Annual Report - National Human Rights Commission

Annexure 12
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agencies like the NCRB. The portal should have sites on missing persons, intelligence and alert
notice on suspected traffickers, and fact sheets of research, surveys, conferences and workshops
being held by various agencies. The portal should have data on resource persons, anti-trafficking
networks and NGOs, who could be consulted and contacted by any person requiring their help.
The data could also include the details of agencies and donors who would like to render support
to the various activities. The sites have to be interactive so that they can function as help desk
and clearing house.
Differential Approach in Dealing with Trafficking in Children
The research has shown the high level of vulnerability of children especially girl children.
Therefore there is a need to develop and put to practice a distinctly different approach for children,
as separate from that of women, in all aspects of preventing and combating trafficking.
Prevention of Trafficking
Vulnerability Mapping of the Source Areas
This is an essential requirement for prevention of trafficking. The study has identified the various
source areas in the country. It has also shown how the source areas shift from one place to
another and even from one state to another. Therefore, no area can be permanently branded as
the exclusive source area. It needs careful understanding by the various stakeholders to identify
the source area, as any vulnerable area could develop into a source area. District officials, along
with NGOs working in the field, are the appropriate agencies to take on such micro studies. The
mapping has to be done keeping all the parameters and dimensions in view and not only from
the law and order perspective. It should be participatory, involving the community, the survivor
and the victim. Since panchayati raj institutions (PRIs) have a major role to play, their services
should be utilized. The initiatives of Tamil Nadu government in involving PRIs could be thought
of as a model.
The situation in the northeastern part of the country demands special attention. Trafficking of
women and children in this region cuts across the different states and extends beyond national
boundaries, involving Bangladesh, Myanmar, etc., but since the present study covered only
Meghalaya and Assam, it is essential that micro studies be carried out exclusively in this region
to understand the dimensions of trafficking specific to the region, and take appropriate steps to
deal with the situation. The study should specifically focus on the trafficking that takes place
through More in Manipur, and Pangsa and Dimapur in Nagaland. Simultaneously, efforts need
to be made to address the extreme vulnerability situations that the women and children in this
area are subjected to, especially resulting from the ethnic clashes and conflicts which have affected
this area for a long time.
Vulnerability Mapping of the Demand Areas
Since trafficking is an organized crime, the exploiters are, without doubt, criminals, and action
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