Trafficking In Persons 2009-India On Tier 2 Watch List

India, a country which has incredibly jailed over 1,30,000 women since 2004, under much abused laws of crimes against women, finds itself on the Tier-2 watch list of countries in the annual report on Trafficking in Persons-2009,  compiled by the US State Dept.

A country is placed on the Tier-2 watch list if the absolute number of victims of severe forms of trafficking is very significant or is significantly increasing. Tier-1 countries are those that are doing well in combating this evil.

The Feminazis of India bear a chunk of responsibility for this state of affairs; they focused the resources and the attention of the country and the media on non-existent issues such as abandoned Indian brides, through a relentless  and ultimately useless campaign based on imaginary numbers and a less than noble agenda.

I had highlighted the inaction of the agencies (NCW, WCD) headed by Indian Feminazis, such as Girija Vyas, in combating real crimes against women and children in an earlier post titled:

“Sex Tourism In Goa: What Are The NCW And WCD Doing ?”

Here is an interesting report from 2003 by UNIFEM-NHRC:

Traficking in Women And Children In India 2002-2004

Here is another report from the UN on the India specific part:

UN-TIP-India-2009

Here is an interesting statistic. The number people arrested under this heinous crime is a lot less than the number of women arrested under 498A and this number is FALLING. Good work Girija Vyas:

The graph below indicates the downward trend since the year these Feminazis were appointed to head key agencies such as the WCD and the NCW:

Moving on to the State Dept report, here is an excerpt:

“Despite these significant efforts, India has not demonstrated sufficient progress in its law enforcement efforts to address human trafficking, particularly bonded labor; therefore India is placed on Tier 2 Watch List. India’s central government faces several challenges in demonstrating a more robust anti-trafficking effort: states under the Indian Constitution have the primary responsibility for law enforcement, and state-level authorities are limited in their abilities to effectively confront interstate and transnational trafficking crimes; complicity in trafficking by many Indian law enforcement officials and overburdened courts impede effective prosecutions; widespread poverty continues to provide a huge source of vulnerable people; and the Indian government faces other equally pressing priorities such as basic healthcare, education, and counter terrorism.”

Here is the India specific part I extracted from the State Dept Report:

Traficking In Persons-India-Specific-2009

Here are the State Dept Reports:

http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/

Here is the explanation of the tiers:

Tier Placement

The Department places each country in the 2009 TIP Report onto one of the three tier lists as mandated by the TVPA. This placement is based more on the extent of government action to combat trafficking than on the size of the problem, although that is also an important factor. The Department first evaluates whether the government fully complies with the TVPA’s minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking (detailed on page 314). Governments that fully comply are placed on Tier 1. For other governments, the Department considers the extent of efforts to reach compliance.

Governments that are making significant efforts to meet the minimum standards are placed on Tier 2. Governments that do not fully comply with the minimum standards and are not making significant efforts to do so are placed on Tier 3. Finally, the Department considers the Special Watch List criteria and, when applicable, moves Tier 2 countries to Tier 2 Watch List.

The TVPA lists three factors by which to determine whether a country should be on Tier 2 (or Tier 2 Watch List) versus Tier 3: (1) the extent to which the country is a country of origin, transit, or destination for severe forms of trafficking; (2) the extent to which the country’s government does not comply with the TVPA’s minimum standards including, in particular, the extent to which officials or government employees have been complicit in severe forms of trafficking; and (3) the government’s resources and capabilities to address and eliminate severe forms of trafficking in persons.

Tier 2 Watch List

The TVPA requires that certain countries be placed on a Special Watch List. This includes countries in which:

a. The absolute number of victims of severe forms of trafficking is very significant or is significantly increasing;

b. There is a failure to provide evidence of increasing efforts to combat severe forms of trafficking in persons from the previous year, including increased investigations, prosecutions, and convictions of trafficking crimes; increased assistance to victims; and decreasing evidence of complicity in severe forms of trafficking by government officials; or

c. The determination that a country is making significant efforts to bring itself into compliance with the minimum standards was based on commitments by the country to take additional steps over the next year.

Countries that meet one of these three criteria are placed onto what the Department of State has termed the “Tier 2 Watch List.” There were 40 countries on Tier 2 Watch List in the June 2008 report. Two additional countries were reassessed as Tier 2 Watch List countries in November 2008. The Department of State included these 42 countries in an “Interim Assessment” released on January 27, 2009.

Of these 42 countries on Tier 2 Watch List at the time of the Interim Assessment, 11 moved up to Tier 2 in this report, while four fell to Tier 3 and 27 remain on Tier 2 Watch List. Countries on Tier 2 Watch List in this report will be re-examined in the next Interim Assessment, which will be submitted to the U.S. Congress by February 1, 2010.

Amendments made by the TVPRA of 2008 provide that any country that has been ranked Tier 2 Watch List for two consecutive years (beginning with the 2009 Report) will be ranked Tier 3, unless the President waives application of this provision based on a determination that, among other things, the government has a written plan for meeting the TVPA’s minimum standards.

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