Conviction rate low for traffickers in India: US

Washington, June 29: Noting that the conviction rate, investigations, prosecutions and convictions in India were “disproportionately low” relative to the scale of human trafficking, the US has continued to place the country in ‘ Tier 2’ of its annual report on trade of humans.

The US State Department in its annual Trafficking in Persons Report for 2018 urged India to increase prosecutions and convictions for all forms of trafficking, including forced and bonded labour, and of officials allegedly complicit in it.

“The government of India does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking, however, it is making significant efforts to do so. The government demonstrated increasing efforts compared to the previous reporting period, therefore India remained on Tier 2,” the department said.

The Department places each country in this report onto one of four tiers, as mandated by The Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 ( TVPA) of the US.

Tier 2 suggests that the government of the country does not fully meet the TVPA's minimum standards, but is making significant efforts to bring itself into compliance with those standards.— PTI

THE US has continued to place the country in ‘ Tier 2’ of its annual report on trade of humans.