India

Human Trafficking

Human trafficking is modern day slavery.  The United Nations say that around 12.5 million people are trafficked every year. 

Both men and woman from Bangladesh and Nepal are trafficked through India for forced labor and commercial sexual exploitation in the Middle East.  But some women and girls from Bangladesh and Nepal are trafficked for commercial sexual exploitation.  Children that are trafficked can be subjected to forced labor as factory workers, domestic servants, beggars, and agriculture workers.  They have also been used as armed soldiers by some terrorist and insurgent groups.

India is on the Tier 2 Watch List for a fifth in a row.  A country is put on the Tier 2 Watch List when they do not fully comply with the minimum standards for the removal of trafficking but are trying to making significant efforts to do so, and they meet one of the following criteria:
              1. they display high or significantly increasing number of victims
              2. they have failed to provide evidence of increasing efforts to combat trafficking in persons, or
              3. they have committed to take action over the next year.

Than a Tier 3 country neither satisfies the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking nor demonstrates a significant effort to do so. The countries that are in this tier are subject to potential non-humanitarian and non-trade sanctions.

Works Sited:

http://theresurgence.com/2010/02/22/what-is-human-trafficking

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

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/docs/notesanddefs.html?countryName=India&countryCode=in&regionCode=sas#2196