Migration Gone Wrong. Linkages between Trafficking and HIV
- Document number
- 2105
- Date
- 2007
- Title
- Migration Gone Wrong. Linkages between Trafficking and HIV
- Author/publisher
- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
- Availability
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- Document type(s)
- Research/Study/Analysis,
- Keywords
- Women's rights; Women; Control and regulation of prostitution, Protection, HIV/AIDS, Health, Poverty, India
- Summary
- The linkages between trafficking and HIV, on the face of it, are obvious; both in terms of risk and vulnerability of trafficked victims to HIV infection. However, these linkages have only just been explored; till very recently, trafficking and HIV have been dealt with separately, neither mainstreamed into the other. The legal and policy framework within which we engage with the issue of internal trafficking in India is, at the very least, a very limiting one. It is based on a narrow understanding of trafficking, namely trafficking equals commercial sexual exploitation. The current legal framework tries to regularize and control sex work in order to reduce trafficking; and in doing so addresses the outcomes of trafficking through increased policing and a ‘crime' reduction strategy. The existing policy and legal framework still does not address trafficking that occurs due to increased demand for cheap labour, for instance. It also does not take into account trafficking as a function of unsafe migration.
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