New Delhi:
India's efforts to combat human trafficking seem to be paying off. The US state department has released its latest Trafficking in Persons report, upgrading India to Tier 2.
India had been in the "Watch List" for 6 years. The annual report ranks countries on the seriousness of the problem of human trafficking and efforts to combat it.
India's better performance is being linked to efforts across the country to tackle trafficking, mainly crackdown by magistrates in Tamil Nadu and in Mumbai.
The Union Home Ministry had in 2009 also asked all districts in the country to set up Anti Trafficking cells to combat the problem. Every year 70,000 people, largely women and children go missing in the country with the majority believed to having been trafficked or sold. While Sri Lanka also came out of the watch list to "Tier 2" this year, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and China continue to be in the "Tier 2" watch list as countries highly vulnerable to trafficking.
The report analysed conditions in 184 nations, including the United States, and ranked them in terms of their effectiveness in fighting what many have termed modern-day slavery.
The State Department estimates that as many as 27 million men, women and children are living in such bondage around the world.
"All countries can and must do more," Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said in presenting the report.
"More human beings are being exploited today than ever before. We're at a critical moment in this fight," she said on Monday.
India had been in the "Watch List" for 6 years. The annual report ranks countries on the seriousness of the problem of human trafficking and efforts to combat it.
India's better performance is being linked to efforts across the country to tackle trafficking, mainly crackdown by magistrates in Tamil Nadu and in Mumbai.
The Union Home Ministry had in 2009 also asked all districts in the country to set up Anti Trafficking cells to combat the problem. Every year 70,000 people, largely women and children go missing in the country with the majority believed to having been trafficked or sold. While Sri Lanka also came out of the watch list to "Tier 2" this year, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and China continue to be in the "Tier 2" watch list as countries highly vulnerable to trafficking.
The report analysed conditions in 184 nations, including the United States, and ranked them in terms of their effectiveness in fighting what many have termed modern-day slavery.
The State Department estimates that as many as 27 million men, women and children are living in such bondage around the world.
"All countries can and must do more," Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said in presenting the report.
"More human beings are being exploited today than ever before. We're at a critical moment in this fight," she said on Monday.
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