On 31 May, Jaffer Latief Najar successfully defended his PhD thesis examining anti-trafficking practices in India.
He focussed on the position, experiences, demands and agency of marginalized individuals and communities who are targeted by anti-trafficking interventions.
In his research, Jaffer Latief looked into the role of intersecting social, political and economic power relations in anti-trafficking governance in India.
He contended that anti-trafficking governance policies and practices in India failed to deliver justice to the targeted individuals but instead further marginalizes them by placing them in the margins of society. He recommends some amendements to current to current anti-trafficking policies in a way that delivers justice based on a prioritization of the perspectives of targeted individuals.
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