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A recipe for injustice: India’s new trafficking bill expands a troubled rescue, rehabilitation, and repatriation framework

India’s proposed trafficking in persons bill replicates the flaws of the existing framework. It must be re-written if it is to better the lives of the women it purports to help.

By Vibhuti Ramachandran and Kimberly Walters

/ 30 Jul 2018

A recipe for injustice: India’s new trafficking bill expands a troubled rescue, rehabilitation, and repatriation framework

India’s proposed trafficking in persons bill replicates the flaws of the existing framework. It must be re-written if it is to better the lives of the women it purports to help.

By Vibhuti Ramachandran and Kimberly Walters

/ 30 Jul 2018

Critical reflections on raid and rescue operations in New Delhi

Accompanying a raid and rescue operation poses difficult questions for those involved, pushing the boundaries between victim and non-victim.

By Vibhuti Ramachandran

/ 25 Nov 2017

Critical reflections on raid and rescue operations in New Delhi

Accompanying a raid and rescue operation poses difficult questions for those involved, pushing the boundaries between victim and non-victim.

By Vibhuti Ramachandran

/ 25 Nov 2017

Rescued but not released: the ‘protective custody’ of sex workers in India

Protective homes for women in India are carceral institutions that confine women rescued from the sex trade. Tied to a moralistic agenda of reform, protective homes restrict women’s freedom in multiple ways.

By Vibhuti Ramachandran

/ 18 Aug 2015

Rescued but not released: the ‘protective custody’ of sex workers in India

Protective homes for women in India are carceral institutions that confine women rescued from the sex trade. Tied to a moralistic agenda of reform, protective homes restrict women’s freedom in multiple ways.

By Vibhuti Ramachandran

/ 18 Aug 2015