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Indian bill to 'protect' trafficking victims will make sex workers less safe

  • Written by Simanti Dasgupta, Associate Professor, University of Dayton

Hoping to protect women from sexual exploitation, Indian lawmakers are pushing a bill that amends the criminal code to harden legal and financial penalties for sex trafficking.

The “Trafficking of Persons (Prevention, Protection and Rehabilitation) Bill,” which passed the lower house of India’s parliament in July 2018 and may...

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