Human Trafficking in India: A Gendered Human Rights Failure Rooted in Structural Inequality
Human trafficking in India is often discussed as a crime, an illegal activity that needs to be controlled with the help of law enforcement and rescue operations. While criminal justice responses are important, this framing alone is not complete. Trafficking is not just a crime but a systematic social failure of human rights that is deeply rooted in gender inequality, poverty, discrimination, illiteracy, and social exclusion. Its persistence shows not only the actions of traffickers, but the...
