Human Trafficking

                In India there are many serious issues like human trafficking, child exploitation, and forced labor.  Human trafficking is the tricking of people away from their homelands to work under exploitative conditions.  There is human trafficking for men, women, and children.  They are trafficked for the purposes of labor and commercial sexual exploitation.  They are held in debt bondage.  They work in brick kilns, rice mills, agriculture, and factories.  Women and girls also are forced into marriage.  Children are forced to labor in factories and agriculture, and are forced to be servants and beggars.  India is the destination for women and girls from Nepal and Bengladesh.  They are trafficked for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation.  Some kids are also trafficked into India forced to work in circus shows. 
            There are forms of trafficking that are prohibited.  Penalties under the ITPA range from seven years to life in prison.  The laws are enforced.  Indian authorities use Penal Codes saying that they can no kidnap or sell minors into prostitution.  The punishment for the breaking of this rule is going to prison for 10 years and having to pay a fine.  When countries do not fully comply with the smallest of standards for the elimination of the trafficking but are trying their best to do so are on the Tier 2 Watch List.  India is on this list for the 5^th year in a row.  The government is trying to persecute traffickers and protect the trafficking victims.  Those are the punishments people would have to face if they break these rules.