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Strengthening Anti-Human Trafficking Systems in India: A Longitudinal RTI and Field-Based Inquiry into AHTU Functionality (2010–2025).

Over the last fifteen years, conversations on human trafficking in India have increasingly moved beyond rescue-centric approaches towards broader questions of institutional accountability, access to justice, survivor protection, and long-term systems response. At a time when trafficking patterns are becoming increasingly interstate, networked, digitally facilitated, and intertwined with migration and labour vulnerabilities, strengthening frontline anti-trafficking systems becomes even more critical. Within this evolving landscape, Anti Human Trafficking Units (AHTUs) were envisioned as specialised institutional mechanisms capable of strengthening investigations, improving inter-agency coordination, ensuring survivor-sensitive responses, and addressing trafficking through a more focused and multidisciplinary framework.

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