The Anti-trafficking Campaign of AAI-India focuses on linking grassroots action with campaigns and policy changes at the macro level. Initiatives to combat trafficking of people into marriage, factories, construction sites, sex trade and other worksites are being undertaken in Andhra Pradesh, Delhi ,Karnataka, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. The elements comprising the Campaign are:

The Anti-trafficking Campaign of AAI-India focuses on linking grassroots action with campaigns and policy changes at the macro level. Initiatives to combat trafficking of people into marriage, factories, construction sites, sex trade and other worksites are being undertaken in Andhra Pradesh, Delhi ,Karnataka, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. The elements comprising the Campaign are:

• Strengthening peoples' organizations: We are partnering with local NGOs and community based organizations (CBOs) to ensure that people are aware of their rights as they move to work from one place to another. Sensitization workshops are held with community members to make people aware of issues related to safe migration e.g. the prospective employee and her family must know the address where she is going to work and how much she will be paid. Community groups also concentrate on building mechanisms to ensure that those who have been trafficked are able to return home safely. This is followed by measures to ensure that women who had been trafficked are not isolated but are able to fit in mainstream community activities. The Campaign focuses on the rights of women to live and work in the community. REFLECT is used as a tool for empowerment and analysis within communities.

• Prevention, repatriation and reintegration through peoples' organizations: AAI-India's approach to trafficking is to promote safe migration for people, especially women, both within India and across borders. We are questioning the notion of `illegal migration' and assert that people have a right to migrate for livelihoods. Poor people are often reduced to desperation in their search for livelihoods and therefore, vulnerable to exploitative `employment' practices like forced labour, long hours of work, non- payment of just wages and different forms of physical and sexual abuse.An innovative approach to address the issues of repatriation and social reintegration of trafficked women and girls has been the creation of Self Regulatory Boards by Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee (DMSC), an organization of sex workers. Dedicated to the goal of ensuring the rights of sex workers, DMSC believes that no woman or girl should be forced into the sex trade. In their attempts to create a violence free atmosphere in sex work, DMSC is actively engaged in repatriation and social reintegration efforts for trafficked women and girls. The Self Regulatory Boards have members from both civil society and the sex worker community and they are also active in working to prevent trafficking.

• Networking with elected representatives and state agencies: We believe that different arms of the state are responsible for protecting the rights of trafficked persons. Agencies like the Border Security Force (BSF), police, local governments and the judiciary play an important role in addressing issues related to repatriation and social reintegration of trafficked persons. The role of state agencies during `rescue' of trafficked persons is often controversial. We dialogue with state agencies to bring in a climate where `rescue' does not violate human rights.
  
  
• Linking with other campaigns at local, national and international levels: The processes of globalization are increasing the demand for cheap labour. Our AT Campaign across the country links with various social movements that are questioning this market driven paradigm of globalization. We are involved in processes like Peoples' Caravan for Justice and Sovereignty, International Campaign to End Violence against Women and Girls, Campaign for Right to Food and Work to draw attention to women's right to mobility, safe working conditions and livelihood security.
  
  
• Promoting the Rights of Girls: Adolescent girls are vulnerable to trafficking because of their low social value. Our Campaign focuses on the Right of Girls to Self-determination, Right to Education for girls, and issues of Early Marriage and Dowry.
  
  
• Advocacy for policy reform at state, national and international level: Existing laws like Immoral Trafficking Prevention Act (ITPA) and Foreigners Act do not address the issue of rights of trafficked persons and particularly the survivors of cross border trafficking. Law reform and advocacy towards a new anti-trafficking law is one of our major concerns. We have undertaken inter-country initiatives with Bangladesh to influence policy related to safe mobility between India and Bangladesh .