Prevention Act,1956.Trafficking in India of women and children is a frequently happening event and all the happenings seem to be associated with the natural, demographic economic and social factor.The basic issue for concern and the motive for going on with this paper is to research that why this crime of trafficking is flourishing in spite of preventive measures taken by the bodies of Government and even by non governmental bodies. This issue has crop up because of growing crimes in society of this trafficking. According to estimation around 6, 00,000 to 8, 00,000 people are trapped in the web of trafficking across the international borders and out of it half of the victims are children worldwide! Available records of National crime records Bureau show a total of 3,554 crimes related to human trafficking as compared to 3,517 previous and around 2,080 some more years back. Also a minister Jitendra singh, former minister of state home affairs said that almost 60,000 children are missing in 2011. …