Fighting Women and Child Trafficking

Women and children trafficking is undoubtedly a terrible crime against humanity. It is also severe form of human rights violation. In fact, women and children of downtrodden families who are unemployed, survive below the subsistence level are mainly the victims of trafficking as they are allured for better job and compensation abroad. Trafficked women and children are employed in unsocial, humiliating, deadly and hazardous jobs. Women are forced to the nasty profession like prostitution and male children are sometimes used as camel jockeys in the countries of middle-east. It is said that fifteen to twenty thousand women and children are trafficked from our country every year through different borders. Traffickers act as a group or as a member of syndicate and find this immoral career very much profitable. Though Bangladesh government has already enacted a law on women and children trafficking which promulgated life term imprisonment for the offender, there are some economic and social problems which are responsible for women and children trafficking such as serious poverty, high rate of unemployment, economic and social disparity, sluggish security system, illiteracy, ignorance, unconsciousness and migration of the people to other countries. On the other hand, Bangladesh is a characteristically supportive for human trafficking for its geographical location as about 31 districts of the country are adjacent to the national boarders of India and Mayanmar.