IGNOU launches course in Anti-Human Trafficking with home affairs ministry
New Delhi: The Indira Gandhi National Open University IGNOU), in partnership with the Ministry of Home Affairs, has launched a Certificate Course in Anti-Human Trafficking. The purpose of the course is to accelerate the process of sensitization, awareness and training of law enforcement officials and other stake-holders like rosecutors, Government Departments and non-government organizations. Launching the course here today, Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram suggested that those in the police forces should mandatorily enroll in the course. He also suggested that police forces should include more women officers who can serve as anti-human trafficking officers some time in their career . The IGNOU Vice Chancellor V. Rajashekharan Pillai said that this is a unique programme which has been launched on the Human Rights Day. Trafficking in persons for various purposes such as commercial sexual exploitation, forced labor, domestic servitude, begging, and public sport etc. is an organized cri...