64 Rights of Women and Children CHAPTER 7 A] Trafficking in Women and Children 1) Trafficking in Women and Children: Manual for the Judiciary 7.1 Trafficking in women and children, both male and female, is a grave violation of several human rights and there is great need to deal with this problem in a comprehensive way. In this context, the Department of Women and Child Development (DWCD), Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India approachied the Commission with the proposal that a Manual be prepared, under the joint aegis of the Commission and the DWCD, for use of the judiciary.It was stated that a collaborative venture of this kind would carry special weight. A Committee was accordingly constituted under the Chairmanship of Smt. Justice Sujata V Manohar, with a representative each of the DWCD, Ministry of Home Affairs, National Commission for Women, UNICEF, UNIFEM, Lawyers Collective and Joint Women's Programme to work out the structure and the details of the Manual. Two meetings of the Committee were then held, one at the Commission's headquarters in New Delhi on 11 September 2001 and the other at the National Law School of India University (NLSIU) in Bangalore on 22 February 2002. Based on the discussions held, the NLSIU has been commissioned to draft the Manual. NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION