RIGHTS OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN of a manual for the use of the judiciary on Trafficking in Women and Children for Commercial Sexual Exploitation. That committee, which met under the Chairmanship of Justice (Smt.) Sujata V. Manohar, and comprised representatives of the Department of Women and Child Development (DWCD), Ministry of Home Affairs, National Commission for Women, UNICEF, UNIFEM, Lawyers' Collective and the Joint Women's Programme, recommended that the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore be commissioned to prepare the manual. 7.13 The NLSIU, accordingly, prepared a draft outline of the manual which was discussed in a meeting of the committee that was convened by the Commission on 15 April 2002. In that meeting, it was decided that the NLSIU, in preparing the manual, should keep in mind that its objectives should be to: ● sensitize the judges on issues related to trafficking as a whole; ● sensitize the judges on how women and children experience law and related support services in order to enable them to take proactive decisions which would be most beneficial to the victim in a given case; ● study and critically analyze the experiences of the victim in various institutions established for the purpose; ● study and critically analyze the trends in judicial decisions and the law in cases related to trafficking, so as to gain an insight into the factors affecting the decision-making process and the gaps therein; ● critically study the mode and manner in which the victim finally arrives before the Court to give testimony before the judge, and to draw parallels with other cases before him/her (this should be trend-specific in relation to particular geographical areas); and ● analyse the experiences of the victims in various institutions. 7.14 In the light of these objectives, it was decided that, for the purpose of drafting the manual, information would be collected from the following ten States, namely, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Orissa, Tamil Nadu, Goa, Maharashtra, Delhi, Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh. Further, the proposed methodology for drafting of the manual would be two-fold: ● collecting information from judicial officers in the ten identified States through a mail-questionnaire, so as to assess their understanding of issues surrounding trafficking; ANNUAL REPORT 2002-2003 ... ... 89 ... ... ..