National Commission for Women (NCW) Chairperson Rekha Sharma stressed on the importance of preventing human trafficking at source for effective combat. “We have to focus on prevention of trafficking. NCW has set up its own Anti-Human Trafficking Cell and this is just the beginning. Through today’s seminar, we all have to find the way forward in promoting awareness around human trafficking and its effective combat,” she said.
She was speaking at a one-day seminar on Anti Human Trafficking Awareness organized by NCW, in collaboration with Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D).
Balaji Srivastava, Director General, BPR&D presiding over the seminar said that BPR&D has been organizing many seminars and capacity building workshops on different topics such as cyber crime, women security and this collaborative effort with NCW would go a long way in promoting awareness around human trafficking.
In the technical session on ‘‘Introduction: Concept, Patterns and Existing Response Systems of Human Trafficking’, EX-DG, NDRF and Ex-Chair Professor, TISS, PM Nair stressed on creating a synergy between enforcement agencies, Police and NGOs for combating human trafficking and to take forward the movement to youth and panchayat level for effective prevention.
“Setting up AHTC is easy but handholding is necessary. Empowering the youth, panchayats, NGOs against human trafficking will help in making a difference. Spot it, speak it, do it, stop it,” he added.
AIG, SISF, Madhya Pradesh Police, Veerendra Mishra focused on 4Ps for combating human trafficking; Prevention, Protection, Prosecution and Participation and the role of criminal justice system and social justice system in trafficking. “Trafficking is exploitation of vulnerability and addressing the causes of vulnerability is important to prevent human trafficking,” in the session on ‘Different Dimensions of Human Trafficking’.
