India's strategy for rescuing and reintegrating child victims of labour trafficking is marred by poor coordination, a lack of accountability and inadequate resources that can leave children at risk of further harm, Harvard researchers say.
There must be a comprehensive, sustained effort to address these issues, rather than the current short-term approach to return children to the same circumstances that led to their trafficking in the first place, the researchers said in a report released this week.
"Their families need structured and ongoing support to mitigate the risk that a child will be re-trafficked for economic reasons," said the report from Harvard University's FXB Center for Health and Human Rights. The International Labour Organization (ILO) estimates there are 5.7 million child workers in India aged five to 17.

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