The Ministry of Women and Child Development has drawn up a protocol that will take a personalized, sympathetic, and sensitive approach towards the victims of child trafficking in India. Does this signal that we are finally shifting our attitudes towards looking at victims as "victims" and not "criminals," while the real criminals go scot-free?
This protocol covers important aspects such as maintaining the privacy of the victims, providing them with rehabilitative resources, and most importantly demands that rescue workers not manhandle or use abusive language with the rescued individuals. This is critical as the Indian society is well known for placing the blame on the very individuals forced into the sex industry. Also, someone in the Ministry has finally realized that well trained social workers are an essential component of the rescue and rehabilitation efforts, and towards that end has set aside provisions to maintain Child Welfare Officers at police stations. How far these measures will be realized is ofcourse a different story...
But the initiation of such protocols is a very positive step. Hopefully we will see this advance into protocols for sensitive treatment of rape victims by police and rescue personnel.
An Indian Express article covering this can be read at:
http://www.indianexpress.com/story/10765.html
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