Barriers to Access

How women's inheritance legal rights in India are undermined in practice, why the quiet reallocation of wealth matters for economic justice, and what it would take to close the gap between law and lived reality.

India has laws against sex trafficking. Strong ones, in fact. The Immoral Tracking Prevention Act prescribes seven years to life imprisonment for perpetrators. The Indian Penal Code criminalizes kidnapping and selling minors into prostitution. Analysis of the policies shaping why India's anti-trafficking laws fail in practice and what the persistence of trafficking reveals about the economic and institutional structures that sustain exploitation is needed. Yet an estimated 20