prevent trafficking of tsunami-hit women

"Call to prevent trafficking of tsunami-hit women" 

New Delhi, Jan. 14. (UNI): Terming trafficking as the most depraved violation of human rights and dignity, NHRC Chairman, Justice A S Anand, on Thursday said the government must take immediate and effective steps to ward off "serious exploitation" of women and children in the aftermath of the devastating tsunami.

The government should put a proper system in place to prevent women, children and the vulnerable from being exploited by 'vultures' on the lookout for fish in troubled waters following the recent tsunami, Justice Anand said.

"There cannot be a worst case where one is treated as a cattle or a commodity, and for this NGOs and civil society have a gigantic task at hand and a greater role to play, going by the menacing global proportions trafficking has taken."

The trade has touched $ 8 billion and needs to be dealt with on a war footing, the National Human Rights Commission Chairman said while addressing a gathering at the release of English-Hindi glossary of Human Rights terms and posters on combating trafficking here.

"It is not just lack of sincereity, but also lack of awareness which is the cause of the civil society's indifference towards the malady. We need to join hands that those likely to be exploited are saved."

Even if one per cent of the vulnerable section is saved, the work of the NHRC is done, Justice Anand added.

Earlier, C D Tripathi, former Secretary (GOI) and panel member of the committee assigned to make the glossary, said the compilation of English terms in Hindi - the language of the masses - was important to actually get to the meaning of the 'affected lot'.

"Till we understand the term, it would be difficult to take appropriate and suitable remedial action. Hence the glossary," he said, adding that words are the basis where action starts.

Source:http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/holnus/002200501140311.htm