This is the seventh consecutive year that India has been placed in Tier Two Watch list of its annual report on human trafficking.
US today placed India on Tier Two watch list of human trafficking arguing that New Delhi has not demonstrated sufficient progress in its law enforcement, protection, or prevention efforts to address labour trafficking, particularly bonded labour.
This is the seventh consecutive year that India has been placed in Tier Two Watch list of its annual report on human trafficking. The 10th annual Trafficking in Persons Report was released by the state department today.
The report recommended that India strengthen central and state government law enforcement capacity to conduct intrastate and interstate law enforcement activities against labour trafficking (including bonded labour) and sex trafficking.
It also urged India to encourage state and district governments to file bonded labour cases under the appropriate criminal statutes to facilitate speedier justice and limit traffickers' opportunities for bail; encourage other states to establish Immoral Trafficking.
The report said India is a source, destination, and transit country for men, women, and children subjected to trafficking in persons, specifically forced labour and commercial sexual exploitation.
It said the Indian government does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking; however, it is making significant efforts to do so, particularly with regard to the law enforcement response to sex trafficking.
Despite these efforts, the Indian government has not demonstrated sufficient progress in its law enforcement, protection, or prevention efforts to address labour trafficking, particularly bonded labour; the report said explaining the reason why India has been placed in Tier Two of the Watch List.
Tier Two Watch List is a list of those countries whose governments do not fully comply with the Trafficking Victims Protection Acts's minimum standards, but are making significant efforts to bring themselves into compliance with those standards.
In her remarks, the secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, said, the report, for the first time, includes a ranking of the United States based on the same standards to which it hold other countries.
"The United States takes its first-ever ranking not as a reprieve but as a responsibility to strengthen global efforts against modern slavery, including those within America. This human rights abuse is universal, and no one should claim immunity from its reach or from the responsibility to confront it," she said.
The 10th annual Trafficking in Persons Report outlines the continuing challenges across the globe, including in the United States, Clinton said.
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