Trafficking means the movement of vehicles, ships, persons, etc., in an area. In India it is very populated by men, women, and children and therefore is much trafficked. For the fifth consecutive year India is on the Tier 2 Watch List. The Tier 2 Watch List is a list of all the countries whose governments do not fully comply with the TVPA’s minimum standards, but are making significant efforts to bring themselves into compliance with those standards. Also, “the absolute number of victims of severe forms of trafficking is very significant or is significantly increasing; or there is a failure to provide evidence of increasing efforts to combat severe forms of trafficking in persons from the previous year; or the determination that a country is making significant efforts to bring themselves into compliance with minimum standards was based on commitments by the country to take additional future steps over the next year”. However, India is on the Tier 2 Watch List because of its failure to provide evidence of increasing efforts to combat human trafficking in 2007.
India has the largest number of child workers in the world. Many of the children work in hazardous industries. A Madras School of Social Work study found that among children employed as mechanics, factory and construction workers and weavers, 31 percent worked 10 to 11 hours daily and 22 percent worked 12 to 13 hours. In the unorganized sectors, children were paid piece rates, resulting in even longer hours for very low pay. In India’s commercial capital, Mumbai (Bombay), there are thousands of small units known as “zari factories”. Boys aged 6-14 work 20 hours a day, seven days a week, kneeling at low tables sewing beads and colored threads on to vast lengths of fabric.
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