What must change before traffickers reach children
The article highlights the persistent issue of child trafficking in India, detailing its organized nature and the vulnerabilities exploited. It critiques the fragmented legal response, advocating for a unified law and a comprehensive 'whole-of-government' and 'whole-of-society' approach encompassing prevention, rescue, rehabilitation, and prosecution. It emphasizes judicial interventions, international cooperation, and disrupting the economic drivers of trafficking, stressing that a 'Viksit Bharat' must ensure every child is protected by the rule of law.
The article highlights the persistent issue of child trafficking in India, detailing its organized nature and the vulnerabilities exploited. It critiques the fragmented legal response, advocating for a unified law and a comprehensive 'whole-of-government' and 'whole-of-society' approach encompassing prevention, rescue, rehabilitation, and prosecution. It emphasizes judicial interventions, international cooperation, and disrupting the economic drivers of trafficking, stressing that a 'Viksit Bharat' must ensure every child is protected by the rule of law.
Exam linkage
GS-I: Social issues (Women and children related issues, social empowerment). GS-II: Governance (Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation); Social Justice (Welfare schemes for vulnerable sections of the population by the Centre and States and the performance of these schemes; mechanisms, laws, institutions and Bodies constituted for the protection and betterment of these vulnerable sections); Judiciary (Structure, organization and functioning of the Executive and the Judiciary). GS-III: Internal Security (Organized crime and its linkages).