Annual Report - National Human Rights Commission

Rights of Women and Children
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generation, networking amongst various stakeholders, counselling, non-formal
education and vocational training for prevention of trafficking.
(vii)
(viii)
(ix)
(x)
(xi)
The Department has requested the Ministry of Tourism to implement the Global
Code of Ethics for Tourism which prohibits sexual exploitation of children for
purpose of sex tourism. In addition, Chief Secretaries of all the States/Union
Territories and Directors General (Tourism) have also been requested to make it
legally binding for the hotels, lodging/boarding houses to prominently display at the
reception counter anti-trafficking messages and penal provisions against sexual
exploitation.
The State Governments of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka had enacted
legislation to prohibit Devadasi and Jogin traditions of sexual exploitation.
The Department was preparing manuals for sensitization of the judiciary, medicolegal
officers and police personnel in dealing with the victims of trafficking, whichwere
at the stage of finalization. National Consultations in this regard were also being held.
A study on ‘Women in Prostitution in India’ was being carried out by Gram Niyojan
Kendra, Ghaziabad with financial assistance from the Department of Women and
Child Development.
The Department had started the process of bi-lateral dialogue with neighbouring
countries like Nepal and Bangladesh on cross border trafficking in consultation with
the Ministry of External Affairs.
8.13 On examination of the initiatives taken by the Department of Women and Child
Development, the Commission pointed out to the Department that barring serial numbers (vi),
(vii), (x) and (xi), which were new initiatives, the others were already in existence. As such, the
Department was once again requested to send the Action Taken Report on those recommendations
for which no initiatives had been taken so far. It is hoped that the Department of Women and
Child Development as well as the Ministry of Home Affairs would take appropriate action on
the recommendations made in the Final Report on the Issue of Trafficking by the Advisory
Council of Jurists of the Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions and inform
the Commission about those at the earliest.
4] Prevention of Sex Tourism and Trafficking
8.14 The Commission is conscious of the fact that trafficking in women and children is a
complex and multifaceted phenomenon interwoven with sex tourism, labour migration, forced
marriages, bonded labour and other similar practices. The NHRC’s Report on the Action
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