India has ratified the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and its two protocols, including the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children, in May 2011. Nationally, there are specific legislations enacted relating to trafficking in women and children including Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act 1956, Prohibition of Child Marriage Act 2006, Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act 1976, Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act 1986, Transplantation of Human Organs Act 1994, and local laws like the Goa Children's Act 2003.

Government of India, National review on Beijing +20, 2015, page 56; CEDAW/ C/IND/4-5 para. 29; A/HRC/WG.6/13/IND/1 para. 35.

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