After Bangladesh, India wants anti-trafficking pacts with Nepal, Gulf states


  • World
  • Wednesday, 07 Oct 2015

NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - India wants to sign agreements with countries like Nepal and the United Arab Emirates to curb human trafficking and improve the rescue and repatriation of victims, a senior home ministry official said on Wednesday.

Kumar Alok, joint secretary at the ministry of home affairs, told an anti-trafficking conference that India and neighbouring Bangladesh had signed an anti-trafficking pact in June and New Delhi was keen to do the same with other nations.

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