Annual Report - National Human Rights Commission

Annexure 10
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be prohibited from re-entering the same. Also the fine amount imposed under Section
20(4)(b) may be suitably raised to act as a deterrent measure against the above mentioned
persons.
4. Suitable amendment in the ITPA to allow for voluntary admission or referral by any
citizen or NGO of women into any shelter, be it Protective Home, State Home, Reception
Centre or Short-Stay Home, who is in need of temporary shelter or feels vulnerable to
being trafficked. Such admission should be allowed at any hour of the day/ night and may
be ratified before the appropriate magistrate within 24 hours by the Superintendent of the
institution.
Recommendations related to the Victims:
Phase I: Prevention
Problem: Lack of systematic data and focus on trafficking prone areas and analysis of reasons
behind trafficking at those places, leading to large-scale trafficking and re-trafficking of women
and children from certain districts to the supply areas.
Recommendations:
1. Trafficking prone areas and districts should be identified in the States with the twin
objectives of awareness generation and generation of viable economic options. This would
facilitate in spreading information about various government welfare services and antipoverty
schemes to even the remotest areas.
2. Need to set up a national database and a quick-response tracing mechanism and
coordinating structure for missing children and women – intra and inter State, within the
police system to prevent trafficking.
3. Necessary structure should be set up for Inter-Departmental Coordination between the
police, judiciary and government institutions for rescued victims with regard to rescue
and rehabilitation process at the district level and State and Central level Advisory Bodies
to monitor inter-State and cross-border trafficking.
4. Proper follow-up mechanism should be established through the proposed district level
coordinating structure for women and children after they have been repatriated to
prevent re-trafficking. Similarly, a coordinating structure should be established between
the respective governments of those countries which act as supply, demand or transit
zones for proper follow-up.
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