Immoral

National Commission for Women

Nation wide Program for
Generating Awareness about
Legal Rights of Women

Resource Person
Professor & Lawyer. Puttu Guru Prasad
M.Com. M.B.A., L.L.B., M.Phil. PGDFTM,
APSET. ICFAI TMF, (PhD) at JNTU Kakinada
Senior faculty for Management studies, VVIT.
93 94 96 98 98, 9885 96 36 36
puttuvvit@gmail.com
 Trafficking is a organized crime which
violates all tenets of human dignity and
rights.
Trafficking can occur for various
purposes--labour, commercial sexual
exploitation, organ trade etc.
Trafficking is a centre and State subject
Poverty, illiteracy, lack of livelihood
options, natural/man made disasters
makes a person vulnerable to trafficking.
India faces both In-country and Cross
Border trafficking.
 Estimate place number of sex workers
in country at 3 million of which 40
percent are children.
90% or more estimated as in-country
and 5 to 10% to cross-border
trafficking, reported mainly from
Bangladesh and Nepal.
Also, there are reports that people
from India are being trafficked to
Middle Eastern countries for domestic
help, manual labour, child marriages
etc.
Trafficking in Human Beings or
Persons is prohibited under the
Constitution of India. The specific
provisions relates to Article 23 (1) of
the Constitution which is as follows:-
'Traffic in human beings and begar and
other similar forms of forced labour
are prohibited and any contravention of
this provision shall be an offence
punishable in accordance with law'.
 Immoral Traffic Prevention Act, 1956
(being amended)
Indian Penal Code (select provisions)
Juvenile Justice ( Care and Protection
of Children) Act 2000
Child Marriage Prohibition Act 2006
A Comprehensive Scheme for
Prevention of Trafficking and Rescue,
Rehabilitation and Re-integration of
Victims of Trafficking for Commercial
Sexual Exploitation launched on 4
December, 2007 ujjawala (access at
www.wcd.nic.in).

To be implemented by NGOs.
 A holistic Plan of Action for Prevention
and Combating Trafficking in Human
Beings with Special Focus on Women and
Children (being finalized).
Address all forms of trafficking (sexual
exploitation, child labor, bonded labor,
organ trade etc).
MWCD ,Ministry of Home Affairs, Ministry
of Labor, National Commission for
Women and National Human Rights
Commission are collaborating in this
effort.
 National Commission for Women
Nation wide Program for
Generating Awareness about
Legal Rights of Women

Resource Person
Professor & Lawyer. Puttu Guru Prasad
M.Com. M.B.A., L.L.B., M.Phil. PGDFTM,
APSET. ICFAI TMF, (PhD) at JNTU
Kakinada
Senior faculty for Management studies, VVIT.
93 94 96 98 98, 9885 96 36 36