The Anti-Trafficking Bill 2018 – media coverage
This page archives the media coverage of the Anti Trafficking Bill 2018. We have included all the media articles that we could locate online, irrespective of whether we agree with the contents or not. Please let us know if we have missed anything.
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26 Dec 2018, Madras Courier - Dear Lok Sabha, Stop Criminalising Our Bodies And Lives
26 Dec 2018, Feminism India - Transgender, trafficking bills spark outrage
25 Dec 2018, The Hindu - Muddled Morality: An Attempt at Criminalising Transgender Community
25 Dec 2018, News Click - Bengaluru: Transgenders protest against amendments to the anti-trafficking bill
23 Dec 2018, Times of India (video) - Good intentions aren’t enough
22 Dec 2018, Indian Express - Transgenders stage protest against Anti-Trafficking Bill
22 Dec 2018, The Hans India - Sex workers coalition writes to RS Chair, asking him to send Trafficking Bill to Select Committee
21 Dec 2018, The Hindu - Discussing the trafficking bill
21 Dec 2018, The Hans India - Redraft Trafficking Bill’: Activists, trans persons tweet against legislation
20 Dec 2018, The News Minute - Anti-trafficking Bill: No, it does not take away sex workers’ rights. Here’s how
20 Dec 2018, Daily IO - How govt’s bill for trafficking victims will make sex workers less safe
19 Dec 2018, Business Standard - India’s proposed anti-trafficking law may end up targeting sex workers
18 Dec 2018, Quartz (Simanti Dasgupta) - The devil in the details: India’s anti-trafficking bill
18 Dec 2018, Reuters (Prabha Kotiswaran and Joel Quirk) - New anti-trafficking bill awaits Rajya Sabha nod; activists laud focus on rehabilitation, preventive measures
18 Dec 2018, First Post (Pallavi Rebbapragada) - Bill to ‘Protect’ Trafficking Victims Make Sex Workers Less Safe
18 Dec 2018, Quint (Simanti Dasgupta) - Demand to amend Anti-Trafficking Bill
18 Dec 2018, The Hans India - Transgender activists cry foul over draft laws
18 Dec 2018, Deccan Herald - The Trafficking of Persons (Prevention, Protection and Rehabilitation) Bill, 2018
PRS Legislative Research, India - India’s anti-trafficking bill could be made stronger by looking to local systems that help prevent forced prostitution
17 Dec 2018, First Post - Human trafficking survivors from urge govt, pol parties to pass Anti-trafficking bill in winter session of parliament
15 Dec 2018, United News of India - Cutting across party lines, MPs come together in support of Anti-Trafficking Bill
15 Dec 2018, DB Post - Delhi: Trafficking survivors seek shield in law
15 Dec 2018 - Can the anti-trafficking bill put a stop to inter-State trafficking?
14 Dec 2018, Indian Express - Scandals in sex worker rescue shelters: is ‘awful’ distracting from ‘lawful’?
12 Dec 2018, Open Democracy (Kimberly Walter) - Law against human trafficking must look beyond rehabilitation of survivors
10 Dec 2018, Telegraph India (Editorial) - Kamal Haasan Urges PM Modi To Discuss Anti-Trafficking Bill In Parliament
7 Dec 2018, NDTV - Against the System of Forced Rescue and Institutionalisation in India
6 Dec 2018, Linked In (Kimberly Walter) - Trafficking survivors in postcard plea to Narendra Modi
6 Dec 2018, Telegraph India - Hope Rajya Sabha will pass anti-trafficking bill: Maneka Gandhi
1 Dec 2018, Times of India - Protect Indian sex workers’ right to reject rehab, say campaigners after reports of abuse
26 Nov 2018, Reuters - The Trauma of rehabilitation
3 August 2018, India Today, Prabha Kotiswaran - Anti-Trafficking Bill 2018 Fails to Address Changing Forms of Labour Exploitation
31 July 2018, Nalini Nayak, EPW - A recipe for injustice: India’s new trafficking bill expands a troubled rescue, rehabilitation, and repatriation framework
30 July 2018, Open Democracy (Kimberly Walters and Vibhuti Ramachandran) - India must bring its new anti-trafficking Bill in line with human rights law, urge UN experts
23 July 2018, OHCHR, United Nations - How India can go forward on tackling human trafficking
23 July 2018, Hindustan Times - Rethinking the 2018 Trafficking Bill
18 July 2018, Articles in the EPW - India’s “Anti-Trafficking” Bill Ignores Socio-Economic Realities of Trafficked Persons
13 July 2018, EPW, Bandana Pattanaik and Leah Sullivan - Will Trafficking Bill 2018 Harm Bonded Labourers?
13 July 2018, EPW, Kiran Kamal Prasad - The criminal law as sledgehammer: the paternalist politics of India’s 2018 Trafficking Bill
9 July 2018, Open Democracy - Comments on Trafficking Of Persons )Prevention, Protection and Rehabilitation Bill, 2018
8 July 2018, Coalition for an Inclusive Approach on the Trafficking Bill - We don’t need the Trafficking of Persons (Prevention, Protection and Rehabilitation) Bill, 2018
Lawyers Collective - Submission On Trafficking Of Persons Bill, 2018
8 May 2018, Amnesty International
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