My paragraph on Human trafficking in India

India’s Human Trafficking Problem

            Human trafficking is considered modern slavery.  It is a problem where people are forced into bonded labor, sexually exploited, and forced into involuntary servitude.  India is unique in human trafficking because it is not only a source but a destination and transit area for the exploitation of people.  Also unique to India, is that it is large consumer of its human trafficking.  About 85% of the people trafficked in India are used domestically.  International forced labor may constitute India's largest trafficking problem.  Women and girls are trafficked for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation and forced marriage.  Children are forced into labor as factory workers, domestic servants, beggars, and agricultural workers.  They have also used them as armed combatants.  One of the largest growing recent trends is the sex tourism trade.  Men from other countries are coming into India to experience the prostituted children and women.  A critical challenge for India is the overall is the lack of punishment for traffickers.  Human Traffickers are able to commit their crimes with impunity and are not worried about the consequences.  Another critical challenge for India is addressing the root causes of human trafficking.  They are wide spread poverty, high unemployment, and the under development of communities.  India needs to address these social problems as well as enforce the laws against the traffickers.  India’s problem is bad enough that the U.S. has India on its Tier II watch list for the fifth consecutive year.  This is a list of countries that the government says are not in full compliance with the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) but are making progress in solving the problem.  Also, India has not ratified the 2000 UN Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Protocol of 2008.  Although India is working on their problem they have a long way to go.

CIA Factbook:  https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/in.html

India Times – Human Trafficking a serious crime: CBI Chief:  http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Human-trafficking-a-serious-organised-crime-CBI-chief/articleshow/4511706.cms

India Times – Human Trafficking situation in India grim: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Human-trafficking-situation-in-India-grim-US/articleshow/1012186.cms