Violence against women in the transnational sphere

Many  asylum seekers and women refugees are unskilled workers who often perform hazardous labour in  informal urban settings. While access to health care and education is provided by the Government for free, access to livelihoods is still a challenge, specially in urban or semi-urban areas. Many of those women who earn low wages are forced to live in small, overcrowded apartments, with a lack of access to basic sanitation in less developed urban areas. Such factors contribute to poor health conditions and other hygienic issues. Language barriers often prevent their ability to gain access to health care, education and the judicial system. Despite improvements in police procedures and criminal laws, asylum seekers and women refugees continue to voice safety concerns, because they are frequent targets of attacks and harassment by employers, their landlords and community members in public and private places.

The trafficking of women and girls from India was reported as widespread. Lot of disadvantaged women from minority groups, such as scheduled castes and tribes and the backward castes  usually become the main victims. Unskilled young women are allegedly given false work promises, resulting in forced domestic slavery in foreign countries. Those women who are trafficked and forced into prostitution cannot  defend their rights, and lack the access to rehabilitate and compensate for such criminal acts. Such lack of protection
and prioritization of the problem by the State has intensified the violence committed against them by criminals or those involved in trafficking practices. The involvement of State officials in human trafficking was also reported as a big concern. The Immoral Traffic
Act, of 1956 and its amendments are more directed at safeguarding public moral than combating trafficking in line  Especially for Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime.