Imphal, Oct 10 (IANS) Manipur emerged as a source and transit for human trafficking in the past few years, the Manipur State Commission for Women (MSCW) said here on Friday.

The MSCW said that the concept of human trafficking deals with an act of recruiting, transporting, transferring, harbouring or receiving a person through coercion, deception or abuse of vulnerability for exploitation. Anyone can fall victim to human trafficking.

The most vulnerable people in the context of human trafficking are those minority tribes and communities with little social and legal protection. The majority of the trafficked victims are girls and women, the women’s panel body said.

In view of the growing threat of human trafficking, the MSCW, under the sponsorship of the National Commission for Women, org

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