World Citizens Call for Action to End Human Trafficking

Human trafficking is a true stain on humanity! It Is Time to End Human Trafficking By Rene Wadlow To End Human Trafficking. The Association of World Citizens welcomes the decision on 5 April 2018 of the Indian Union Cabinet to agree to the long-awaited bill “Trafficking of Persons (Prevention, Protection, and Rehabilitation) to prevent trafficking humans to beg, marriage, prostitution or labor. The bill will become law when passed by both houses of Parliament, though the bill can still be weakened by amendments in Parliament. There are clauses to address the victims’ physical and mental trauma and rehabilitation through education, training, and healthcare. Thousands of women and children are trafficked within India as well as from neighboring Nepal and Bangladesh. West Bengal which shares a porous border with Bangladesh is known as a human trafficking hub. The Indian government concern underlines the recent increase in the scope, intensity, and sophistication of trafficking of human beings around the world that threatens the safety of citizens everywhere and hinders countries in their social, economic, and cultural development. The smuggling of migrants and the trafficking of human beings for prostitution and slave labor have become two of the fastest growing worldwide problems of recent years. From Himalayan villages to Eastern European cities — especially women and girls — are attracted by the prospects of a well-paid job as a domestic servant, waitress or factory worker. Traffickers recruit victims through fake advertisements, mail-order bride catalogs, casual acquaintances, and even family members. However, trafficking in human beings is not confined to the “sex industry.” Children are trafficked to work in sweatshops and men to work in the “three Ds jobs” — dirty, difficult, and dangerous. The lack of economic, political and social structures providing women with equal job opportunities has also contributed to the feminization…

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