ABOUT SLARTC

Mission

Role & Intervention

Affiliations

SLARTC's Role

Individual counselling for the victims with a focus on Exploration, Ventilation and Emotional Support

Restoration to the family after professional intervention and follow-up of such cases

Trauma counselling and stress management programmes for the victims of rape

Repatriation in cases of cross-border trafficking

Organising state and national networks for lobbying, advocacy, and sensitization pf policy makers for a better co-ordinated approach and action

Coordinating linkages with different programmes related to child and woman rights, for collaborative action for elimination of trafficking and sexual abuse

Sensitization of CBOs, Panchayats and traditional groups to ensure progressive action for preventing trafficking

Conducting training programmes for the personnel related to the J. J. Act and Rescue Homes, thereby strengthening the existing setup and creating need-based resource centres for the 3 As - Attention, Affection and Appreciation

Establishing contacts / linkages with NGO networks in Bangladesh and Nepal and within the country to make arrangements for restoration and repatriation of children and women rescued from different parts of the India

Undertaking documentation and formation of IEC materials to disseminate information and impart education

Providing legal intervention and counselling - group and individual - to all the inmates of SMM Home (through the verdict of the Calcutta High Court, SLARTC has an MOU with the Social Welfare Department to look after all the cases of SMM Home, Liluah)

Developing a database of all the inmates of SMM Home, Liluah, including their personal and legal information

STOP TRAFFICKING

UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

Article 34: States Parties undertake to protect the child from all forms of sexual exploitation and sexual abuse. For this purpose, States Parties in particular, shall take all appropriate national, bilateral and multilateral measures to prevent:

a) The inducement or coercion of a child to engage in any unlawful sexual activity;

b) The exploitative use of children in prostitution or other unlawful sexual practices;

c) The exploitative use of children in pornographic performances and materials.

Article 35: States Parties shall take all appropriate national, bilateral and multilateral measures to prevent the abduction or the sale of or traffic in children for any purpose or in any form.

Article 35: States Parties shall protect the child against all other forms of exploitation prejudicial to any aspects of the child's welfare.

Constitution of India

Article 23 Prohibition of traffic in human beings and forced labour:

(i) Traffic in human beings, beggary and other similar forms of forced labour are prohibited and any contravention of this provision shall be an offence punishable in accordance with the law.

Article 39 Certain principles of policy to be followed by the State:

(f) The state shall, in particular, direct its policy towards securing that children are given opportunities and facilities to develop in a healthy manner and in conditions of freedom and dignity and that childhood and youth are protected against exploitation and against moral and material abandonment.

OTHER HIGHLIGHTS

Child Trafficking

Child Labour