Special legislation against child prostitution sought
Sandesh Prabhudesai in Panaji
The National Commission for Women has recommended that the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation countries enact a special legislation to tackle the rising flesh trade.
A large number of prostitutes, especially children, are abducted and brought to India from Bangladesh and Nepal. The law enforcement agencies are found to be in connivance with the traders, NCW chairperson Mohini Giri said.
Similarly, in the recent past, paedophiles from western countries have been flocking
Indian destinations like Goa. But very little has been done to contain this.
"A special legislation is the need of the hour," observed justice (retd) V R Krishna Iyer at the NCW conference in Panaji. "Simply tinkering
with the toothless existing laws is futile. The face of
prostitution is changing very fast with liberalisation and globalisation."
The special legislation should have provisions for punishing traffickers, pimps and madams (rather than the victims), prohibiting child employment in tourism and hotel industries and banning ''traditional'' forms of sexual exploitation.
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