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.
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