The Body Business – The Odious Face of Prostitution, Slavery and Human Trafficking
Prostitution is the act of selling one’s body for money. It is a type of practice that entails money in exchange for sexual participation. Because of its profit motive, it is frequently referred to as commercial sex.…
Human Trafficking to Human Rights – A Long Path to Cover
The soothing comfort of our beds with dimmed lights and a peaceful sleep taking over. The feeling of being safe where nobody can harm you is a great gift or one might say actually, is a right.…
Transnational Adoption – Human Trafficking Cloaked Behind a Veil?
Human trafficking has received increased contemplation over the last 10 to 15 years both in terms of public and political arenas. Human trafficking also termed trafficking in persons or modern slavery, is the term that has been…
Prostitution, Slavery and Human Trafficking – The Odious face of India and the World
Trafficking in Oxford Dictionary means the activity of buying and selling something illegally. Human trafficking refers to the criminal practice of exploitation of human beings where they are treated as commodities for profit and after being trafficked,…
Marketing Human Body and Bodily Materials – Property Rights over Human Body
With the growth of biotechnology, organ transplantation, drug development, and surrogacy, the human body, and bodily materials including waste, hair, DNA, gametes, etc. acquired great commercial value. The increased demand for body tissues and organs evolved the…
Child Trafficking in India – The Reality and the Discernment
What we do see is that the child trafficking is becoming an income revenue stream for organized crimes, for gangs. It is not a horror safely confined to the past, it continues to exist throughout the world,…
Rights of Eunuchs – The Invisible Mass of Society
In India, Eunuchs- a castrated male, also known as transgender or Hijra, are the person who is recognized neither as male nor woman. They are a different gender altogether and one of the most overlooked and unjustly…
Slavery And Serfdom – A Violation Of Human Rights
Slavery was, in a very real sense, the first international human rights issue to come to the fore. It led to the adoption of the first human rights laws and to the creation of the first human…
Human Trafficking via Illegal Immigration – A Growing Menace
It is important to make a careful distinction between illegal immigration, human smuggling, and human trafficking which are nested, but yet different concepts. This distinction is relevant because these different categories of the illegal movement of people…
Human Rights and the Criminal Justice System of India
Human Rights are those rights which every individual possesses by his birth as a human being. In other words, it can be said that Human Rights are those minimal rights, which every independent person must have as…
Human Trafficking – Curbing The Vice Against Humanity
The menace of human trafficking is not only large but a growing practice that has become a major concern of 21st-century international policy. We would generally assume that with the society becoming open-minded and the kind of…
Women Empowerment – The Future is Female
This world is made by both men and women collectively. The responsibilities were in-fact heavier on the shoulders of women. Despite such importance, women in this society are not treated well. Exploitation and barbarity against them is…
Role of the Judiciary in safeguarding Child Rights.
Imagine a 12-year-old boy working for 10 hours in a factory without adequate facilities or an 11-year-old girl not getting education just because she is a girl or a 13 years old boy suffering molestation. In our…
Human Trafficking – A Vicious Trade
Trafficking necessarily doesn’t mean transporting people across national boundaries, it can even occur at a national level, within a country or community. People often confuse smuggling and trafficking as one and the same thing, but that’s not…
