2.1 Introduction
Children are the human resources, invaluable but vulnerable, yet developing with a potentiality to bloom with joy in an atmosphere of a caring society. They are the great promises of tomorrow, the dawn of human society and buds of social development. Human Rights constitute the greatest blessing on the people of tender age as they have enormous potentiality of influencing the legal and social system to build a regime of protecting children and initiating social transformation. The Supreme Court in Bandhua Mukti Morcha , “A child of today cannot develop to be a responsible and productive member of tomorrow’s society unless an environment which is conducive to his social and physical health is assured to him. Every nation, …show more content…
The meaning of child trafficking can be drawn in the lines of
Child: A child is a person under the age of 18 years.
Organized movement of a child: Trafficking implies that someone has organized the movement of a child with the immediate or ultimate aim of the child's exploitation. This could involve a transaction where someone receives payment or a benefit to agree to a child being exploited.
Purpose of the movement: All those who have contributed to it and knew that what they did was likely to lead to the exploitation of the child-recruiters, intermediaries, document providers, transporters, corrupt officials, employers and exploiters are traffickers. Conversely, a person moving a child without the intention, knowledge or suspicion that the child would be exploited is not likely to be a …show more content…
At the outset, it needs to be clarified that at present, there is no one clear legal definition of the child. The legal definition varies with the specific legislations and conventions.
The Child Marriage Restraint Act, 1929, as amended in 1978, child means a person who if a male is under 21 years of age and if a female is under 18 years of age.
The Factories Act, 1948, child is a person who has not completed his fifteen years of age and young person mean a person who is either a child or an adolescent.
The Bombay Shops and Establishment Act, 1948, child means a person who has not completed his fifteenth year of age; but does not include a person who has, before the date of commencement of the Bombay Shops and Establishments (Amendment) Act, 1977, completed his twelfth year of age even though he has not completed his fifteenth year of age, if he is on the day immediately preceding the said date an employee in any establishment to which this Act applies.
The Indian Mines Act, 1951 defines child as a person who has not completed the age of fifteen
Children are the human resources, invaluable but vulnerable, yet developing with a potentiality to bloom with joy in an atmosphere of a caring society. They are the great promises of tomorrow, the dawn of human society and buds of social development. Human Rights constitute the greatest blessing on the people of tender age as they have enormous potentiality of influencing the legal and social system to build a regime of protecting children and initiating social transformation. The Supreme Court in Bandhua Mukti Morcha , “A child of today cannot develop to be a responsible and productive member of tomorrow’s society unless an environment which is conducive to his social and physical health is assured to him. Every nation, …show more content…
The meaning of child trafficking can be drawn in the lines of
Child: A child is a person under the age of 18 years.
Organized movement of a child: Trafficking implies that someone has organized the movement of a child with the immediate or ultimate aim of the child's exploitation. This could involve a transaction where someone receives payment or a benefit to agree to a child being exploited.
Purpose of the movement: All those who have contributed to it and knew that what they did was likely to lead to the exploitation of the child-recruiters, intermediaries, document providers, transporters, corrupt officials, employers and exploiters are traffickers. Conversely, a person moving a child without the intention, knowledge or suspicion that the child would be exploited is not likely to be a …show more content…
At the outset, it needs to be clarified that at present, there is no one clear legal definition of the child. The legal definition varies with the specific legislations and conventions.
The Child Marriage Restraint Act, 1929, as amended in 1978, child means a person who if a male is under 21 years of age and if a female is under 18 years of age.
The Factories Act, 1948, child is a person who has not completed his fifteen years of age and young person mean a person who is either a child or an adolescent.
The Bombay Shops and Establishment Act, 1948, child means a person who has not completed his fifteenth year of age; but does not include a person who has, before the date of commencement of the Bombay Shops and Establishments (Amendment) Act, 1977, completed his twelfth year of age even though he has not completed his fifteenth year of age, if he is on the day immediately preceding the said date an employee in any establishment to which this Act applies.
The Indian Mines Act, 1951 defines child as a person who has not completed the age of fifteen