P. A. Chacko
Human Trafficking is increasingly becoming an ugly global phenomenon. Human trafficking is trade of persons treated as commercial commodity. It has various manifestations: forced labour, sexual slavery, commercial exploitation, providing spouses through forced marriages etc. It includes also sale of dead bodies, extraction and sale of organs, using people as guinea pigs for experimentation and research, cheap labour and exploitation in household jobs, kidnapping etc.
According a research, every year 33,000 girls and women are victims of trafficking in Jharkhand. It is estimated most of the girls are below 18 years of age. Those who recommend or recruit girls or women for household jobs should be extremely careful in not becoming agents of human trafficking.
To tackle the evil of human trafficking, governments, NGOs, schools, colleges and other social institutions have a great role.