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The present study gives us an idea of the concepts related to human trafficking. It also focuses on the outlook of this issue around the globe, in Asia, India and finally in the state of Assam. The study will give a clear description about how as human beings and specially as social beings, we tend to turn away from such issues thus alienating ourselves from it. But in one or the other way, we are all a part of it. Asian Countries along with other Third World Countries have remarkably provided human beings to be sold out as commodities for any form of work at the cheapest price. They have forever gained the title of ‘Source Countries of Human Trafficking’. In India, the foremost reason for the existence of this issue is severe Poverty along with lack of resources, social insecurity, discrimination on the basis of gender, caste, class, social exclusion, lack of governance and its outdated policies, marginalization, corruption and nexus between police and traffickers, child marriage, unemployment, preference of marriage over education, cheap child labour, selective sex abortions, flawed migration policies during conflicts and lack of awareness. In the year 2015, as per the NCRB report, around 1494 cases of Human Trafficking has been reported in a single year with the highest case of child trafficking- 1317 cases in Assam. This marked the state of Assam with the highest trafficking number in the entire country. With the increase in the number of trafficked victims, this issue has soared as one of the most dangerous crimes with no proper authentication, awareness and scrutiny.

Human Trafficking, Source Countries, Global, India, Assam