Trafficking of Women in India - Annotated Bibliography

Running head: TRAFFICKING OF WOMEN IN INDIA
TRAFFICKING OF WOMEN IN INDIA – ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Chatterjee, P. (2008). Anti-human-trafficking law sparks debate in India. The
Lancet, 371(9617), 975-976.
In this article, Chatterjee (2008) argues that the anti-human-trafficking law that has
been introduced aim to render the practice of payment for having sex illegal. The author
argues that this might lead to the total business revolving round the sex trade to go
underground thereby leading to an increase in the risk of the spread of the sexually
transmitted diseases among both the sex workers and the concerned clients.
The author had surveyed the various organizations and the various members of the
society who conformed the fact that there had been a number of surveys that assert the fact
that there has been a huge number of people in the country who had been who have been
suffering from HIV.
This article has proved to be of help for the study since it deals with the legal
conditions that may arise as a result of the human trafficking that has been a huge issue in the
subcontinent.
Chatterjee, P. (2014). Human Trafficking and Commercialization of Surrogacy in
India. European researcher. Series A, (10-2), 1835-1842.
In this article Chatterjee (2014), points out the fact that the commercial surrogacy has
been legalized in the Indian subcontinent. This condition has arisen in the subcontinent due
the fact that the citizens of the country have been living below the poverty level which has
led to the increase of the trafficking of the female members who have been a part of the
illiterate and poorer sections of the society.
In order to complete this study, Chatterjee had taken into account the various cases of
human trafficking that were reported all over the country. There have been many reports that

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tend to depict the various conditions wherein the women from the various parts of the country
were trafficked to the foreign lands wherein they were forced to become surrogate mothers.
This article has been helpful in the course of the concerned study since this depicts yet
another reason for the trafficking of the female residents of the country.
Deane, T. (2010). Cross-border trafficking in Nepal and India—violating women’s
rights. Human rights review, 11(4), 491-513.
Deane (2010), in the concerned article has put forth the argument that the women and
the children are being trafficked internally as well as beyond the borders especially in the
countries of India and Nepal. The trafficked children are mostly forced into the roles of the
child soldiers, they are often forced to serve as the domestic helps, serve as entertainers in the
circuses or at the various factories. Deane, in this article tries to probe into the laws of both
the countries that pertain to the areas of the human trafficking and the forced prostitution
among the female members of the country.
In order to complete the study, the author took into account the comparison of the
various laws of the countries that deal with the issues pertaining to the issues related to the
human trafficking and forced prostitution that is prevalent in the crime scenes of the
countries.
This article might assist the studies by looking at the legal aspects of the subcontinent
that deal with the issues of human trafficking and forced labor of the trafficked children and
girls.