Legislative and Reformative Approaches to Combat Trafficking of Women and Children in India

Society and culture play important roles in satisfying the needs of every human group. At the same time, it is also true that certain sections of society have their place at the margins of mainstream culture and thus their marginalization becomes the focal point of victimization. Women and children face many such problems in society and resultant that their exploitation becomes continuous affairs in the hands of dominant people. Trafficking is one of the worst forms of human exploitation in which both women and children become safe targets. There are various socio-cultural and socio-economic factors responsible for the trafficking of women and children in economically poor countries of the world. India is also facing such problems being a developing country. The present paper attempts to highlight the efforts taken in India for protecting and restoring the rights of victims of trafficking.