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24/07/2018

‘India Must Align Its New Anti-Trafficking Bill with International Human Rights Law’

Human Wrongs Watch

India must revise its planned new legislation to tackle trafficking in persons so that the measures proposed are in line with international human rights law, on 23 July 2018 said two independent UN human rights experts.

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Italian Coastguard/Massimo Sestini The Italian Navy rescues migrants in the Mediterranean Sea. | Photo from UN News Centre.

Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, and Urmila Boola, Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, said in a statement that they were “gravely concerned” about the bill as presented by the Government to the Indian Parliament last week.

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