ABSTRACT
This chapter points out the shocking neglect to deal with trafficking. Ironically, missing girls and women during disasters are nowhere accounted in much of the government data. Around 2,25,000 women and children are trafficked from the Southeast Asian countries every year, accounting for approximately one-third of the global human flesh trade. India has served as a destination and transit point of trafficking victims from Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan. Trafficking of vulnerable persons, especially women and young girls, is directly proportional to the disasters. Taking note of the inadequacy of the laws to deal with the various forms of human trafficking that take place during disasters, the Indian Disasters Management Act, 2005, along with certain provisions of the constitution of India and the role played by the Supreme Court of India in addressing issues of sexual exploitations of women, can show the way towards combating human trafficking of women and young girls in the context of disasters. The present chapter focuses on the issue of human trafficking in women and young girls, which takes place rampantly during disasters. The public authorities also fret at the data on disability.
