Anti-Trafficking And Anti-Slavery Initiative

India alone is home to 40% of the world’s estimated 45.8 million slaves. Trafficking is a form of modern day slavery. In the past decade, the volume of human trafficking has grown to the extent that it is now the third largest form of transnational organized crime after firearms and drugs. In India, the scale of commercial sexual exploitation and trafficking is steadily rising despite the existence of the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956. Trafficking is the recruitment and transportation of a person, within and across national borders, by means of deceit, violence or threat of violence, abuse of authority or dominant position for work or services which may result in forced labour or slavery like practices. Victims of trafficking are exploited and tortured for the financial gains of their exploiters. Children are mainly trafficked for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation, begging, child labour or for adoption purposes. Trafficking takes place either from state to state or through international borders. In most of the trafficking cases that are tried in court, the children are rescued after they have been trafficked to some place. SLIC in collaboration with the National Campaign Committee for Eradication of Bonded Labour (NCCEBL) work towards the eradication of those drafted into bonded labour through activism and advocacy. Through its efforts, hundreds of bonded labourers have been rescued and rehabilitated.