Human trafficking on cross border areas

(+91-9671445373) AN ARTICLES ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING ON CROSS BORDER AREA’S OF INB

            Human trafficking is an umbrella term that is problematically often reduced to mean prostitution, when it involves sex trafficking. Of the protocol to prevent, suppress and punish Trafficking in persons defines trafficking in persons as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring on receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force on other terms of coercion of abduction, of trend, of deception, of the abuse of poor of position of vulnerability or of the giving or recuing of payments or benefit to achieve the consent of person having control of another person for the purpose of exploitation. Exploitation shall include at a minimum the exploitation of the position of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labour or services, slavery of practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs.

            Today human trafficking is a significant problem in India. People are frequently illegally trafficked through India for the purpose of commercial, sexual exploitation and force/bonded labour. Men, women and children are trafficked in India for diverse reasons. Women and girls are trafficked within the country for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation and forced marriage, especially on those areas where the sex ratio is highly skewed in favour of men. Men and boys are trafficked for the purpose of labour and many be sexually exploited by trafficking to serve as gigolos, massage experts, escorts etc. Mental issues include disorders as depression and anxiety. The lack of control women have in trafficking increases their risk of suffering from mental disorders. Women who are forced into trafficking are at a higher risk for HIV,TB etc.  A significant position of children are subjected to force labour an factory workers, domestic servants, beggars and agriculture workers and have been used as armed combatants by some terrorist and insurgent groups.

            Nepal is considered to be a major country of origin and transit for men women and children subject to trafficking in persons especially for force prostitution. The trafficking of girls from Nepal into India for forced prostitution is perhaps on of the busiest slave trafficking routes anywhere in the world, with estimated 5,000/- to 10,000/- Nepali women and girls trafficked to India each a year. Nepali girls are especially desirable as prostitutes in India because they are considered more attractive due to their lighter skin of colour and because Nepali virgin are believed to able to cure aids. Victim are also trafficked for labour in circuses, agriculture and other manufacturing sectors. The 1850 kilometers of open porous border between Nepal and India make trafficking simple and difficult to each. In addition there is no immigration control for Nepalese migrating to India or Indians coming in Nepal under the 1950 peach and friendship treaty between India and Nepal. After the earthquake in Nepal, thousands of people have become homeless and have sought shelter at refugee camps and many people have been missing an epidemic follows migration of people from one place to other in search of better opportunities to lead a suitable life. In such a situation many people especially women and children from the earthquake affected areas in Nepal would become soft targets to the traffickers who are functioning with a network within the country as well as the other.  Overall it is said that Nepal is a main source of country for men, women and children trafficked for the above purpose through cross border.

            On the adjacent area of INB the large number of peoples was illiterate. It was the main source of human being trafficked through INB. The majority of people still didn’t know about knowledge of human trafficking. The cause of human trafficking in Nepal as well as cross border area were family disorder and violence, lack of education of illiteracy, poverty, lack of social awareness, lack of employment opportunities, attraction of the city life and physical facilities and different rural life. Trafficking took places after some interaction between the traffickers or middlemen and the victims. Who were generally women, girls and children. The vulnerable group of human trafficking were poor girl and women of rural and urban area’s illiterate girls and women, semi- literate girls and women, disadvantaged women of the society and girls of the marriageable age but neglected by the society and girls in border area’s in Uttarpradesh, Bihar and many other transit point for human trafficking from Nepal to India.

            For prevent human trafficking security agencies of both countries should have strict watch on the transit point like Gauriphanta, Sunauly, Rupandehi and Sidharthnagar etc. Nepal is poor country, so Govt. of Nepal improves in education opportunities as well as Institution in the concern area’s, no discrimination between boys and girls, create employment opportunities at the local level. Program on mass awareness raising, Rights of Women Program, education program for women, formal schooling for girls, education about trafficking and safe migration practices, improves opportunities for live hood, strict law, end of gender discrimination, these activities are executed through seminars, rallies, street theatre performance, prevention camps, peer education and community support group providing education and employment opportunities and strict checking in indo Nepal border are the solution of this problem.

            Every Day more than 54 young girls and women are trafficked out of Nepal and Into India to ender a life of slavery. 

            The Border between Nepal and India is 1751 Kilometers along with just 14 check posts along the route this make it easy to trafficked women & young girls mostly aged between 12 and 2 from Nepal to India. The Girls are taken from their names homes and communities to work as sex slaves in the brothels of Mumbai, Banglore, Delhi, Siliguri and Kolkata. This is a life of abuse and fear a life without hope.

Nepal is among the poorest and least developed countries in the world with almost one third of its population living below the poverty line.

                                                                                                           

                                                                                       BHUPENDER SHARMA (+91-9671445373)

There is internal trafficking within the country but a large proportion of trafficking is cross border. Many border area’s are frequently use as land routes for trafficking