Beyond Morality to Modern Slavery: A Critical Appraisal of India’s Anti-Trafficking Framework under the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956 in Light of the Palermo Protocol

Human trafficking is a problem worldwide it is the third biggest type of organized crime. A lot of people are trafficked it is hard to know the number but it is millions. No country is safe from this problem, including India. India is a place where people are taken from moved through and brought to so it is really affected by human trafficking. Every year many people in India fall victim to trafficking both inside the country and across the borders. Even though people being trafficked across borders is a concern, most of the time it happens within India itself.The government has made some laws to try to stop this. The Constitution in Article 23 says that human trafficking is not allowed and the government has to do something about it and help the victims.. Even with these laws human trafficking still happens. The laws in India have not changed enough to deal with the problems of slavery. The government asked people what they thought about the proposed Trafficking in Persons Bill, 2021. It has not been made into a law yet. This article looks at the laws about trafficking, especially the Immoral Traffic Act, 1956 and the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 2013 and says that the laws need to be improved to deal with human trafficking, in India. Human trafficking is an issue and the laws need to be better to stop human trafficking. The government needs to do more to help the victims of trafficking and stop human trafficking from happening in India.