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4)
Repatriation and Reintegration
• lyce effective action to ensure safe and voluntary return of trafficked
women to their home/communities.
• Suggest measures/programmes to facilitate voluntary repatriation of
trafficked women into their chosen commimities.
• Provide support to NGOs that have developed programmes to assist the
safe repatriation and reintegration of trafficked women.
• Suggest provision of education, skills training and employment assistance
to trafficked women in order to prevent re-trafficking.
• Suggest suitable measures for recovery of women subjected to violence
including sexual harassment at the work place.
6.20 It is believed that the designation of the Focal Point, with the terms of reference
indicated above, will greatly strengthen the capacity of the Commission to deal
coherently with issues relating to the human rights of women, including the vexed
question of trafficking, which is increasingly menacing the lives of women and
children in this country, as indeed. In other parts of the world.
D] Combating Sexual Harassment of
Women at the Work Place
6.21 In the course of the year under review, the Commission received a nmnber of
complaints alleging sexual harassment at the work place. It therefore considered it
essential not only to deal with the individual complaints and provide redressal in
those instances, but also to take up the issue of sexual harassment at the work place
more broadly, as it constituted an unacceptable and too frequent violation of human
rights that had to be addressed comprehensively.
6.22 In particular, the Commission observed that the guidelines issued by the
Supreme Court in its landmark judgement in the case ofVishaka vs. State of Rajasthan
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