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convening two-day State level Consultations, one day with NGOs and the
police, and the other with the judicial officers and public prosecutors.
7.15 In addition, it was also proposed that a National Consultation would be
convened to pre-test the draft manual once it was ready. It was further decided
that visits would be made by the project staff of NLSIU to the concerned NGOs
working with sex workers or children of sex workers or child sex workers, state
homes for women and juvenile homes for girls so as to enable them to assess
the magnitude of the problem of trafficking in each of the States proposed to
be studied. During these visits, the project staff would also interact with
advocates and members of the judiciary so as to ascertain their views.
7.16 At the time of writing this report, the NLSIU had convened state-level
consultations with the concerned NGOs, police, public prosecutors and judicial
officers of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Goa and had also collected
information from the judicial officers of these States using the questionnaire
that had been devised. Work on the preparation of the draft manual is well
underway.
3] Sensitization Programme on Prevention of
Sex Tourism and Trafficking
7.17 The Commission, in collaboration with the United Nations Development
Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and the Women's Institute for Social Education,
Mumbai organized a one-day Sensitization Programme on Prevention of Sex
Tourism and Trafficking on 12 January 2003 in Mumbai. The participants
included key administrators, policy makers, lawyers, human rights experts,
senior representatives of hotel and tourism industry and representatives of
non-governmental organizations working in the field, in addition to personnel
of the Commission.
7.18 The primary objective of the programme was to sensitize senior
representatives of the hotel and tourism industry on various issues relating
to sex tourism and trafficking.
7.19 Keeping in view this objective, the programme deliberated on two main
themes: 'Legal Dimensions of Sex Trafficking' and 'Sex Trafficking and Links
with Tourism: Perspectives, Solutions and Challenges'. Participants in the
programme expressed concern that sex tourism and trafficking were organized
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